Dark Deception
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Dark Deception is an action game released in 2018. It has garnered 1,278 reviews on Steam. The title is available for free to play.
Overview
Dark Deception is a 2018 Action game developed by Glowstick Entertainment and published by Glowstick Entertainment. On Steam it has gathered 1,323 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and is free to play. The pairing of developer Glowstick Entertainment with publisher Glowstick Entertainment is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. Because Dark Deception 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, Dark Deception can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and public reception.
Reviews
1,323
Positive
88%
Steam appid
332950
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
152
Historical snapshot ·
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
Tags
HorrorFree to PlayMultiplayerSingleplayerFirst-PersonPsychological HorrorRunnerSurvival HorrorIndieActionSurvivalDark HumorAdventureStory RichArcadeRPGMultiple EndingsCinematicDarkDifficult
Frequently asked questions
- Is Dark Deception free to play?
- Yes. Dark Deception is free to play, so indielist reports its Steam reviews and catalog data without publishing paid-copy or revenue estimates.
- Who developed Dark Deception?
- Dark Deception was developed by Glowstick Entertainment and published by Glowstick Entertainment.
- Who published Dark Deception?
- Dark Deception was published by Glowstick Entertainment, developed by Glowstick Entertainment. See Glowstick Entertainment's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dark Deception released?
- Dark Deception was released in 2018.
- How many reviews does Dark Deception have on Steam?
- Dark Deception has 1,323 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Dark Deception worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dark Deception 88% positive across 1,323 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and catalog facts so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Dark Deception can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Outlast, Outlast 2, Slender: The Arrival, Poppy Playtime, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Glowstick Entertainment's other releases and Glowstick Entertainment's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dark Deception 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 Dark Deception page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action 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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- O
Outlast
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Shared tags: Horror, First-Person, Survival Horror
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Outlast 2
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Shared tags: Horror, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror
- S
Slender: The Arrival
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Shared tags: Horror, Survival Horror, First-Person
- P
Poppy Playtime
Action
Shared tags: Horror, Free to Play, Singleplayer
- B
Bendy and the Ink Machine
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Shared tags: Horror, First-Person, Singleplayer
- F
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