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Conquest Dark
Developer Eldritch Sword Games
Experience an ARPG's rapid ascension to power in minutes, packed with savage, survivors-like action and devastating sword & sorcery combat. Perfect your builds through Dark Ritual runs that will decide humanity's future as you battle endless hordes across haunting ruins and cursed kingdoms. From the Steam store page
262 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
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178 positive · 47 negative
95% range 73–84%
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| Steam reviews | 178 | 47 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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37 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,480 of 2,771 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 262 · most liked firstGame has promise and plays well but has a fatal flaw. The end boss is structured completely differently from the rest of the game. To be specific: every other boss pauses the timer and you fight them, then the timer begins counting down again. The final boss instead gives you a timer that just kills you after it elapses. So if your build isn't capable of ultra fast killing a single target it won't work. Builds and playstyle that work on the rest of the game will never be able to complete that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enjoyable until the grind starts, then you will probably uninstall it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is just completely unbalanced against the player in a unfun way. I am pretty sure that viable builds are basically limited to only one or two classes and one set of abilities. If you don't use those specific builds the bosses will be so tanky that even if you are skilled enough to beat them you'll have spend between 5 to 10 or MORE minutes chipping away at single mob. Honestly what is going on with this game? I can kill everything else in under a second but the bosses take FOREVER…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If Halls of Torment is Diablo, then Conquest Dark is Path of Exile: several dozen different systems that you need to interact individually to reach the same purpose, becoming a little bit stronger. It plays very nicely, probably one of the best Vampire Survivor-likes I have played. It has a rather unique system with class mixing that decides which upgrades you can find in a run that I found interesting. The Path of Exile comparison isn't just for saying, this game has a LOT of different…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible balanced. First it looks good but than it shows that the most classes are not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game problem is being unnecessarily grindy and unrewarding. it has no way to speed up the rounds nor the enemy speed or increase the density. you got 45 minute session? too bad you have to wait it out even if you're stronger than your enemies, just gotta wait min by min until the timer runs out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a $15AUD Early Access game by a Solo Dev. I have got 30 hours and enjoyed all of it. I have almost done everything. If you see that price tag and expect AAA live service level of updated then you should smash your head into the wall.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost good, but the dodge this or die markers are super subtle and hard to see when there isn't a horde around you... which there always is. Oh and most of the markers are on the ground so they go under the horde. Further I had one game where the boss spawned red markers, but was in a ritual where the whole map was tinged red, near impossible to see on a clear screen, which this game never has. It's really bad. Its a fun take on the survivors formula, and if the dodge or die was remotely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gravest sind a game can commit is to be boring and generic. You can have a silly story, bad voice acting or janky gameplay, but being boring and generic, nothing saves you from that. The indie scene, unfortunately, can be just as ♥♥♥♥♥♥ as the AAA space, with this being a prime example of another very mobile-y looking clone game in the "survivors" genre. It's Early Access, sure, but it's not the lack of features or skills, etc., it's foundationally flawed. You know what I like about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the worst bullet hells. I am a huge bullet hell fiend but this one is so bad i really cannot recommend it to anyone. (and this is made by asmongold's guys? he would be very dissappointed too if he played it *(. it's very very small so you are forced to grind the same stage over and over for no real goal. save your 10 bucks and buy a blowup hammer and smash yourself in the head over and over - it'll be more fun lol
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →got this from humble monthly and it suprised me how good this game mix the survivors gameplay with the diablo-like theory crafting
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's been a BLAST seeing Conquest Dark do so well! Fingers crossed for our next game @hellclockgame.bsky.social releasing next month! 👀 #IndieGame | #GameDev | #SteamNextFest | #IndieGames
unlabelledView post →Conquest Dark Hits Early Access April 30! ⚔️ Play the updated Steam Next Fest demo now: 🔪 New Thief class 🌫️ New Pale Desolation game mode 📜 New Rune & Scroll system Play the demo, leave us a review, and wishlist to join the fight: otk.to/cd-demo #IndieGame | #SteamNextFest | #Nextfest | #GameDev
