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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!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Fun and very challenging retro styled platformer”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“Really fun, and not that hard like a bunch of reviews are complaining about. If you've played a few tough platformers you'll have an easy time; I finished with about 150 deaths. You may start to like the game less if you go for 100%; has a ton of backtracking for obscure secrets.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“The game is just way too hard. And punishing at that. Any game that doesn't put a save point before a boss fight is not for me.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · Indie · Platformer · Action · Difficult · Adventure · Pixel Graphics · RPG · Retro · 2D · Great Soundtrack · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://castleinthedarkness.mattkap.net |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP or later Processor: Pentium 4 or higher Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 256 MB or higher DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 120 MB available space Sound Card: Any