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Darkest Hunter

Darkest Hunters is a good game (even with some misspelled text and odd streaks as noted) and provides plenty of play time for the price.
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50%Game Brain Score
story
gameplay, grinding
44% User Score Based on 63 reviews
Critic Score 68%Based on 3 reviews

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Darkest Hunter is a single player and multiplayer casual role playing game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes. It was developed by ECC GAMES S.A. and was released on September 27, 2017. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and neutral reviews from players.

Choose your hero, grab your weapon, learn new spells and ... HUNT! Eliminate every nasty beast you encounter, collect loot and find the rarest, as well as the best equipment!

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44%
Audience ScoreBased on 63 reviews
story5 positive mentions
gameplay6 negative mentions
  • Engaging match-3 puzzle RPG with a large map, many quests, and over 250 gear items to collect and upgrade.
  • Pixel art visuals provide a nostalgic old-school fantasy feel, complemented by decent sound effects and music.
  • Boss fights introduce some strategic challenge and break the repetitiveness of regular levels; multiplayer mode and achievements add extra content.
  • The game is a direct mobile port with clunky controls not well adapted for PC, including lack of keyboard support, no zoom, and awkward camera movement.
  • Gameplay is repetitive and grind-heavy, with weak enemy AI, bland story and characters, and many design flaws leftover from the mobile version such as unbalanced economy and frustrating UI.
  • Several bugs and progression blockers exist, including stuck levels and poor optimization, making the overall experience frustrating and tedious especially for non-casual players.
  • story
    32 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story is generic and minimal, featuring 13 characters with distinct backstories but identical gameplay roles, resulting in a largely cosmetic difference. The narrative lacks depth and memorable content, failing to engage players beyond basic fantasy RPG tropes, and many found the plot forgettable and uninspired despite hints at lore. Overall, while the game offers numerous missions, its storytelling falls short compared to genre benchmarks like Puzzle Quest.

    • “There are 13 characters, each with a somewhat long explanation and backstory.”
    • “In "Darkest Hunters," nothing is done to help the story stand out, not even a little bit.”
    • “As for RPG, it doesn't have any decent story.”
    • “The introduction tells a bit of the background story which I forgot 2 minutes later.”
    • “While it's perfectly understandable, though unsurprising, for an RPG to feature a story about heroes in chainmail and wizard hats setting out to defeat the lord of darkness, it's a story that's been told to death.”
  • gameplay
    21 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay combines match-3 puzzle mechanics with roguelike dungeon crawling but is widely criticized for being repetitive, grindy, and lacking meaningful progression or challenge. While boss fights introduce some variation and character growth adds depth, controls feel clunky and the overall experience resembles a slow, mobile-style game that struggles to maintain long-term engagement.

    • “The main gameplay is moving around collecting resources in a match-3 style and fighting monsters you may meet.”
    • “Pleasant and fluid gameplay, difficult fighting and character leveling.”
    • “However, the boss fight brings a change of pace, and the missions associated hint towards interesting boss mechanics.”
    • “The gameplay is grindy and boring, with repetitive mechanics that make it difficult to stay engaged.”
    • “Screen panning and control mechanics are designed for multi-input touch displays, resulting in clunky overall control.”
    • “Extremely repetitive gameplay elements exist, seemingly designed to encourage skipping via microtransactions, such as merging duplicate gear items to increase strength.”
  • grinding
    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is frequently described as repetitive, tedious, and out of place, often required to progress or complete objectives. While some players accept it as part of the experience, many find it boring and lacking challenge, leading to frustration and diminished enjoyment.

    • “Albeit enemy AI is lackluster, grinding is required (oddly) and it feels totally out of place.”
    • “It does hit a point where a ton of grinding will be needed to progress, so if you are a completionist, you've got a fair chunk of time ahead of you.”
    • “However, this game forces grinding and has very weak (or uninteresting) narratives, which are unbearable to me.”
  • graphics
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics feature retro pixel art that appeals to fans of old-school, nostalgic styles but may feel coarse or outdated to others. There are limited options for resolution or graphical tweaks, which can affect the visual experience. Overall, the style is simple and functional, though not particularly polished or customizable.

    • “Good enough pixel graphics with non-annoying sound effects and repetitive music.”
    • “The animation and retro-style graphics were okay, and the large map was both interesting and challenging.”
    • “I'm a big fan of the graphical style of this title as I love pixel art, which gives the game an old-school nostalgic feel.”
    • “A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel 'art' as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”
    • “There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks.”
    • “Coarse graphics.”
  • music
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's music features a single, repetitive track during combat that can become annoying, though the sound quality is good and the soundtrack adequately supports the gameplay without being particularly memorable.

    • “The sound quality is good, especially during battles, and the soundtrack effectively complements the gameplay.”
    • “The game features a single song played throughout, which is a notable aspect of its music.”
    • “Sound and music contribute to the overall atmosphere of the game.”
    • “As for the game itself, it has godawful level design, and it has only 1 track playing nonstop in combat that can easily get annoying (playlist music hype I guess?).”
    • “Did I mention the single song for all the game??”
    • “Good enough pixel graphics, non-annoying sfx, repetitive music.”
  • monetization
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization in Darkest Hunters is criticized for feeling like a cash grab, with the PC version lacking microtransactions but retaining an unbalanced economy originally designed to incentivize in-app purchases. Players find the game stingy with in-game currency and note that repetitive gameplay elements still push the concept of microtransactions, even though none are present on PC.

    • “Darkest Hunters is a mobile app dumped on Steam as if it were a real PC game. It's a cash grab from greedy mobile developers. The game is badly made, badly translated, and a very basic match-3 (Bejeweled ripoff) with some poorly integrated RPG elements.”
    • “Even though diamond rewards have been replaced with extra coins, various prices throughout the game were never scaled and remain set at high points to incentivize no longer available microtransactions.”
    • “Extremely repetitive gameplay elements incentivize skipping via microtransactions, such as merging duplicate gear items to increase strength, which still exist.”
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Darkest Hunter is a casual role playing game with fantasy and dark fantasy themes.

Darkest Hunter is available on Nintendo Switch, PC and Windows.

Darkest Hunter was released on September 27, 2017.

Darkest Hunter was developed by ECC GAMES S.A..

Darkest Hunter has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked Darkest Hunter for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.

Darkest Hunter is a single player game with multiplayer support.

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