Darkestville Castle

Like any decent demon Cid spends his nights performing all kind of evil deeds to the peaceful people of Darkestville. Little does he know that his old arch enemy is about to change his life forever.

Darkestville Castle is a point & click, adventure and hidden object game developed by Epic Llama Games and published by ESDigital Games.
Released on September 21st 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, Russian, Spanish - Spain, French, German and Italian.

It has received 597 reviews of which 556 were positive and 41 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 2.24€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

The Steam community has classified Darkestville Castle into these genres:

Point & Click Adventure Hidden Object Villain Protagonist Cartoony Hand-drawn Funny 2D Puzzle Third Person Story Rich Conversation Demons Comedy Atmospheric Singleplayer Dark Humor Classic Great Soundtrack Indie

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: 2.5 GHz (Single Core) or 2 GHz (Dual Core)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9.0 compatible
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 1.5 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Lion 10.7.X
Processor: Lion 10.7.X
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, Intel HD 3000, or equivalent card with at least 512 MB VRAM
Storage: 1.5 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Processor: 2.5 GHz (Single Core) or 2 GHz (Dual Core)
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 9.0 compatible
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

Selected CAT mode first time... Imagine my look on my face... ♥ Other than that it's pretty OK, the only annoying thing is that when you click on the hotspot you got ALL 3 options available to you interact/examine/TalkTo and that does not mean you can do either of them that's a confusing bummer for the game. And main actor's voice is meh (for English), jokes are fine but voice cannot express it in a fun way.

Sept. 2024

Darkestville Castle is a very solid point&click adventure game with full voice-over, lots of puzzles, many locations, and a playtime of around 10 hours. The Story Cid, the demon of Darkestville just wants to work a bit on his to-do list of evil deeds, when his arch-nemesis Dan Teapot locks him into his castle. As if that wasn't enough hassle, three demon hunters arrive in Darkestville, and that isn't even the worst news of the day for Cid. Cid is your classic anti-hero, always a sarcastic comment on his non-existing lips, who will grow on you over the course of the game. His voice actor does a stellar job, and I greatly enjoyed his banter. Humor is often hit or miss, but Darkestville Castle, in my opinion, manages a consistently humorous tone without getting too silly. Darkestville is "puzzle-driven", the story-line mainly provides obstacles for Cid to overcome, so don't expect too much depth, although there's even a bit of character growth for Cid if you squint the right way. The Gameplay You have an inventory that automatically opens when you move your cursor to the bottom of the screen, and you drag items to hotspots to combine them. You can interact with hotspots in one of three ways, "grabbing", looking, and talking. You move around by pointing & clicking, but you can also quickly move from scene to scene by clicking on the "exit"-arrow, which brings you to an overview map. There's a nice mix of inventory and dialogue puzzles that make sense, at least in Darkestville. There is no in-game help beyond a hotspot viewer but listening to item descriptions or listening to a few dialogues again helped me the few times when I felt a bit stuck. Criticism I praised the voice acting of the main characters in the game, but some of the voice acting of a couple of minor characters was mediocre at best. There was also some inconsistency with the volume of the voices. In several situations some of the voices were very quiet compared to other voices or the background music. Summary I spent an enjoyable 10 hours with Cid, the demon. Darkestville Castle is maybe not the most memorable adventure game I've ever played but it is a very solid puzzle-driven point&click adventure game with just one minor flaw, an inconsistent voice volume in a handful situations. There's a demo that you can check out to see if the humor and gameplay are your cup of tea, but in my opinion, if you like adventures for the puzzles, you won't regret buying Darkestville Castle.

Aug. 2024

This was a fun game with charming graphics, nice voice-acting and it's style reminded me a lot of Monkey Island 3 (the end even of Monkey Island 2 too), but I would only buy it when it's on sale because it's not really the biggest game. The puzzles are easy to solve for but some of them are still challenging and I did enjoy the game-humor too.

March 2024

Super fun! Reminded me of the old Monkey Island games a little, perhaps because the music was nostalgic and the art style was reminiscent of CoMI. Weird puzzles that were not always intuitive made for a great adventure game. I thought it was funny, the plot was unique, and the characters were interesting. Nice medium length, not too short or long. Definitely recommend!

Feb. 2024

Cool game that reminds me of a series of games about Petka. Excellent game idea, logically structured sequence of actions

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