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Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

Castle In The Darkness is a metroidvania, indie and platformer game developed by Matt Kap, Nicalis and Inc. and published by Nicalis and Inc..
Released on February 05th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,251 reviews of which 959 were positive and 292 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Castle In The Darkness into these genres:

Metroidvania Indie Platformer Action Difficult Adventure Pixel Graphics RPG Retro 2D Great Soundtrack Singleplayer

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP or later
  • Processor: Pentium 4 or higher
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB or higher
  • DirectX: Version 9.0
  • Storage: 120 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Any

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
Old school platforming with some light metroidvania elements (so far!) I played Astalon: Tears of the Earth before discovering this older game made by the same creator. The pixel art is delightful, the music is incredible, the game play is amazing. Worth every penny, and cant wait to see what Matt Kap makes next! (Lovish, theres a trailer, it looks great)
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April 2025
A fun little mapless metroidvania. Has damn good music. Has a bunch of fun references to older classic games. It's only real flaw is it's overreliance on insta-kill traps. Like 98% of my deaths to in this game were to some variety of instant kill trap like spikes or falling spikes you have half a second to react to. Thats not difficulty, thats memorization and tedium. Outside of that the game is just really charming and fun.
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March 2025
Very fun challenging indie metroidvania! You control a soldier/knight that can attack pretty fast and you fight enemies and bosses that are fairly easy to figure out. There's also some pretty tight platforming involved as you make your way to the end of the game, collecting weapons and armor along the way. 9/10 Game.
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Oct. 2024
Un fin de semana bien aprovechado por un bajo precio. Si te toco la epoca de jugar en un nes este es tu tipo de juego. Muy sencillo y con una dificultad adecuada, veo muchos comentarios diciendo que el plataformeo ocupa mucha precision pero siendo alguien que juega desde principios de los 90s no me parece, no es para nada injusto como muchos juegos de esa epoca y el control se siente pulido no como los falsos juegos "dificiles" (volgar the viking cough cough) que centran su dificultad en controles mal diseñados.
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Sept. 2024
The lack of map and the high precision in the platform can turn people off, but the game is REALLY good and severely underrated. Solid metroidvania.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Castle In The Darkness is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Castle In The Darkness is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Castle In The Darkness received 959 positive votes out of a total of 1,251 achieving a rating of 7.35.
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Castle In The Darkness was developed by Matt Kap, Nicalis and Inc. and published by Nicalis and Inc..

Castle In The Darkness is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Castle In The Darkness is not playable on MacOS.

Castle In The Darkness is not playable on Linux.

Castle In The Darkness is a single-player game.

Castle In The Darkness does not currently offer any DLC.

Castle In The Darkness does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Castle In The Darkness does not support Steam Remote Play.

Castle In The Darkness is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Castle In The Darkness
9.99€
7.4
959
292
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Online players
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Developer
Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.
Publisher
Nicalis, Inc.
Release 05 Feb 2015
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