2Dark

 PlayStation 4
User Score
7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 27 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 27
  3. Negative: 6 out of 27

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  1. NalyoGaming
    May 15, 2017
    8
    2Dark starts off with a pretty intense scene. You watch as the main character who is a workaholic as a Police Detective is taking a weekend off to finally spend some time with his family. You and your family go camping and as you are setting up camp your wife decides to take the kids to find some firewood while you finish setting up the tents in camp. Just a short time after they leave for2Dark starts off with a pretty intense scene. You watch as the main character who is a workaholic as a Police Detective is taking a weekend off to finally spend some time with his family. You and your family go camping and as you are setting up camp your wife decides to take the kids to find some firewood while you finish setting up the tents in camp. Just a short time after they leave for firewood you hear screams. You run toward the direction your wife and kids walked off to get wood and that is when you find your wife laying dead on the trail. Next you hear your two children yelling for you and you see them in the back of a van through the back window being kidnapped and driven away. This is just a video game but as the player you are left thinking wow this sort of thing has more than likely happened in real life or at least a similar situation like it has at one point or another so it is pretty scary and real in a sense.
    You can imagine how this one night affects our Main character Smith for the rest of his life and soon after this happens he looses his job as a Police detective because he spends all his time looking for his two kids who were kidnapped. Eventually our character Smith turns into a sort of vigilante who begins finding out about certain places where kids are being mistreated, used, sold, kidnapped and anything else terrible that can happen to kids and he goes to these places and basically turns the place upside down doing whatever he has to do to rescue any children who are at these locations all the while he is looking for his children. The Games Inventory mechanics work really well and you can add items together to complete certain tasks. A simple thing like saving the game requires you to light a cigarette with a flame and smoke which saves the game. The first real level takes you to a local rundown amusement park called Gloomyditch Amusement park and this was the first taste of what the game was really going to be like which was very impressive. Without going into any further details to be careful not to spoil anything I will say that I truly enjoyed my time with 2Dark By Gloomywood Games on the PlayStation 4.
    2Dark by Gloomywood Games Quick Review Rundown Score 8 / 10    … Expand
  2. RagerM
    Jun 18, 2023
    8
    Um ótimo jogo, me prendeu por no mínimo umas 6h, história muito boa e arte muito linda, porém, algumas mecânicas não fazem muito sentido e não funcionam, possui alguns bugs com os Npc's, e também, um dos finais não fazem o menor sentido ao meu ver.

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Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 6 out of 19
  1. Worth Playing
    Oct 10, 2017
    65
    2Dark has a lot of potential, and the premise is exciting. The developers dared to delve into a dark plot, and that bravery should be applauded. The title doesn't fail in any particular way, but it also doesn't meet its full potential. The gameplay felt overly complicated and could've benefited from a less is more approach. Some improvements to the inventory system also could've made gamers feel more in control of the protagonist. It would've been amazing if the game had managed to remain focused on some quick and tense action sequences, rather than spending so much time on tedious tasks, which interrupted the sense of immersion.
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  2. DarkStation
    Jun 14, 2017
    60
    When you first take a peek at 2Dark, the name, the descriptions and whatnot, you get a sense that this game is just gonna be another generic survival horror game that takes itself way too seriously -- maybe with crafting elements sprinkled in there to further piss me off; No charm, no redeeming value, either a Silent Hill knockoff or a Slenderman knockoff. However you will soon realize that 2Dark is, and thank god for that, its own original thing with a different approach to horror. The story is deliberately cheesy. The game itself knows that the story's bland, is quickly brushed off and rarely mentioned ever again. You're a private detective with a murdered family who rescues children from evil clowns, serial killers and rest of the kitchen sink. It's okay, not too aggregating, a bit too edgy but mostly harmless.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    May 29, 2017
    30
    2Dark will not make you feel annoyed, it will make you feel sad, and that's definitely worse. [May 2017, p.96]
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