I was immediately struck by DARQ ’s score, which completely elevates the game’s tortured dreamscapes and blankets them with creeping trepidation. You wake up in a crumbling, dilapidated house as Lloyd - a pale, skinny boy in a striped shirt and pointed black boots.

ĭARQ doesn’t waste much time plunging you into the story this game is all about atmosphere. The debut title from developer Unfold Games, and published by Feardemic, DARQ: Complete Edition includes the base game’s original seven chapters as well as two additional DLC levels - The Tower and newly-added The Crypt. DARQ: Complete Edition is an atmospheric psychological horror puzzle-platformer following the plight of Lloyd, a boy trapped in a dilapidated house and his own looping nightmares.

So when presented with a game exploring lucid dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality, morbid curiosity made it impossible not to play. I have been having trouble sleeping these past few weeks, often tossing and turning at night and waking up anxious.

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