Dark and Darker removed from Steam as Nexon situation worsens

Steam motion RPG game and Diablo-inspired dungeon crawler Dark and Darker has been faraway from the platform following an alleged stop and desist letter from Japanese-South Korean writer Nexon.

This comes within the wake of a collection of backwards and forwards allegations between the 2 firms. In abstract, Nexon accused Ironmace, Darkish and Darker’s builders, of stealing sport code for a challenge entitled ‘P3,’ which is allegedly much like the hit Steam dungeon crawler. Members of Ironmance have been allegedly concerned within the improvement of P3.

Ironmance was fast to deny the allegations, however based on Games Industry.biz was raided by Korean police in early March. On March 25, followers seen that the sport was now not out there on Steam (I’ve verified this, it isn’t), and a subsequent assertion on the sport’s devoted Discord server explains why.

“To all our followers, we have now lately been served a stop and desist letter and DMCA takedown by Nexon relating to Darkish and Darker based mostly on distorted claims,” writes a developer known as ‘Krapst78’. “We’re presently working with our authorized workforce to treatment this difficulty in one of the best method attainable. As a result of delicate authorized nature of this difficulty we have to be cautious with our statements in order to not jeopardize our place.

“We ask on your understanding as we work to get the sport again up as shortly as attainable. Please know that we’ll do all that’s attainable for our followers.”

Dark and Darker exploded on Steam in February following a free demo check, peaking at over 100,000 concurrent gamers per day. Described as “an unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE journey,” you’re challenged with diving deep into the bowels of an historic citadel and retrieving treasure to promote to native service provider. Assume Tomb Raider meets Diablo.

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Within the meantime, although, there are many different nice co-op games which you could check out, and the Diablo 4 beta is up and operating should you fancy crawling by some dungeons.