First of all, I loved this game. I was completely hooked after I discovered it 2 weeks after EA Release through a friend. I couldn't get off it and the core mechanics were and still are pretty fantastic. I'm new to this genre, and it's captivated me completely. I've never played Dark and Darker, but many players come from it, as it's the first game in this genre, and this appealed far more to me because of how much more refined it is and seemingly the QoL in comparison. However that is now where the good things stop.

It's one of three scenarios;

- The devs were never prepared to keep on top of this game, empty promises, broken communication, confusing patches and seemingly zero anti-cheat/teaming prevention. A tiny list of bans each day, when most mid-high tier games are full of organised teaming groups.

- The devs only ever saw this as a quick cash-grab. They have made A LOT from this, and even lowered themselves to the point of releasing Minecraft knock-off skins into a medieval dark dungeon game??

- The game is never reaching Season 1 and will probably just vanish or shutdown. We had the pre-season update 6 weeks ago, with talks of the season 1 starting very soon after. Zero communication since, and tons of leaked organised teaming groups with suspicious connections to devs for RWT.

Main streamers and advocates for the game, trying to rally around to get some communication from the devs, and instead most are now banned in-game for having to resort to trying to sort the teaming issue out themselves. The game is basically dead unfortunately and they've just banned the last remaining biggest streamer without warning and communication. Breaking their own ban-progression offence path.

Such a massive shame, but avoid this game and definitely don't sink any money into it. It'll just get taken by Chinese and Russian organised teaming discords, if you want proof of this, watch it on YouTube, I'm sure you'll find it.

"But its free" Sorry, time is expensive. Rather buy something good.

dark and darker but slightly worse