Embracing Darkness

Embracing Darkness

Killer Queen · December 1, 2022 · Visual Novel, Casual, Dark Fantasy, Free to Play, Multiple Endings

Embracing Darkness is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Embracing Darkness price

Embracing Darkness is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Embracing Darkness

"Embracing Darkness" is a fan visual novel in which players can enjoy a short encounter with Local Villains Tiefedorf and Shuraomaru in the form of an interactive fiction story.

FEATURES


  • Japanese & English languages available
  • 3 scenarios
  • Non-gendered protagonist that can be read as either male or female
  • Completely free

STORY



Shuraomaru's story
Every day, you get lunch at your favorite café, and you sit down at your favorite table to eat. This time, however, there's someone already on your seat when you get there, and he seems to be waiting for you...

Tiefedorf's story
After getting lost in the woods during a winter storm, you end up at a mysterious mansion. With nowhere else to turn to, you find yourself accepting the invitation of its owner to stay for tea...

Bonus Scenario
Ever since you inherited your grandfather's mystic shop, you've been used to dealing with all kinds of phantoms and shady figures. But there's something about two of your newest clients you can't quite put your finger on..

Embracing Darkness — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Apr 10, 2023
[h1]Before I played Embracing Darkness, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 22, 2025
"Embracing Darkness" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This garbage e-book is a copyright infringing unauthorised duplication/derivative work from the Japanese copyrighted Dogengers TV series, wholly owned and governed the Dogengers Production Committee in Japan. So, basically we have a completely cringey fan-fiction where the developer makes characters from someone else's show into his imaginary anime boyfriends. The cringe here goes to 11. This was slapped together with the godawful Ren'Py visual novel construction kit... enabling terrible authors to publish books as if they were games when otherwise we might have been spared the pollution. So, just like no professional writing took plac…
3 found this helpful
Recommended May 21, 2025
I have no clue where these characters come from, what role-play grid is, or who any of these characters are but they seem cool!👍

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