unlabelledView post →This game is so unbalanced that i really can't recommend it to anyone. I'll give you a hint: there's very often a situation when you can't kill enemies 'cause you don't deal enough damage and at the same time enemies can't kill you 'cause you're too quick or too well protected! This is complete stalemate! And there are so many more things like this! Keep your money for something better (Vampire Survivors or Deep Rock Galactic Survival).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a bad game but got tedious fast. You'll figure out the systems within an hour or two and realize there's no depth here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the survivorlike ARPG 'Conquest Dark' you start off nude and build up clothing as you go with multi-life mechanics #ConquestDark #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
unlabelledView post →The game was great until it reset my progress one day after closing the game and turning it back on several hours later and losing dozens of hours worth of gameplay. It has reset my progress almost every day I do not play the game and therefore have given up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The main thing that Conquest Dark does differently than the rest of the genre is how it limits upgrade choices based on your character's proficiencies and equipment. This results in an elegant way to avoid the pitfall that many other survivors-like games fall into, where unlocking new equipment makes things feel worse because of how they'll dilute your future runs' upgrade pool. The total variety of upgrades isn't massive, but each class feels distinct, and each primary weapon's limitations…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bullet hell meets crack. it's what the VSurvivor devs play. THIS, is such a good game, on so many levels. pace is its strongest asset. with the single dev's commitment to quality and future updates, (i believe this one). let's not forget the affordable entry fee and promise of future cheevos. a must buy. do yourself the favor. this dev and game, deserves your fun. onward. edit: 11/24 released update with solid communication and play features. how it should be done.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game starts with one of the worse ways I could imaging: Play through X amount of missions to unlock all of the base gameplay mechanics that MIGHT make the game fun to play. Get through that slog? Awesome! Now lets not have anything other than what you played through prior but with a couple new abilities & weapon that are all random. Yes you can build for certain ability unlocks but that is leaving the realm of fun and into a chore. But the build builder! If I have to make a spreadsheet for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just feels not good anymore. not fun at all, just frustrating. to much stats to chase. keep it simpler, more fun. mabe than i will give it a try, but this is just anoying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lamest possible RNG in an arpg. No way to change gear after your selection so the meta is to run around naked on the off-chance you find something of high rarity with perfect stats. If you don't your run is bricked and you start over. I don't get it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IT'S TIME SO HACK AND SLASH! ⚔️ I've been having an incredible time helping with Conquest Dark and I think this game is one you don't want to miss! 🙌🏻 #IndieGame | #GameDev | #SteamNextFest | #NextFest
unlabelledView post →A very slow and very boring game. The bosses are HP sponges that make runs very long, very slow, and very boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After having 200+ hours into the game with everything unlocked, I figured I would return the favor with a review. This game could be a, "relaxing make your build and stand still," watching everyone else crumble to dust type of build or a, "high exhilarating, run to survive, glass cannon," type of build. I've spent so much time trying to min/max this or that to dial into the game, which I couldn't be happier for. It is constantly keeping my mind busy. I have woken up at 2am before with a new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great hidden gem, taking much inspiration from PoE and perfect for playing between leagues. I consider this the best in the genre even, with the easiest buildcrafting due to the amount of deterministic systems and meta progression that really makes sense contrary to some other survivor-likes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looking forward to when this game is finished, but the bones are solid. Currently feels a bit incomplete, but it's a fun gameplay loop.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Conquest Dark releases in only 15 more days! 🗓️ We're going to be showing off some more content you can expect in Steam Early Access when the game launches on April 30th! Come check it out 👇🏻 🔗 Twitch.tv/MadMushroomgg #ConquestDark | #MadMushroom | #IndieGame | #Roguelike
unlabelledView post →When you’ve worked on a fantasy game for years but got that sci-fi itch! Yes, Conquest Dark once had dual-wielded laser swords. Future DLC? …No, not really. But it was kinda sick. 😅 #ConquestDark | #Roguelike | #IndieGame | #Starwars
