How to try Dark and Darker playtest despite its unavailability on Steam

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Dark and Darker is one of the most awaited dungeon crawler titles that blends first-person gameplay mechanics with role-playing elements in a medieval-themed setting. However, its road to release has been marred by many hurdles, the most recent being the DMCA takedown from Nexon.

This rendered Dark and Darker unavailable to Steam users. This mishap hasn't thwarted the developer Ironmace from continuing its playtest. In turn, they used an unorthodox medium to make the playtest available to fans. The developers declared that fans could delve into it via torrent in the Dark and Darker Discord server.

Dark and Darker developers Ironmace have provided an interesting alternative to access the playtest. This requires downloading the game's torrent files that Ironmace themselves provides. It is natural to be apprehensive about this approach since it involves using applications like BitTorrent or Utorrent. However, this is the only way to experience the playtest.

While Ironmace did tweet the torrent link, it has since been taken down from the social media platform. Interested readers can manually type out the link from the below-displayed Reddit screengrab (start typing from magnet:? to announce). This can be entered in the search bar of your internet browser, provided that you have a third-party torrent client downloaded on your PC.

You must then wait for the torrent file to download and start the installer, which can be found in the specified destination. This can be checked by right-clicking on the downloaded file and selecting the Open Containing Folder option (the terminology may differ based on the torrent client used).

After installation, you can go ahead and enter or create a login ID and password before delving into the