The recent hit Dark and Darker was removed from Steam

In February, when the event "Games to Be" was held, the demo version of Dark and Darker gathered almost two million audience with a peak load on the servers of a hundred thousand users. The success of the Ironmace studio was short-lived: first, the developers deleted screenshots and trailers from the store, and then the entire page disappeared, although it is still present on the SteamDB site with statistics. Let's find out what happened to one of the most promising projects of the genre.

As it turned out, the Ironmace team is currently engaged in litigation with Nexon - the company accused the authors of the unusual action for stealing materials from the as yet unreleased P3 project. Defendants told the public that they are busy solving the problem and hope for a happy outcome of the case, and that the game was removed due to receiving a DMCA warning. No one wants to take unnecessary risks. As for the plaintiffs, they accuse former employees of misappropriating presets. It's also known that the police have already searched the office of Ironmace, but the custodians of the law could not find any evidence. Now when you try to open Dark and Darker in Steam you are redirected to the main page of the store.

Recall that the game offers Escape from Tarkov-style combat. You need to create a character, then go alone or with partners to the ruins of the fortress to take out as much valuables as possible. The death of a character leads to the loss of all the loot, and oppose the heroes on the map, not only monsters controlled by AI, but also knights and mages belonging to other users.