{"id":35044,"date":"2023-03-28T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:06:57","slug":"dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/news\/dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark &#038; Darker&#8217;s Bizarre Steam Removal Has the Internet Up In Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms_64229210697df-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms_64229210697df-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/dark-darkers-bizarre-steam-removal-has-the-internet-up-in-arms_64229210697df-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular demos during February\u2019s Steam Next Fest was for a game called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vKZll_JKBvk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>Dark and Darker<\/em><\/strong><\/a>: a PvPvE dungeon crawler that let players pick one of six fantasy classes and journey into lost catacombs for gold and glory. Many who played the demo described it as a fantasy version of <strong><em>Escape from Tarkov<\/em><\/strong>, which is high praise given that game\u2019s popularity and influence. But you won\u2019t find <strong><em>Dark and Darker<\/em><\/strong> on Steam now. The game has seemingly been swallowed by a digital black hole. You might think that someone must have a great reason for removing a runaway Steam hit from the platform, but this story is a little stranger than that. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/games\/dark-and-darker-steam-removal-explained-controversy\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most popular demos during February\u2019s Steam Next Fest was for a game called Dark and Darker: a PvPvE dungeon crawler that let players pick one of six fantasy classes and journey into lost catacombs for gold and glory. Many who played the demo described it as a fantasy version of Escape from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35047,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35044\/revisions\/35047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}