Our Darker Purpose

Journey to the dark heart of the Edgewood Home for Lost Children in this fiendishly difficult action RPG!When her teacher stepped out of the classroom a month ago, Cordy never imagined he would be gone for good. Now her fellow students have turned on each other as the school descends into chaos.

Our Darker Purpose is a indie, action roguelike and rogue-like game developed and published by Avidly Wild Games.
Released on January 29th 2014 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 732 reviews of which 602 were positive and 130 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Our Darker Purpose into these genres:

Indie Action Roguelike Rogue-like Action RPG Rogue-lite Difficult Procedural Generation Female Protagonist Dark Perma Death Gothic Singleplayer Kickstarter 2D Great Soundtrack Dark Fantasy

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows Vista/7
Processor: 1.6 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: X1950 Pro, 7900 GT
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 300 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Dec. 2024

I really like this game the story and gameplay are fun

Nov. 2024

Love it

Oct. 2024

W game. The best part about it is the amazing soundtrack by Fenwick & the Futures (Nathan Smith).

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14.99€

7.8

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Developer

Avidly Wild Games

Publisher

Avidly Wild Games

Release 29 Jan 2014

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