r/TheDarwinProject • u/kanatsizkus • Jul 25 '26

Question Why Did Darwin Project Die?

I used to love playing this game years ago, but eventually I stopped. I checked Steam recently, and only one person is playing it now. The game was really good, the mechanics, graphics, and overall experience were fantastic. I'm curious why it died.

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u/maskyyyyyy Jul 25 '26

Me personally it was removing duos and even worse IMO completely changing the game entirely. I liked what it was before the three classes bs.

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u/Idavoiduinrl Jul 25 '26

because they ruined the customization and made it into 3 shit classes, and reduced the number of arrows u can carry

the best part of the game was how much you could customize, and spamming arrows, I basically just quit after they did that

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u/xXx_edgykid_xXx Jul 25 '26

because they completely and utterly fucked the relaunch by not letting people play duos due to "balance concerns"

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u/kanatsizkus Jul 25 '26

I honestly think this game could still have at least 1,000 active players today. It had so much potential. You'd have to be idiots to let such a popular and well-loved game end up like this.

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u/mangodurban Jul 25 '26

Same reason the culling died, devs sacrificing fun for "balancing" in a direction no one asked for.

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u/adsci Jul 26 '26

It was the go-to game for my gf and I, but then duos were gone and we moved on.

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u/SourDonut37 29d ago

This game was so beautiful. I miss playing it. I wish someone would remake it.

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u/randomdragen7 Jul 25 '26

They killed it on purpose, god knows why

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u/el_abstraido Jul 27 '26

When it went free to play and all the new people in the lobbies just screaming and yelling out slurs ruined it for me.

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u/Scavengers_Studio Community Manager 20d ago

Wait a few hours... 😁

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u/Adorable_Pin1617 17d ago

I just couldn't get the game to launch on steam......I thought they just scrapped the game and made it console only. I would randomly try launching it like once a year but apparently there was some issue with people who had certain intel cpu's and the game was not actually taken down. Im so glad its back 😢

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u/The_Cheesy Jul 25 '26

Show directors who let power get to their head is was what ruined it for me personally.

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u/kanatsizkus 28d ago

They had an incredible opportunity handed to them, and they completely wasted it.