DARQ: Complete Edition brings its lucid nightmare to Switch and next-gen consoles soon

Because if there's one thing we could all use more of these days, it's nightmare fuel.

DARQ: Complete Edition is headed next to Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5, publisher Feardemic announced today. It will be available for $19.99 or regional equivalent, starting with Nintendo Switch on March 18 and landing on additional consoles the week after that.

Those who like their fear to get a bit physical will likely be pleased to learn a physical release is also planned for Switch, Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 in the second quarter of 2021. The game was also released this past December on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, but as a digital exclusive.

In DARQ, players meet Lloyd, a lucid dreamer who has landed right in the middle of a nightmare. To escape to the waking world, he must face his fears by exploring, solving puzzles and using stealth to avoid tricky encounters.

On PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game is playable in "cinematic mode," running at 30FPS, or you can go with "performance mode" and enjoy 60FPS at 1800p resolution. DualSense haptics are also utilized on the PS5 version.

You may wonder what the "complete" edition includes. Sources tell us it includes the original game released on PC in 2019, along with two pieces of DLC: "The Tower" and "The Crypt." Those both sound like perfectly lovely places, but we've been wrong before.

Critics and players alike seem to have enjoyed DARQ quite a bit in its previous incarnations, so if you're looking for something dark and eerie to supplement the brighter adventures of Mario and Crash and their ilk, this could be a safe-ish bet. Are you intrigued?

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Staff article by Jason Venter (March 11, 2021) Jason Venter has been playing games for 30 years, since discovering the Apple IIe version of Mario Bros. in his elementary school days. Now he writes about them, here at HonestGamers and also at other sites that agree to pay him for his words.