Darwinia on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Darwinia blends real-time strategy, action, and puzzles with a unique gesture-based control system. Save the Darwinians, battle viruses, and restore order in a retro-inspired digital world. Winner of multiple prestigious awards, including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF 2006.

Darwinia is a indie, tactical rpg and shoot 'em up game developed and published by Introversion Software.
Released on July 14th 2005 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish - Spain.

It has received 1,073 reviews of which 858 were positive and 215 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Darwinia into these genres:

Indie Tactical RPG Shoot 'Em Up Wargame Real Time Tactics Puzzle PvE RTS God Game Arcade Strategy Surreal Story Rich 3D Abstract Colorful Pixel Graphics Stylized Sci-fi Singleplayer

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System 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 or later
Processor: Intel Core i5 (Westmere) or better
Memory: 4GB of RAM
Graphics: 4GB of VRAM
Graphics API (ANGLE): Direct3D 11+ or Vulkan 1.2.160+
Graphics API (OpenGL): OpenGL 3.3+

MacOS

OS: macOS 11.0 Big Sur or later
Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core i5 (Westmere) or newer
Memory: 4GB of RAM
Graphics: 4GB of VRAM, Metal support required

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 or newer distro
Processor: Intel Core i5 (Westmere) or better
Memory: 4GB of RAM
Graphics: 4GB of VRAM
Graphics API (ANGLE): Vulkan 1.2.160+
Graphics API (OpenGL): OpenGL 3.3+

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2024

Quite a unique little game. Nice blast from the past. Had no problem making this work on the Win 10 and new hardware.

Sept. 2024

Simple and in ways primitive, but elegant. Unchanging, but endlessly replayable. Beautiful sound, emotionally resonant, a great game

Sept. 2024

I love this game. Bought it in 2015 and still play through this once a year. Easy to play, doesn't take long to master. Great Tron-ish graphics and butter smooth performance. Good music, cute retroloading- and demo scene intros. Kind of wish someone made a Cannon Fodder total conversion mod for this ;)

Sept. 2024

One of the first real non-browser computer games I ever played, and it holds up to this day. Game is beautiful, challenging, and has a solid amount of well-scaling content. Some aspects require patience, but it's really not that bad. I don't find it tedious at all. As someone who doesn't like RTS games, I love this game because you are able to exercise total control over units (especially the squads) when you want to, and can let them manage themselves at other times. Perfect blend of hands-on action, and big picture map strategy. Nothing else like it.

July 2024

The style of graphics is unique. Both pixel style, and yet of higher quality. A point and click game to build Darwinians, protect them, train them, and eradicate the red virus. Inventive story line. It can be a bit fiddly to figure out at first as the guidance is a bit lacking - but you get the hang of it. Hit <H> when something is selected for specific guidance, <SPACE> to deselect and ask for help again for something more generic. Once you have met the objectives, hit <ESC> and leave the location.

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9.75€

7.6

858

215

Online players

Developer

Introversion Software

Publisher

Introversion Software

Release 14 Jul 2005

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