Hi there, We removed Dark and Darker from sale on the Epic Games Store on March 5 in consideration of a court decision in Korea between Nexon and the game's publisher, IRONMACE. On November 1, 2025, we will be removing Dark and Darker from your library, at which point it will no longer be playable via the Epic Games Store.
Effective immediately, players can no longer purchase Redstone Shards or the Legendary Status upgrades via the Epic Games Store. Players can continue to use the Redstone Shards that they have previously purchased until November 1, 2025.
We will issue a refund to all players who have purchased the Legendary Status upgrade. Refunds will be issued to the player’s original payment method, and where that’s not possible, players will receive a refund to their Epic account balance. We are unable to provide refunds on Redstone Shards.
If you have not received a refund by July 1, please contact player support.
Thank you,
The Epic Games Store team
It's a multiplayer freemium game. Even if they let you keep your "copy" of it, servers will be down and the game will not be playable anyways. At least they offer a refund.
Multiplayer online games used to allow you to self-host so there was no obligatory centralised server. The game need not be deleted, that was purely a business decision.
I remember when you could be a listen server or run your own dedicated server using the freely available executable. Been a while since I've seen anything like that
Lots of game still have that, Satisfactory, Minecraft, Valheim
The suits found out what servers are. Worst shit that ever happened
Two crimes, then.
The game would have gone offline eventually anyway. Most people get nothing when that inevitably happens. Some games flip to an offline only version, but that's very rare.
Hell, I bought single player offline games from the Play store for my phone, and they no longer seem to exist. RIP Rayman Jungle Run.
Perpetuum official servers went down years ago, so they open source the server and the game lives on. Free on steam