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.
Hardcore mode. One life, no coming back. When your hero falls, the run ends for good. A permadeath challenge with its own dedicated leaderboards, for players who want every decision to carry real weight.
Legacy mode. A dedicated mode that restores the authentic 1999 look and feel for purists.
Choose your companion's brain. For 25 years, your companion ran one fixed, generic AI. Now you decide how it thinks. Pick a ready-made behavior (tank, mage, skirmish, support) and it plays smart right away, no code. Reshape it to fit your style, or write a whole new one, visually with Unreal-style blueprints or in JavaScript, with live hot reload and a real debugger. Then share your creations on the Steam Workshop, and play with the community's. Every step is optional: most players just pick one.
Automate your quality of life. The same tools can keep your buffs up, drink potions on a threshold, and swap loadouts on a key. They never target, move or fight for you: combat always stays yours.
Lairs and boss hunts. Randomized farming dungeons and named elite bosses, for endless endgame loot.
UI themes. Reskin your HUD, spell bar and spell books, with a built-in editor and Workshop sharing. New Modern theme included.
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.
Hardcore permadeath mode, with dedicated leaderboards.
Legacy mode.
The modern 64-bit build, full controller support, modernized rendering and interface comfort described above.
Steam Achievements, leaderboards and stats.
Scriptable companion AI and quality-of-life automation: ready-made behaviors included (no code), an optional visual and code editor with live hot reload and a debugger, and Steam Workshop sharing.
A modern-play layer. Loot filter, autosave, rebindable controls and more, all optional, so you can also play it exactly like 1999.
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.
You can try many of these features early: join our Discord to get the password and unlock the experimental branch.
Korean, fully voiced, with more languages to follow.
The Abyss. A deep, persistent, branching dungeon that only descends, where every floor has its own twist, down to sealed boss floors.
A new quest editor. Build and share your own quests on the Workshop.
Online multiplayer. The big one. Team up online, each with your own hero.
And everything your feedback shapes along the way.
Try the demo and 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.
DarkStone Restoration costs $10.99 right now.
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The lowest recorded price is $8.79. It's 25% higher right now. It has gone on sale 2 times in the past year, about every 52 days on average. When it goes on sale, the discount is usually around 20%, and the biggest was 20%. This is for reference, based on past price records, and doesn't guarantee future prices.
Recommended: Graphics card Compatible DirectX 11, 2 Go VRAM, Processor Quad-core 3 GHz, 64-bit (Intel Core i5-4460 / AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or better), Memory 8 GB RAM. Minimum: Graphics card Compatible DirectX 11 Feature Level 11.0, 1 Go VRAM, Processor Dual-core 2 GHz, 64-bit, Memory 4 GB RAM. Save your PC specs on Wish9 to compare them with this game instantly.