unlabelledView post →This game has been in open development for years now. It had promise, but as it stands I treat it more as (EDIT: " ̶a̶ ̶s̶c̶a̶m̶ ̶s̶i̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶m̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶a̶b̶a̶n̶d̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶e̶") an unfinished production and not worth it if it were to stay as it is. The game also has a minimal development team. DO NOT BUY if and until it becomes fully released.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way too easy to accidentally turn on autobuilds now. It;s an interesting feature to explore things you wouldn't have tried otherwise but building is like...90 percent of these games. And once you turn it on it goes so fast there's no way to turn it off. So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb. Have an option for "suggested" instead of the game picking so fast you can't even see it. This used to be fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quite unbalanced, builds either destroy enemies without thought, or is a long, tedious slog of doing no damage, with not much in between. Hopefully will improve through early access development, but right now, there's much better survivors games out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, the best “survivor-like” game I've ever played. I don't like spending long minutes traveling across the map to collect important items or being forced to make compromises. None of that here. The pace is good, there's no (or very little) feeling of a slow and boring start to the run like in other games, or of wanting enemies to appear faster. The only negative is perhaps the “final” boss, which not only breaks (in a bad way) the habit that the game has established up to that point,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good variation in the vamipire survivors like genre, could use open/larger maps to get more interesting though (all maps so far have been basically only a small circle).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3.5/10 every level is just fight endless hoards in a different color tiny circle you cant leave slow grind to unlock things outside of levels that cost exponentially more each time you get an upgrade on them to the point where its impossible to upgrade them any more but the game still gives you the option
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Conquest Dark is exactly the kind of game I didn’t know I needed — a dark fantasy, survivors‑like ARPG that fuses fast, satisfying combat with rich progression and world‑shaping stakes. Set in a grim post‑apocalyptic realm where humanity teeters on the edge after the Black Planet’s arrival, you’re thrust into Dark Rituals where every run feels epic and consequential. Mechanics that deliver punchy depth: • Ritual Runs: Every session starts simple, but rapidly evolves into a thrilling power…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good: looks nice, sounds nice, plays nice, and has some interesting mechanics. And the runs dont last forever which is a plus.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine if you could play PoE but in 30 minute increments and feel the same excellent power curve. Perfectly bite sized, tons of extra replay value, very excited to see where this goes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Surprisingly fun, it's like if vampire survivor actually had some gameplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has style. Nice survivors like overall, combat feels good, smooth and engaging, though I had to set the speed to 1.5x for that.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm changing my review to negative... After 7 hours I'm quite disappointed. First of all, there are major meta progression upgrades for each spell in the game, meaning you have to pull back on difficulty if you want to try a new build or grind with one build until you can upgrade another. That is the single most unfun aspect of this game. You are not allowed to explore build diversity whatsoever. Upgrading skills the final time costs an inordinate amount of the rarest currency. In 7 hours I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's fine, but there are probably better uses for your time. Combat is very repetitive; all your build decisions are made at the very start of a run, out of a fairly small pool of options that you have pretty good control over. So you can pretty much always land on exactly what you want. You only really have 4 meaningful choices during a run: weapon, main ability, passive and dash. You can slot runes in to change these effects, but you chose your runes from the whole pool, so there's no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has the biggest potential for insanity among horde survivors. You can become actually immortal, as in, the game can't kill you through regular means anymore no matter what it throws at you, no matter how big the numbers. I just had a ritual that lasted for FOUR HOURS because I was only slightly more immortal than the bosses I spawned. I just let the game run while doing other things. Really fun, more possibilities than its competition, with very meaningful meta-progression unlocks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like a lot of games in this genre, your enjoyment will really come down to choices in build variety and long term progression. This game has a lacking feel in both. Builds seem potentially quite varied, until you realise that certain items/spells are just always the best choice for that particular class, so why go for anything else, the game doesn't really support experimenting because many of your choices are just sub-optimal compared to the one good one. As for progression most upgrades are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the survivorlike ARPG 'Conquest Dark' you start off nude and build up clothing as you go with multi-life mechanics https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/in-the-survivorlike-arpg-conquest-dark-you-start-off-nude-and-build-up-clothing-as-you-go-with-multi-life-mechanics/ #ConquestDark #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
