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Shadows in the Darkness is a multiplayer VR roguelite, allowing up to four players to explore randomly generated dungeons, fight a variety of monsters, and loot their way to victory. Enchant powerful weapons, chug down mysterious potions, and reach the 21st floor of these darkest dungeons.

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An Update from the Developer

Sep 23, 2018

Hello everyone,

I would like to provide an update on Shadows in the Darkness. When I first released the game in October of 2017, I had every intention of consistently updating and enhancing it for about a year. Although I did so for the first several months, I unexpectedly landed a job and my time to program was consumed elsewhere. I apologize for the lack of communication, and, unfortunately, there will be no further updates. I have significantly reduced the price to something I believe is fair. I hope to continue game development sometime in the future.

Best wishes,
Mike

Shadows in the Darkness

Question for the Dev

Greetings, First of all, this game looks super awesome and totally my cup of tea. That said, I was just curious how long it may take someone to get through one of the RNG dungeons? Also, how much variety is there in monsters, gear, terrain/backdrops, etc? My interest is piqued, but I want to be sure I get enough gameplay for my money. Thanks a lot!...

Goregrinder

Oct 24, 2017 @ 2:36pm

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Patch 12.21.2017 (voice chat improvements, multiplayer physics fixes, and difficulty adjustments)

Dec 21, 2017

Hello everyone,

Shadows in the Darkness is now 20% on sale for the Steam holiday sale! Spread the news, as a big update is coming in the new year! Here's what's in this patch:

Voice chat quality in multiplayer has been greatly improved.
- Voice chat has been suffering in quality because of an old implementation with Unity's networking solution. This has now been redone to provide much higher quality chat.
- There are now minimal software caused 'buzzing' sounds when player's are not talking into their microphone.
Item positions are more accurate over the network, and the physics interactions between clients is now more responsive.
- The positions of items, such as swords or potions, are now updated quicker in multiplayer.
- Physics is now much more reliable in multiplayer.
Difficulty adjustments have been made.
- The 'impossible' difficulty level has been redone to stay true to its name.
- The 'classic' difficulty will now contain slightly lower health (around 5%) on shielded orcs.
- The 'easy' difficulty will have a lower chance of spawning difficult enemies, but a higher chance to spawn them without their 'specialized tools' (orcs without their shield, armored goblins without their armor, etc.)
Many small bug fixes.

The feedback lately has been really helpful since the last major update and many suggestions from the community will surely be implemented in the upcoming new year. Happy holidays!

-SCORNZ

Shadows in the Darkness

BIG Update 11.28.2017 (tons of new items, shops, new roguelite elements, fixes)

Nov 28, 2017

Hello everyone,

It's an exciting update, I've got a pretty big one for every player today. Here's what is included:

Buff items to enhance the player have appeared all around the dungeon!
- Tons of new items are now able to be found in chests, shops, and various rooms.
- These items improve player statistics such as health regen, max health, magic range, etc.
- These items could have positive and/or negative effects on the player, and it is a necessary decision whether or not the positive effects outweigh the negative effects.
Shops now appear throughout all dungeon environments.
- Purchase buffs, scrolls, potions, keys, and weapons to help you in your adventure!
- Shops are now added in as a 'special' room, similar to weapon rooms and libraries.
- Gold to spend in shops can be found by killing different enemies throughout the dungeon. The more difficult the enemy, the more gold coins that are collected.
- Prices scale with the floor number.
Weapons now need to be 'identified' in order to view their statistics, such as damage, sharpness, etc.
- A weapon's statistics will now be hidden until it is well used or a Scroll of Identify is applied to it.
- Using a weapon to attack enemies will help the weapon become identified quicker.
Added locked chests.
- There are now three types of chests: normal, silver, and gold.
- Silver chests give a higher chance of containing rare items, with only one guaranteed item.
- Gold chests give a much higher chance of containing very rare items, with two guaranteed RARE items.
- Keys can be found in other chests scattered throughout the dungeon, or purchased with gold in the shop.
Player statistics, such as health and gold, now have their own panel
- Similar to accessing a weapon's statistics, open the player statistics by swiping left on the touchpad (Vive) or clicking in the joystick (Oculus) with nothing in hand.
- Currently, only health, max health, and gold are visible from this screen, but buffs and level statistics should be seen here in a near update.
New control schemes for 'two controllers'
- The ability to switch between using the right hand to move and left to rotate has now been added.
- This option can be changed in the 'Control Scheme' section of the options tab in the lobby.
Increased the integrity of physics.
- For higher-spec systems, the physics in-game will now be more accurate and precise.
- For lower-spec systems, this will lower occurrence of the jittery weapons problem found in graphics intense situations.
Libraries and scrolls will now appear in all environments of the dungeon.
Enchanting no longer goes by basic, set numbers
- For most weapon stats, enchanting will increase or decrease that stat by a percentage rather than a set number.
- This system allows for enchanting to be valid across all floors of the dungeon.
Fixed magic sporadically not being detected by enemies.
- The magic system is now more reliable than ever and hitting any vital part of an enemy will deal at least some damage.
- Hitting armor with magic still does not deal any damage to the enemy.
Fixed potion use not being applied to the player
- Potions will now definitely be applied if placed to the mouth and drank, this used to sometimes not work because of the raycasting system used.
Fixed bug where item info would display values that were extended with a seemingly infinite amount of '9's
Mage enemy modified
- Now with a cape and a 3D floating, crystal eye!
Scrolls no longer spawn on the top of bookshelves in libraries
Balanced rare weapons and weapon spawning.
Fixed networked animations not being played correctly.

...and a whole lot more fixes that would make this already too-long patch notes post even longer.

Over the past few weeks, I've been really happy seeing the player base grow steadily, although slowly. If you have a couple spare minutes, it would be a huge help to leave a review on the Steam page. Thank you all for your feedback and support thus far!

-SCORNZ

Shadows in the Darkness

Feedback

Please give an option for touch locomotion with variable speed instead of pressing, almost no game uses press anymore. Also by arm swinger the direction should be determined by where you place your thumb on the trackpad because this enables you to move backwards - see VR Dungeon Knight as example. Please change pressing the grip once to drop your sword to another button or double tap grip, it is too easy to drop your sword when fighting. If you chose arm swinger it is impossible to play the tutorial agai...

tonka

Oct 29, 2017 @ 12:40pm

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VR Dungeon Knight ?

ccjeffgcs

Oct 22, 2017 @ 1:31am

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THIS GAME IS INDEED A GAME!

You would not believe it, but when you log onto this game distribution platform and searh in the game search bar for a game with the name "Shawdos in the Darkness" that a game of that name does indeed arise. That's pretty neat. I beat that the programmer is a super old, experienced man who has stood the test of time in the difficult video game making industry only to break off to give up the industry life to produce a personal and insightful game from his own background and roots. If it does not live up t...

thundy2000

Sep 23, 2018 @ 4:41am

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Bug Report

1) Inventory not accessable - On the 3rd level my inventory had a bunch of potions, scrolls and 1 wand. However I could not open it by pression the B/Y key (using Oculus) unless I had something in my hand. Even then the inventory did not fully materialise and I could not add or remove anything from it. 2) Top Shelf Accessibility - I am 6ft tall and its nearly impossible to grab something off the top shelf. 3) Enchanting -(ve) - Not sure if it is a bug, but I enchanted a wand to -5 Dmg and a good rechar...

Bru Warden

Nov 29, 2017 @ 9:59am

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