Dark and Darker is slowly gaining players
Last wipe the game hit a max of 11 379 players the Sunday three days after wipe. This past Saturday the game hit 11 958 players, more than 10 days after wipe.
Perhaps more notably, the game is retaining players better than it has been. The past 13 days since wipe the game has steadily had 24 hour peaks above 10k players. Last wipe the player count dropped below 10k after four days.
Last time the game was stable at around this level was in October 2025, after players had dropped off from the new season which started mid-September and reached a brief high of nearly 17 000 players. Before that, the game hovered at around 4 000 players from July to August 2025 (mini-wipe August 26th).
Source: https://steamdb.info/app/2016590/charts/#6m
Note that this only shows players on Steam and not players using Blacksmith, Ironmace's own launcher.