unlabelledView post →Our friend DatModz discovered our rune system in our new game Conquest Dark coming to Steam on April 30th! #IndieGame | #Steam | #IndieGameDev | #Roguelike | #ARPG
unlabelledView post →Conquest Dark by @madmushroom.gg gets major update www.thelabvideogametv.com Our Game is Never Over #ConquestDark #IndieGames #NewIndieGames #TheLabVideoGameTV
unlabelledView post →Too grindy without fun in order to unlock the fun, adding tiers adds way too much time to complete without adding anything interesting, the scroll drops are too unreliable and the other secondary progression take way too long to see a significant bonus from
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reasonably priced ARPG style survivor-like with arena combat. If you love incrementally unlocking things then you'll probably enjoy the progression quite a lot. Pretty much anything you do in the game is making progress toward unlocking weapons, gear and other mechanics to further empower your character and slowly make your power fantasy come true. Personally I prefer a more open map style of fighting rather than fullscreen arenas, but there is a game mode where you explore a map to trigger…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Oh, you like those builds you spent so much time making and enjoying? Well, I'm gonna nerf things into the ground and destroy your fun." Terrible game design philosophy. Helldivers 2 mentality of destroying the power fantasy and pushing players away.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very decent for Early Access. Yet not much content and progression. Definitely worth it to try and complete existing content, but here my personal moments: 1. Progression. It's not so cool prices just double each time... you reach 'cap' too early. Also not much to upgrade. For such type game PROGRESSION is the core interest. It's not hard to add higher difficulty to arena or such, so just give us so more ways to progress and let us burn those hours in farming arena 2. Customization. You can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will be honest, I did try demo first couple months ago and I did not like it. However, I was eager to get full game, because playing demo there were lot of things that were confusing since game showed up resources or currency that was not obtainable. Now, that i am 12 hours into the game i can say that Conquest Dark is alright, it can become bit tricky because some things are not explained well enough, for example I did complete couple arenas and last one in which i have to kill 3 bosses, i…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The difficulty spike when you encounter the boss Akka is just ridiculous. The rest of the game is easy as pie, but that thing is impossible to beat for me, no matter what. I'm too frustrated to waste any more of my time for this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this as part of my humble bundle, I cant recommend anyone to pay for this in its current state, free then its a fun little game that gets boring quickly, played two rounds (20 mins as its 10 mins a round) and I dont feel the need to play anymore. Sadly this game will go down for me as a miss and will be uninstalled, I will pick it back up after EA.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks okay and sounds okay, but with an overly short and repetitive music loop which sounds like it belongs in a '90s mystery movie. The gameplay is generally weak, with upgrades and unlocks feeling like constant filler. This includes character class unlocks. Other unlocks are strewn across an oversized map marred with icons you click on to incrementally upgrade permanent buffs with rewards you aquire grinding the main game. There are also social media icons inside the main game. I play games…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay isn't interesting enough to justify the grind
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an autobattler that relies pretty much exclusively on ripping off Poncle's Vampire Survivors (copyright 2021). There's some differences... your facing matters, and the graphics are undeniably better. That doesn't mean the game is better. This got a huge bump in popularity for featuring in Humble Choice, but Humble shouldn't be pushing Early Access games in bundles... this is misleading. If you buy a game bundle, you expect to get completed games, right? Not this time. It's hard…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dumb fun, but a simpler survivor-like. Expect to grind a lot to level each class, weapon and ability. Recommend getting on a sale. Runs and works very well on Steam Deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very grindy game with quick builds for fast gratification within ~20 min. It lacks a bit of content but the solo dev is open about that. Development is progressing albeit slow. What is there, is fun. I love the low fantasy setting and the variety of playstyles, classes, etc. Wanna have fun for half an hour and hack'n slay some monsters? Check. Or wanna grind for hours on end and zone out? Check. Wanna go on a power trip and turn your foes into a bloody mist? Check.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IF CONAN AND GAUNTLET HAD A BABY ... ... then this could be what it would look like! Thank you, developers, for the pure, sometimes tongue-in-cheek eighties goodness in this little gem of a game! The gameplay / progression loop could best be described as "reduced to the max" and anyone who is critical toward it might not have known what they would get themselves into from the beginning... the "survivors-like" gameplay and progression are executed well and smoothly, with responsive controls and…
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