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Discover a new breed of Action-RPG game powered by an enhanced version of the Source™ Engine by Valve. Set in the Might & Magic® universe, players will experience ferocious combat in a dark and immersive fantasy environment. Swords, Stealth, Sorcery. Choose your way to kill.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is a rpg, first-person and action game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Ubisoft.
Released on October 25th 2006 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 10,764 reviews of which 9,813 were positive and 951 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Dark Messiah of Might & Magic into these genres:

RPG First-Person Action Fantasy Swordplay Dark Fantasy Adventure Magic Classic Singleplayer Stealth Multiple Endings Medieval Action RPG Story Rich Atmospheric Gore Immersive Sim Hack and Slash Multiplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
Minimum: AMD Athlon™, Pentium® 2.4 GHz, 512MB RAM, 128MB video card, 7GB HDD Space, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

Recommended: AMD Athlon™, Pentium® 3.0 GHz, 256mb dx9 video card, 7GB HDD Space, Windows XP, Mouse, Keyboard, Internet Connection

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Feb. 2025
Better than Avowed. But seriously, a good game for its time. With the current state of modern games, I'm playing old games instead and keeping my money in the bank.
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Feb. 2025
Well what can I say about this game that hasn't already been discussed. It's a game made by the ImSim legends Arkane Studios in a time where they were still finding their own footing. The basic gameplay that's happening here is an experiment in creative melee/magic combat with a Might&Magic setting. It's not fully refined, but that's probably because this is 2006 and it had to be finished at some point. It makes sense then that this game for it's ideas and their implementation would end up a Cult Classic, albeit not very influential outside of it's own circle. A game very famous for it's kick and physics based fatalities that is hard to recommend without mentioning various caveats. So, let's go with a few goods and bads for simplicity's sake: The Good: 1)THE KICK - a tool that you start with and the game makes sure to teach you about when you encounter your first enemy. Arcane wanted the game to use a lot of the versatility of the Source engine and Havok physics to make a very unique combat system. This one tool makes the game endlessly creative and pushes the player, in a good way, to try to experiment on every combat encounter. How it works: You kick to stun an enemy. If that enemy is near: a ledge, spikes, fire or any insta-kill zone they will get comically ragdolled with speed toward that thing and killed instantly. Nothing quite like kicking an orc off a cliff. 2)The leveling system. As a deeply imsim inspired game, the story will award you skill points to be used in the skill tree after you complete various objectives. There are no levels per se in the game. There are a lot of builds that can be done. 3)The melee combat. Satisfying enough and the animations are great. You also get a cool Adrenaline mode with enough hits. And melee combat also includes picking up a barrel and throwing it into a guy to knock him out. 4)The frost and telekinesis spells. Absolute bangers to transform combat encounters into puzzles. 5)The rope bow. If any of you has played an open ended sandbox game with a grapling hook, Dishonored, Prey or THIEF, you know. Wish it was used in a more sandbox style instead of semi-scripted puzzles. 6)The story. It's pretty good and some choices do matter. 7)Xana 8)Xana The mediocre: 1)The spell system. Most spells are really boring outside of the above mentioned ones. This really is a Might and Magic game, haha. 2)Stealth. It's not really relevant ever, and a bit obtuse despite having an indicator in the middle of the screen. It's half-implemented. 3)Burglary. I love a skill that's only used for secrets and literally just gives me a lockpick. 4)THE JANK. As an early Arkane game, that is mid-2000s and in the source engine, one would expect a certain ammount of jank that is happening in this game. That is not even close to 5% of the sheer level of jank that is in this game. However, not once will you get softlocked or have annoying bugs happen to you, at most some questionable design. And it's excused since it was trying to punch way above what was possible at the time with it's ideas. Let's call it the funny and harmless type of jank. Vaulting and platforming are very jank. Jump to a ledge ->Mrghh, Mrghh, Mrghh, Mrghh-> DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH->Black Screen The Bad: 1-5)THE CRASHES. Oh boy, this game was not stable at release and unless we get a full source code distribution, it won't get better... or worse. There is one fix that would let the game use 4GB RAM instead of 2, but that reduces around 20% of the crashes. The game will crash and you will come to treat it as a normal occurence. It will crash if you try and softlock yourself, corrupting your last save(doesn't matter, you have quicksaves and the autosaves come very often). It will crash with any overlay. It will crash if the hour is 18:34 PM. It will crash if you ever visited Europe in june. It will crash in 5 colours at the same time. And... it will crash because it wants to. 6)Some Pseudo Boss-Fights are a bit obtuse and result in you being 1-2shot way too many times. THOSE DAMN GOBLINS........ GET AWAY FAST, FIND SOME PLACE TO HIDE NOW......... "Quest Updated: Kill The Pao Kai." All in all a fun experience, especially with the price you can get it at nowadays. It's almost free when it's on sale. Thoroughly recommended. Also Xana is best girl.
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Nov. 2024
Genuinely the most fun combat in a video game i've seen so far. The horrible story makes it 20x better. Truly a junk masterpiece
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Sept. 2024
Amazing game! A tip: to run it on modern systems, use these commands on launch options = -width 1920 -height 1080 -dxlevel 90 -heapsize 2097152 -novid +datacachesize "128" , width and height are you monitor resolution.
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July 2024
the game is kinda broken you need to do 2 things download the patch to update the game to work on windows 10/11 and put this in the games launch property on steam for the game -width 1920 -height 1080 -dxlevel 90 -heapsize 2097152 -novid +datacachesize "128" the game is great fun for a source game
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic received 9,813 positive votes out of a total of 10,764 achieving a rating of 8.86.
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was developed by Arkane Studios and published by Ubisoft.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is not playable on MacOS.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic is not playable on Linux.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic does not currently offer any DLC.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic
4.99€
8.9
9,813
951
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Arkane Studios
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Release 25 Oct 2006
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