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Adventure indie game The wild darkness was released in 2025, with popeyed-inc handling both development and publishing. Its Steam reception is mostly positive, with 80% positive feedback across 156 reviews—a favorable but modest review base.
Overview
The wild darkness is a 2025 Adventure game developed by popeyed inc and published by popeyed inc. It is tracked in indielist's catalog of indie Adventure titles alongside its developer and publisher relationships. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer popeyed inc with publisher popeyed inc is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. Because The wild darkness is free to play, indielist does not convert its review count into paid copies or revenue; this page reports reception and catalog facts instead. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The wild darkness can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.
Reviews
0
Positive
80%
Steam appid
4123780
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Paid sales estimate unavailable
This game is free to play. Steam reviews measure reception, not paid copies, so indielist does not publish unit-sales or revenue estimates for it.
Platforms
windows
Frequently asked questions
- Is The wild darkness free to play?
- Yes. The wild darkness is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
- Who developed The wild darkness?
- The wild darkness was developed by popeyed inc and published by popeyed inc.
- Who published The wild darkness?
- The wild darkness was published by popeyed inc, developed by popeyed inc. See popeyed inc's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was The wild darkness released?
- The wild darkness was released in 2025.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like The wild darkness can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, popeyed inc's other releases and popeyed inc's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The wild darkness sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The wild darkness page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and received, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and catalog figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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