
- 80/100
- Players2 ratings
- 74/100
- Metacritic4 critic reviews
More scores
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 70/100
- GameFAQsTough-Unforgiving
- 3.72/5
- Player reviews
- 82% positive553 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$14.99
Where to get it

2014 · Avidly Wild Games · Role-playing · Indie
Our Darker Purpose
Darker Purpose is a top-down, rogue-like action RPG that combines the ingenuity of genre-defining classics with the expansiveness and accessibility of modern day action adventure games. The gameplay is steeped in a variety of influences ranging from A Link to the Past to The Binding of Isaac to Diablo. We love games with great mechanics and awesome, bizarre storylines, and that’s what we’re creating with Our Darker Purpose.
- Released
- 29 January 2014
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Role-playingIndie
- Developers
- Avidly Wild Games
- Publishers
- Avidly Wild Games
- Modes
- Single-player
- Themes
- ActionHorror
- Languages
- English
- Features
- Family SharingPartial controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
- Time to beat
- 11hmain story226hcompletionist
›Story
When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos. Cordy must battle feral classmates and dangerous creatures as she ascends to the cruel Administrators’ offices atop the Edgewood Home for Lost Children.
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