
- 64/100
- Players13 ratings
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 75/100
- GameFAQsTough/Unforgiving
- 3/5
- Player reviews
- 88% positive24,431 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- Free
Where to get it

2018 · Glowstick Entertainment · Role-playing · Adventure
Dark Deception
A first-person horror game by indie developer Glowstick Games. The player must run through a maze of corridors, collecting shards and avoiding giant knife-wielding toy monkeys, in a decidedly Pac-Man-like fashion.
- Released
- 27 September 2018
- Platforms
- Xbox Series X/SPlayStation 4WindowsPlayStation 5Xbox One
- Genres
- Role-playingAdventureIndieArcade
- Developers
- Glowstick Entertainment
- Publishers
- Glowstick Entertainment
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Auditory
- Themes
- ActionHorror
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Age ratings
- GRAC 15+ESRB TPEGI 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Features
- Captions availableFamily SharingSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievements
- Time to beat
- 2.5hmain story4hcompletionist
Players say
Media
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Dark Deception: Complete Edition
- Downloadable content
- Dark Deception: Chapter 4Dark Deception: Chapter 2Dark Deception: Chapter 3Dark Deception: Chapter 5
- Built on it
- Dark Deception: Chapter 3Dark Deception: Chapter 2Dark Deception: Chapter 4
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