Underplayed Gems

The wild darkness (2025)

The wild darkness cover
Developer
popeyed inc
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Free To Play
Rating
4.0 of 5, 126 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 37 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A slow, tense survival game where you cautiously explore a strange world, working carefully to gather resources and knowledge to overcome nightly threats.

mysteriousunsettlingsurvivalexplorationmethodicalrewardingchallenginggrindy

What players say

Players describe it as a relaxing but intense survival game that starts difficult but rewards persistence, allowing you to survive for hundreds of days. It is a port from mobile, supports cross-device play and offline mode, though one player notes there is no cloud save.

Screenshots

The wild darkness screenshot 1The wild darkness screenshot 2The wild darkness screenshot 3The wild darkness screenshot 4The wild darkness screenshot 5

More games like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.