DarkStone Restoration

A restoration of a childhood favorite. The UI is better, there's a quest log now, you auto-loot coin, and there's now auto-save. The graphics are also better and it's automatically wide-screen. And it's easier to track where you have and have not been as undiscovered places are darkened by default. Best of all it works out-of-the-box! The voice acting is only in French (the UI and subtitles are available in other languages). It was startling at first because it's not what I remember from playing this game in my childhood but I love it now. I pretend I'm playing in medieval France. :D 10/10. Keep up the good work, guys! I'm so excited to see this game restored.

Cool game from my childhood (PSone version). Mr.Cuisset, please add russian language ^_^

I have always loved Darkstone. I first got it on the PSone many years ago from my local grocery store for $10. 20+ years later, it is still one of my favorites that I have revisited time and time again. I have gotten the original running on Linux, a Chromebook, and my Steam Deck. I have gone as far as creating Steam Controller configs for playing. And this version, is just better. I have really enjoyed my time with revisiting this game. I never expected this to get a remaster/restoration experience and I always assumed that one of my childhood favorites was dead and only going to live through those who kept it going. When I heard about this, it was an instant buy, and I don't regret it for a second. I was able to pick up the characters and adventure that I had played a year or so again on my deck and I was able to keep it going with the next difficulty level. Everything came over easily by just copying my save data in, and now it is all synced up to the cloud. The control for controller feel good too, but did take me a bit to relearn, but now I am doing well. I am still not happy about the AI that my companion player uses, as my warrior keeps running into mobs and dying, but …

As someone who grew up playing the PS1 port, then later hunting down the original PC CD, this is the definitive way to play Darkstone. A lot of quality of life fixes are here that make this version much, much easier to play than the original 1999 release, such as WASD character movement, very much bigger gold stacks, potions and food now stacking up to 10, quick cast spell slots that cast on the press of 1-8, and a movable ui to go with it. Also improved here are monster respawn rates that made experience gain and leveling really difficult before, and gold seems to be a bit easier to come by than i remember (though it's worth mentioning that it has been a while since i played the original extensively). Other improvements include controller support, split screen multiplayer(haven't tested this one personally), upscaled assets and textures, the ability to disable said upscaled assets and textures(if you prefer the original game look), a setting to disable most of the gameplay improvements(like WASD controls or auto gold pickups, if you want to party like its 1999) and a quest journal to track all those townspeople fetch quests and bounties. As the game is currently in early acc…

10/10 great rebuild of this game! 10.99 is Very cheap for a game of this caliber!

I think the short answer is if your nostalgic for an ARPG in which you create/build two characters simultaneously... this fits* IF you are hoping for a deep experience... its not here. Characters can be built to learn any magic... skills are the only unique trait between the classes... and each adventure is a psuedo RNG of main quests that tie to fighting the final boss. IF you said I want Diablo 1 randomness with two party members at once... that is Darkstone. Score: A 6/10 that has QoL to modernize, but this particular formula hasn't aged enough compared to the original where you MUST play this version. *PC version apparently allows couch co-op with one controller and one KBM. You do NOT (I haven't found it) get split screen. AI gets stuck in doorways solo, might be worse than D2 mercs... stop following is a toggle you need in dungeons with Gauntlet teleport squares.