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Against Great Darkness
Against Great Darkness is a brick-breaking, bullet hell, roguelite where you play as a pagan trying to escape Hell's maw. Trigger relics by keeping your disks bouncing, experience unique events where you can obtain incredible loot, and battle hellish bosses while always keeping an eye on your disks.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Abandoned EA, the devs are working on another game, make sure to put it on your ignore list. Idea was decent but it has little replayability and zero difficulty. Only buy it at -95% sale.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Still a lot of balancing issues. 1. fetching disks are not rewarding. Sometimes ignoring disks gives a better run. You bounce the disk 3 or 4 times just to scratch the enemy. 2. homing bullets becomes quite OP if you cannot move up and down, but this happens only in like stage…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Game had a great premise and start, but I cannot say it's worth it in any way for being abandonware. 19 months (as of this post) without any updates, and it seems this would be a common occurrence from said dev. Unfortunate, could have been a fantastic full game.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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1.59 Hill of the Skull and Grayscale
This Patch: Hill of the Skull Boss added to violence Grey Scale Added in settings Hit box of pagan tightened up Soter shield now works with all enemy projectiles except Ah Puch's giant laser (its a gi
patch 1.57
Space bar can now select UI elements Pagans now show unlock conditions Invincible enemies have moved around a bit for pestilence to speed up gameplay Ancient serpent hp reduced Telegraph effects are n
Week 1 patch
Bugs fixed: Fixed occasional bug where on death the game freezes Fixed abomination potentially being boss for Pestilence Typos should be fixed Glossary added to menu Udea Pagan now reduced to 15 activ
Against Great Darkness releases into EA April 10th
Against Great Darkness goes live today! The circles of hell await grab your disk and fight off the hellish horde. What to expect: 3 Circles of Hell, Challenging Boss battles, Epic item synergies, Meta
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Bullet Hell · Rogue-lite · Arcade · Shooter · Action · Action Roguelike · 2D · Loot · Minimalist · Rogue-like · Dark (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 22 |
| Official site | https://www.hitregstudios.com/games/AgainstGreatDarkness |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Processor: 1.2Ghz+ Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 512 Storage: 200 MB available space