The shattered remains of the mother planet Gaia float in stark contrast against the sky on nearby satellite planet, Archos, serving as inescapable evidence of the dark forces surrounding the world. As a lone explorer in the wilderness, you must learn to understand the terrain, natural resources, as well as how to domesticate the local creatures and build a home. You will need to harness and control the magical energy that courses through the planet, or you risk being consumed by the looming darkness that permeates throughout the planet. Every aspect of Dark and Light has been re-imagined, re-worked, and upgraded from the 2004 original. Gaia’s very existence is dictated by primal elemental forces, including wind, earth, water, fire, light, and darkness. These elements course through the world, sometimes clashing and causing earth-shattering changes.
Game Discussion
Steam User 24
sad to see so much potential flushed away especially when all it would need as a small smidge of new content and a good spit shine in the polishing and it would be a legendary game even more so if it calls back to the modding community for player crafted imersive servers like ark has or conan exiles or any other big name in the genre please snail hear the ones who still love this game and resuscitate this gamr
Steam User 33
why did snail games give up on dark and light if they would of kept working on it this entire time it would of surpassed ark and out shined it by far.
dark and light was literally the old fantasy styled open world sandbox everyone was looking for but it looks like they let wildcard bully them into not continueing the development of their game just like atlas.
Steam User 16
This is an insanely good game. The devs abandoned it though and that is why the reviews are actually bad. No it is not barely playable, the game plays perfectly fine and is everything you could want from the genre that it is. If the devs would come back to it would be awesome.
Steam User 14
So I got this game due to Ark. I put lots of hours in this game. I had some fun moments with two available maps. The game however struggles with lots of bugs and empty space. It's been some years since the last update and now in the stage of "abandoned". D&L decided to try making a mobile version. The game had some beta months in 2023, but now gone quiet in 2024. Anyways I decided to click recommend to give the game "Hope" with all the fun I had playing with 700+ hours which likely never ever happen. Likely won't play again unless the dev comes back to this game & fixes it.
Steam User 10
Picked up this game despite the negative reviews, and it's super good. Especially for a game that was Abandoned, This game is very much Playable.
Looks amazing, Plays Amazing, The Questing, Base Building and overall survival aspect of this is really good.
If you are or were a fan of Ark, You will definitely enjoy this game! It's just lacking a Player base.
10/10
BUY IT, Maybe we can bully the devs into updating it! xD
Steam User 7
It's a vast RPG sandbox open world, very hard to get into, you can play it in single player or online, it is free to host your own server or play in single player. If playing alone, definitely requires balancing because otherwise the game is very difficult on default (expect to see Level 120 enemies near the starting area, for exemple)
if you actually give yourself some time to learn, and balance the world for single player (or few players), the game is definitely worth the price if on sale, you can have fun
if you are looking for an easy and super intuitive RPG to play, this is not it, but if you are looking for a vast RPG world, with a lot to see and do, and which requires learning, patience, and some settings tweaking, then give this a shot
Steam User 6
So far, yes, it is enough like Ark for former or even present Ark players to enjoy emmensely.