Three months after eradicating Darkish and Darker from sale, Epic Video games goes a step additional to erase any hint of its existence on the Epic Video games Retailer: An e mail being despatched to homeowners says Epic will take away the PvPvE dungeon crawler Darkish and Darker from their libraries on November 1. Refunds might be issued to anybody who bought the “Legendary Standing” improve, however refunds for the Redstone Shards premium foreign money is not going to be supplied.
“We eliminated Darkish and Darker from sale on the Epic Video games Retailer on March 5 in consideration of a court docket resolution in Korea between Nexon and the sport’s writer, Ironmace,” the message states. “On November 1, 2025, we might be eradicating Darkish and Darker out of your library, at which level it would now not be playable through the Epic Video games Retailer.”
The “court docket resolution” within the message refers to a February 2025 discovering that Ironmace didn’t commit copyright infringement towards Nexon, however did infringe on Nexon’s commerce secrets and techniques. Nexon had accused the studio of constructing Darkish and Darker on property and code “stolen” from an identical undertaking, codenamed P3, which it cancelled in 2021. Ironmace is now on the hook for practically $6 million.
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Epic confirmed that the e-mail, which is being shared on Reddit and social media, is legit, and supplied a replica of the message to PC Gamer.
Eradicating a recreation from sale is one factor, however pulling it from libraries of current homeowners is one thing else completely, and an uncommon step: Extra usually, video games on digital storefronts which are faraway from sale stay out there to homeowners. Epic did not go into element about why it is taking this additional step, solely saying that the removing was prompted by Korea’s court docket resolution.
For now, Darkish and Darker stays out there on Steam, free and with the identical “Legendary Standing” improve choice that was beforehand additionally supplied on the Epic Retailer. Some Steam gamers have expressed considerations that Darkish and Darker might be faraway from libraries on that storefront as properly, which I suppose attainable (particularly if the Epic takedown was the results of some new, as-yet-unannounced court docket ruling) however appears unlikely, provided that the sport continues to be up for grabs. I’ve reached out to Epic and Ironmace for extra info and can replace if I obtain a reply.
