Naturally, Dark and Darker is now enjoying plenty of momentum. It's not as though Ironmace will accelerate the launch of the game however. A beta release could take a lot of effort. Instead, the company is Dark And Darker Gold planning to keep the pace for Dark and Darker free alpha tests. When the alpha test previously concluded, Ironmace confirmed plans to reinstate the alpha test in February 2023.

Dark and Darker's upcoming alpha test will officially begin during the forthcoming Steam Next Fest event in February 2023. It's called the Next Fest is a Valve event where indie developers showcase their in-development games with the intention of attracting an audience who will love their game, yet don't have the knowledge of its existence. It's an excellent opportunity to play Dark and Darker. Steam's next Next Fest will run between February 6-13 2023.

There was no further information about the forthcoming Dark and Darker playtest was given, and it's not clear what will be the new features or features. The one thing Ironmace did say is that more than 1 million players participated in the playtest held in December. In a game that was played to only a small number of players before December's test, it's an incredible achievement. The February test could exceed one million participants.

The question that is lingering is the question of whether Ironmace will be able to see the popularity Dark and Darker achieved achieved and decide to launch the game earlier than it was originally planned. If the Premium Steam Early Access version of Dark and Darker was available right now, with a guarantee of servers being open for a while it will undoubtedly do extremely well. But Ironmace might prefer not to do the possibility of. It could be confident that testing the game for a short time before the full launch are more beneficial for the overall game. In any case, Dark and Darker will come out again in February.

The popular alpha playtest for the dungeon crawler with a hardcore multiplayer Dark and Darker has been extended after a request by fans who wanted to extend the playtest. Dark and Darker's latest playtest has seen an incredibly increase of players, partly because of some of Twitch's most well-known streamers taking on the DAD Gold for sale games. This is an opportunity that developer Ironmace Games wants to fully take advantage of even if it requires keeping servers running through the Christmas weekend.