About This Game

The Tree Provides, The Tree Protects, The Tree Prevails!

Dark Switch is a vertical survival city builder set in the boughs of a gigantic tree. Defend your leafy home against the perils of the creeping fog by managing light and flame.

• Gather resources, research technologies, and send pioneers to explore the ruins of those who came before: discover their secrets and doom.  

• Set in a world of folk horror and creeping dread, DarkSwitch blends vertical city-building, tower defense, and exploration into a unique strategic experience.

• Navigate a stunning, dangerous, dark fantasy world enriched by cinematic cutscenes and an atmospheric soundtrack from Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka!

Build your city upwards, utilizing both trunk and bough.

• Limited horizontal space requires a strategy; construct zip lines and stairways to connect your growing settlement layers.

• Manage raw and processed resources, production facilities, and citizen morale, while fortifying defenses to withstand fog's creeping chaos.

Fog drives your citizens to madness and conceals stalking terrors.

• Fight back by illuminating paths, crafting light-powered weapons, and mastering the raw energy of Solium.

• Push back the gloom and save your nation.

Send scout detachments into the misty unknown to chart new airship routes. 

• Establish far-outposts, and excavate rare resources and artifacts.

• Encounter strange and lethal creatures lurking in the fog.

• Uncover the remnants of an ancient civilization.

Shape your citizens' destiny through morally complex decisions.

• Witness various dramatic storylines.

• Navigate choices where even small actions can spiral into grim consequences.

• Campaign Mode: 20+ hours of single-player, story-driven gameplay with quests, branching narratives, and high-stakes choices.

• 80+ unique buildings for full tree city customization.

• 11 resource types: balance raw and processed goods to survive.

• 4 technology levels to advance and unlock new growth possibilities.

• 200-meter-tall tree that serves as the foundation for your city.

• Atmospheric soundtrack composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).