Planned Release Date: Feb 17, 2026

About This Game

Darkward is a short, dark and surreal point-and-click interactive fiction.

Click highlighted links to investigate ruins, tombs, and forgotten shrines, combine items, and uncover fragments of memory and faith in a purgatorial world.

Key Features

• Link-based exploration (point-and-click text adventure)

• Inventory interactions and contextual item use

• Dense, lore-rich gothic fantasy inspired by Dark Souls’ poetics (without the action)

• Steam Achievements + Steam Cloud

Around you now lies a time that does not flow. Your body is heavy, hollow and foreign – seated rigidly with your arms crossed over your chest. You feel no heartbeat. Your lips are cracked and mute, your hands grey and cold. The silence around you is suffocating, as if this world has never known a voice. The chill of the stone bites into your skin like a thousand needles. You feel pain, but you sense it differently, as something distant. Your soul is empty, as empty as your mind and memory.\nSlowly, you rise from the stone. Your limbs crack in the silence, as if they had forgotten how to move. Dust spills from your grey hands, and your muscles obey only under protest. You stand – not as one who lives, but as one who has been commanded to rise.

Rise, Wanderer!

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI tools were used during development to generate initial concept art; all final in-game graphics were then manually redrawn and refined by hand.