The early access version of Dark and Light has launched – but there are positive and negative sides.
Dark and Light could be compared to Conan Exiles. It is a sandbox where survival is the top priority. There aren’t great quests. You will be thrown into a specific location in the vast game world based on your chosen race and start exploring and surviving. Food plays a significant role. So you must always pay attention to eating.
Conan Exiles sends its regards
Mining resources with bare hands or tools, or even with magic, is a core element of the MMO. From these resources, you create new, more effective tools, weapons, armors, and materials for building.
If you’re thinking of Conan Exiles, you’re actually spot on. Dark and Light plays almost like Funcom’s online survival game. The further you level up, the more recipes for new objects you unlock, becoming more powerful over time with better equipment and higher attributes.
Over time, you can also build your own house as a retreat and even create entire castles or cities together with other players. An interesting aspect is that you can tame all monsters in the world and use them as companions and sometimes as mounts. The magic system is also exciting. You cast spells using wands that you need to charge with spells, and you must unlock the spells just like all craftable objects in the game.
Online or alone – you decide
Unlike Conan Exiles, you are not in a desert oasis, but in a large fantasy world populated by NPCs – and by other players if you play in online mode.
Just like Conan Exiles, it is also possible to play alone in a single-player mode or set up your own server where you determine the rules – including whether PvP is possible and how long respawn times last. On official servers, you choose between PvE or PvP. However, only about 100 players are allowed per server, which does not make Dark and Light a classic MMORPG.
The current rating of the game on Steam is mostly negative. Players criticize mainly the performance of the game, the many lags, incomprehensible game instructions, and bugs.
The general consensus is that Dark and Light is not yet in an acceptable state even for an early access game. Even on powerful PCs, the performance does not exceed 30 fps. Crashes occur frequently, graphical errors arise, and loading times can be very long. However, the developers are already working hard to improve Dark and Light.
The positive voices, even if there are currently a few, state that it is still an early access game and not significantly different or worse than Conan Exiles.
Have you had the chance to play Dark and Light? What is your opinion on the survival MMO?
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