Extraction shooters seem to be having their moment of late, but since its quiet early access release date last year, Dark and Darker has been making a splash by taking the “shooter” out of “extraction shooter” and swapping the big screen for the small.
An extraction shooter set in a low fantasy world with no guns to be found is, granted, a compelling pitch. Toss in some sword-and-sorcery gameplay and add a crushingly difficult dungeon that makes the stakes inherent to the genre feel all the more real and you have a recipe for success, as evidenced by the thriving playerbase it’s enjoyed over the past year. Soon, however, it’s going to have an all-new audience: The mobile market.