Castle In The Darkness
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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Developer: Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc. Publisher: Nicalis, Inc.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG
Languages: English
Tags: Metroidvania (60), Indie (46), Platformer (45), Action (40), Difficult (38), Pixel Graphics (36), Adventure (34), RPG (29), Retro (27), 2D (25), Great Soundtrack (15), Singleplayer (11)
Category: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing
Release date: Feb 5, 2015
Price: $9.99
Score rank: 91% Userscore: 76% Old userscore: 76% Metascore: 76%
Owners: 100,000 .. 200,000
Ownership data: 2026-11-11 (UTC)
Followers: 6,460
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 2
Playtime total: 05:46 (average) 05:46 (median)
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