
Even the very first puzzle is a real noggin-scratcher and one I struggled with. You will spend most of your time fiddling about with these lever-based puzzles, and they’re pretty enjoyable. While in other cases, turning a crank might swap out a room for a completely different environment. Sometimes, it’s as simple as hitting a lever so that a drawbridge shifts to a perpendicular angle letting Lloyd walk up to it and onto the ceiling. Throughout each chapter is a smattering of levers that shift the camera’s perspective or change the layout of a room. The trial and error puzzle-solving nature of games like Limbo and Inside are here, yet there are not quite as many brutal fail states. Players who own DARQ: Complete Edition on Xbox One or PlayStation®4 will also get a free upgrade to the fully optimised, native Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation®5 versions upon their release.It would be easy to undercut that mystery if the gameplay wasn't up to snuff, but thankfully Darq's mechanics are pretty clever.



Owners of the PC version of DARQ will be automatically upgraded to DARQ: Complete Edition for free at launch on December 4. It introduces the most challenging puzzles in the game, never-before-seen mechanics, new achievements, shocking twists, and big surprises. In addition to the base game, DARQ: Complete Edition includes two DLC packs: The Tower, a mysterious structure filled with new puzzles and secrets, as well as The Crypt, the final content expansion of DARQ, twice as big as The Tower.

While exploring the darkest corners of his subconscious, Lloyd learns how to survive the nightmare by bending the laws of physics and manipulating the fluid fabric of the dream world. DARQ: Complete Edition is the complete version of Unfold Games' award-winning spooky puzzle game, DARQ, which looks and feels like something straight out of a Tim Burton film.ĭARQ is a psychological horror that tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare, unable to wake up.
