Dark Sector on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A third-person Action/Shooter that thrusts players into a sci-fi flavored nightmare scenario set in the post Cold War era.

Dark Sector is a action, third-person shooter and gore game developed and published by Digital Extremes.
Released on March 24th 2009 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 2,674 reviews of which 2,037 were positive and 637 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • Operating System: Microsoft® Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista 32bit
  • Processor: Pentium® 4 2.4 GHz or similar Athlon® 64â„¢
  • Memory: XP 1 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 6.5 GB Available
  • Video Card: DirectX 9.0 compatible, with shaders 3.0 support (nVidia GeForce 6600 or ATI X1300 or higher)
  • Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
  • DirectX® Version: 9.0c
  • Controller support: XInput-controllers (Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller or Logitech Chillstream)

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Nov. 2024
DE in an absolute power move decided to give the game away 10 days after I bought and played through it. 😭 Well worth it tho, for what it was for its time and the bs the devs needed to deal with in order to get the funding needed for the game. Honestly, without Dark Sector turning out the way it did, who knows if we'd get Warframe the way it ended up being developed and it honestly may've been for the best. Graphics still hold up fine to this day imo and there were parts that were genuinely challenging to tackle but remained both fair and fun. Overall a solid experience in my book.
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Nov. 2024
DE, remaster this and put it in Warframe as a secret. Or resell it for $10, like something please this is such a fun game. It's buggy, sure, but the bugs are all funny. The gameplay is still solid, story is entertaining, just fix the post processing and the 16:9 resolution please I beg you.
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Oct. 2024
I played DarkSector back when the game first launched on PS3. I instantly fell in love with it as well as following Digital Extremes games for many years (My Dad played their pinball games, I played Unreal a fair bit.) So, once DarkSector released I jumped on it after playing the Demo. This game honestly surprisingly aged well, I can still play this and enjoy it like I was first playing it back on the PS. The controls are easy to pick up, the story is fun, the glaive is just my go to (Especially in Warframe lmao) I recommend people give DarkSector a go, especially if you adore Warframe. Trust me it hits hard when you played this before joining Warframe.
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Sept. 2024
I am loving this game so far. 2 thumbs up. I am playing this game on the steam deck, and it should be steam deck verified. This game needs achievements.
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July 2024
Came here after Tennocon 2024 and the 1999 showcase, game is old but still pretty good, nice to see the early designs that would be updated and used in Warframe later
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Dark Sector
7.4
2,037
637
Online players
39
Developer
Digital Extremes
Publisher
Digital Extremes
Release 24 Mar 2009
Platforms