Dark Reality
A downloadable game for Windows
An 80s dungeon crawler meets Visual Novels.
Explore dark crypts with classic grid based movement.
Fight warriors that are more of a man that you'll ever be in turn based combat.
Meet lunatic characters and find your princess. She can fix you.
Art by RUMPELSTILTSKIN
The game's future
We're considering wether to continue Dark Reality based on player feedback. If you'd like to see more, show us your interest by leaving a comment and a review! If you want to share some thoughts on how to improve the game, use the Feedback Form.
On Translations
The game was originally written in Italian.
We used a Large Language Model to translate it into other languages.
We reviewed the English translation ourselves, as we're fluent in the language. While we expect the quality to be lower in other languages, we made this decision to allow as many people as possible to enjoy this free demo.
If we decide to continue the project, we plan to work with professional translators to properly localize it.
Download
Install instructions
Simply extract the folder and click on "Dark Reality.exe".
If a bug blocks you, press F5 to reset the scene!
Trigger Warning:
- Strong and offensive language.
- Homophobic language.
- Sexual language.
- Violent language.
- Graphic violence.
Development log
- The games that inspired our dark-fantasy RPG20 days ago
- How the end of the world of Dark Souls inspired our game51 days ago
- The VHS Filter is making people's heads explode56 days ago
- Now in Widescreen! 📺✨57 days ago
- Dark Reality is OUT! + Who we are61 days ago
Comments
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This was absolutely hilarious to play while simultaneously being an engaging, dark fantasy experience, I'm definitely interested in playing a full version of this. Couple recommendations though: (that I'm pretty sure I forgot to mention on my video) please add a volume slider, the music is quite loud at times and honestly I don't know if the music chosen really fits with this style of game. Another thing, I would definitely add a trigger warning on the game itself since not everyone might notice the warning that is on this page. Other than that, great demo overall and I love the art for the characters, items, etc.
Thank you so much for this great video, we had lots of fun watching it (and manageable breakdowns when an untraslated line would come up).
Also thank you for the helpful feedback. I just pushed a new build that includes both the volume sliders and the trigger warning! :)
The breakdowns are a mood, luckily I could actually read Italian (for the most part). Glad you two had fun watching it, it was definitely super fun playing it! Keep up the good work guys!
A very interesting game. The narrative is fantastic. The character is irreverent and a little bit weird, but heck it works.
It's a real promising start!
Truly interesting: the mood is perfect, the story is appealing and the music is catching.
There is much room to improve, but the quality of this demo is excellent: i'd love to see more!
The plot twist got me good!
A little gem. Narratively very interesting, and the mood is fantastic. I can't wait to see how it continues!
Narrative in this game is super interesting, I really liked trying to understand better the MC personality and his past.
There are tons of elements that work as little dots to connect. Unsure where this story will go, but I had lot of fun trying to figure out what's happening, so i'm keen to know more!
Thought provoking, irreverent, narrative game with light RPG mechanics.
Dense atomosphere, the game speaks withouth mincing words, and I love it.
I need more Ombros in my life, give me more Ombros.