Darkstone Restoration brings the classic action RPG back to modern PCs with improved stability, compatibility, controls, readability, and quality-of-life improvements — while preserving the spirit of the original game.
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DarkStone Restoration brings Delphine Software's beloved 1999 action RPG back to modern PCs, rebuilt by Paul Cuisset, creator of the original. This isn't a remake. It's a restoration: the same merciless combat and hand-crafted gothic atmosphere, made to feel right on today's hardware without losing what made it special.
Built by a core team of four, Darkstone arrived in 1999 as one of the first action RPGs to bring the genre fully into 3D. A quarter of a century later, its creator returns to rebuild it single-handedly, and give Darkstone the version it always deserved.
Long ago, the corrupt monk Draak turned against Kaliba, goddess of life and nature, and reshaped himself into a dragon to drown the world in darkness. The only thing that can stop him is the Time Orb, forged from Kaliba's tears and shattered into seven crystals scattered across the four lands of Uma. Recover the crystals, rebuild the Orb, and descend into Draak's lair to end his reign.
Build your champion from eight characters across four classes : warrior, mage, thief and priest , each with its own strengths, combat style and feel.
Grow your arsenal and spellbook as you adventure: dozens of weapons, spells and talents to discover.
Dungeons, quests, monsters and loot are randomly generated, and five difficulty levels keep the challenge alive. No two descents are ever the same.
Buddy mode. Darkstone always let you raise two heroes and switch between them. Now hold a single button to take direct control of your companion mid-fight, reposition them, aim their spells, chain a combo, then release to hand them straight back to the AI. Coordinate both heroes in the very same fight, something the original never allowed.
Shared-world couch co-op. The original only offered networked play, with two separate worlds and two inventories. The Restoration adds brand-new couch co-op: one world, one save, two players on the same adventure. A second player drops in to control your companion whenever they like, and drops out just as easily. Playing remotely? Steam Remote Play Together has you covered.
Legacy mode. A dedicated mode that restores the authentic 1999 look and feel for purists.
Native 64-bit modern-Windows build with improved stability, modern displays and resolutions, borderless windowed mode and a configurable frame-rate cap.
First-class controller support across every screen: auto-targeting, target cycling and lock, DualSense.
Reworked spell system with a quick-access spell bar, plus deep inventory quality of life: automatic gold pickup, optional auto-sort, quick-equip, item gifting and more.
Clearer fonts and HUD, readable quest journal and map, and modern lighting and effects: dynamic shadows, SSAO, bloom, procedural grass and tunable volumetric fog.
DarkStone Restoration launches in Early Access with its restored solo campaign, fully playable from start to finish. Here is what's waiting for you today:
The complete solo campaign: recover the seven crystals, rebuild the Orb and face Draak.
Eight heroes, four classes, randomized dungeons and quests, loot and five difficulty levels.
Buddy mode, shared-world couch co-op and Steam Remote Play Together.
Legacy mode.
The modern 64-bit build, full controller support, modernized rendering and interface comfort described above.
Steam Achievements, leaderboards and stats.
Early Access continues with you. Here is the direction of the project, guided by your feedback. This is a plan, not a fixed schedule: priorities and pace may change.
Phase 1: gameplay and gamepad bug fixes, co-op improvements, performance optimization.
Phase 2: up to 4-player online multiplayer.
Phase 3: a new Quest Editor, built in the spirit of the original tool.
Phase 4: balancing.
Phase 5: new content based on your feedback, including new restoration quests, and localization into more languages.
Wishlist DarkStone Restoration to be notified the moment it launches and follow the restoration as it grows.
Sharpen your blade. Light a torch. The dungeons are waiting.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian, German*, Spanish - Spain, Swedish*languages with full audio support
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Чистейшая ностальгия, одна из любимых игр детства. Авэ Paul Cuisset за работу как над оригиналом, так и над ремастером! Все запускается и работает из коробки. Разрешение подтянуто даже для 2к, текстурки причесаны, трава - чистейший некстген. DarkStone, пожалуй, никогда не выглядет так хорошо. Управление на геймпаде немного не интуитивное, но на удивление приятное. Купил в ночи и на несколько часов растворился в игре - 9 недосыпов из 10. С удовольствием вернусь, чтобы допройти и перепройти! Стоит заметить, что несмотря на отсутствие в релизе русской локализации, язык довольно прост - едва ли возникнут непреодолимые проблемы. The Dark Stone will shine! - легчайше отдал стартовые 1500 золотых музыкантам на главной площади :)
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I’m not someone that played this until the the early access was out I had heard of the game but never got round to playing it. I ended up playing the demo for around 5 hours before buying and now a further 10+ more can honestly say it’s a nice surprise simple in a lot of ways like Diablo 1 but addictive I actually think I prefer it over Diablo 1 tbh. The developer is very responsive in the discord and on steam very open to suggestions asked for a hardcore mode and after a few days it was included. Overall feels like an absolute steal for the price has a good amount of replay with different quests and difficulty’s even possibly speed runs and I will definitely be playing it a lot happy to discover it in 2026!
The controls are super janky and conflict with each other half the time and you cannot change the key bindings which is a serious problem in 2026 even for a "remaster" or whatever this is. The game tells you to hit "B" to open the spellbook but B also turns companion potion auto use on and off. Also if you look in the key bindings it tells you to use ctrl+H to open the spellbook, but it doesn't work correctly, you have to press and hold the keys to keep it open, that is kinda trash if you are trying to use the spellbook or assign hotkeys to spells. Overall there is just a lot of jank going on and almost no user control/editing to be had. Otherwise the game is decent giving it a 5/10 mostly because the jank and lack of ability to change/fix the keybinds/controls
While the game is great and still fun to play, for some reason, the performance is not that great. I'm playing at 4K and struggling to get more than 50 fps in some areas, while in others I get around 120, but it's never constant. It's all over the place. Not sure if it's the grass or fog but it shouldn't be this heavy on performance on an RTX 5090. I still recommend the game, I just hope that this is fixed eventually.
Very good improvement since the 1999 version from Playstation. Love to play it. So far no problem found.
they did a good job updating the game.
The ultimate DarkStone experience I've been begging for!
Great game, upscaled and working out of the box for modern systems. All that is missing now is the Multiplayer option and the editor so we can make our own journeys. I love this game it's just so fun regardless what age I play it at, I feel the games aesthetics aged like fine wine.
I Recommend it because it is Darkstone. With how it gets used, not a fan of AI-generated/upscaled, as that is what it feels like in some aspects here & there. If it isn't, glad to be wrong, just some UI feel 'off', for example, the blond fighter & the female thief look weird compared to the original in the UI aspect. Sincerely looking forward to when the cooperative / multiplayer implementation gets re-added, excited for that in particular. Will be watching how this game comes along; always been a fan of Darkstone & as such, already bought others the game too to support development.
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