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Darklands

Prepare yourself to enter Darklands - the first realistic fantasy role-playing game. Leading a band of four adventurers across the sinister landscape of 15th Century Germany, you’ll face the Middle Ages as people believed it to be: land filled with mythical beasts, religious power-mongers, and bloodthirsty robber-knights! Watch savage battles unfold before your eyes! Travel hundreds of miles by land and sea from Frisian Coast to Bohemia, from the alps to Prussia, visiting over ninety cities along the way. Your quest for fame and fortune can take you through raucous city streets and dark mine s

Release date
March 20, 2020
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Developer
MPS Labs
Publisher
Ziggurat Interactive
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Prepare yourself to enter Darklands - the first realistic fantasy role-playing game. Leading a band of four adventurers across the sinister landscape of 15th Century Germany, you’ll face the Middle Ages as people believed it to be: land filled with mythical beasts, religious power-mongers, and bloodthirsty robber-knights! Watch savage battles unfold before your eyes! Travel hundreds of miles by land and sea from Frisian Coast to Bohemia, from the alps to Prussia, visiting over ninety cities along the way.

Your quest for fame and fortune can take you through raucous city streets and dark mine shafts, or from a robber knight’s tower to the terrifying Witches' Sabbath! Get ready for the astonishing wonders of a realistic fantasy adventure in the mysterious Darklands! One of “The Greatest Games Of All Time” according to Gamespot®. Improve each character's attributes and skills as the game progresses. No artificial character classes or levels! Active pause system lets you to freeze the action and give new orders to characters any time you wish.

Throwback Thursday Recommendation We share the earnest reasons that make a classic game so dear to us! Recommended by Judas, Technical Customer Support Specialist at GOG: If you're looking for an RPG that is different from the usual Dungeons & Dragons fare from the early 1990s then look no further.…

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★ 9.2/10GOG · 650 ratings
GOGLast checked November 3, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
This review is written through the lens not of someone who played Darklands back when it first came out and has loved it ever since,…
★ 5 / 5
I came to this game pretty late(around 2001) and had an older PC at the time to run old games. The detail is quite incredible…
★ 5 / 5
Below is an excellent user review by HeadrockBeats. (Used with permission!) It is for the original game, but of course works for the GOG version!…
★ 5 / 5
...promised us Microprose around 1992 - and they delivered ! What a game this is! It believably blends the "real world" with a world, where…
★ 5 / 5
As stated in the title, this is one of the best and most complex RPG titles I have ever played. You got an open-world game…
★ 5 / 5
I've been playing this game since I was 12! Still playing it today, best RPG of all time. For those looking for a tool to…
★ 5 / 5
I bought the original when it came in 7 (3.5) discs. Still have them (along with the original manual, spellbook and map) although I no…
★ 4 / 5
The two main aspects of this game, to me, are its unique setting (at least for a dark-fantasyish RPG) and the difficulty to master it.…

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★ 5 / 5
Best throw back game. I played this game back when it came out. Great game.
★ 5 / 5
Great game, a very immersive experience. The graphics are from the sone age, but if you can overlook that, you'll never regret trying out this…
★ 1 / 5
When ever it quizes me about the symbols for a secuirty check, if i alt tab to the pdf, it will automatically shutdown. do i…
★ 5 / 5
This game came out when I was growing up. It's not easy to figure out. For the time the graphics were great. For newcomers, the…
★ 5 / 5
Funny thing was, that back when I bought it at the time of its release, I didn't appreciate it and returned it. (I had missed…
★ 2 / 5
I'm all about supporting GOG, even more in the case of good old games, but unfortunately this one Steam won for me. I was unable…

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