Game overview
Darkwind
Darkwind is a multiplayer online, simultaneous turn-based game of vehicular combat. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, it involves physics-based tactical combat and deathracing, online leagues, cooperative wilderness scouting and looting, trading and camp-based crafting. Live and online since 2006!
- Last tracked players
- 2
- All-time peak
- 6
- 24-hour change
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- Steam reviews
- 51.3% positive 468 reviews · via SteamSpy
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Battle for survival and supremacy in a gritty post-apocalyptic world of vehicular combat where strategy and tactics determines who wins.
Darkwind is a simultaneous turn-based, physics-based game. It is often described as "X-Com meets Mad Max" or "Car Wars [1980s boardgame] Online".
Darkwind is the only car game we know of that combines accurate physics with turn-based play. Not just turn based racing and Death-racing (with multiple cars), but also combats with up to 20 vehicles is where you realise why turn based is a must in this game. Running 10 trucks at once through a slaver ambush in Badlands, managing speed, steering, gun fire from anywhere up to 8 points on a truck would not be possible in real time.

Manage your gang, train your characters, design your own cars and scavenge for parts. Make your fortune in racing, deathracing and arena combat leagues, or venture into the wilderness and engage in tense multiplayer battles with pirates, traders and other players.

Trade for parts, cars and weapons in the dynamic economy of a world where your characters will age, sustain permanent injuries, and die. The detailed weapon stats, and the detailed combat system with physics, critical hits, injuries and healing, psychology, leadership and perma-death ensures a strategic challenge like few other games.
Award winning in the indie gaming community, acclaimed in the main-stream computer gaming press and praised in the war-gaming media: play it yourself to find out why.
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Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL compatible
- Additional Notes: very light on requirements, runs fine on netbooks etc. although 1024x768 resolution preferred
Recommended
Recommended:- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 350 MB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL compatible
macOS
Minimum
Minimum:- OS: Leopard (10.5)
- Processor: Core i5 or PowerPC
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL compatible
- Additional Notes: very light on requirements, runs fine on netbooks etc. although 1024x768 resolution preferred
Recommended
Recommended:- OS: Leopard (10.5) or higher
- Processor: Core Duo i5
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL compatible
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 350 MB available space
- Sound Card: OpenAL compatible
Game details Languages, features & support
- Publisher
- Psychic Software
- Brazilian rating
- 14
- Steam Germany rating
- 16
- Features
- Multi-player, MMO, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, In-App Purchases, Family Sharing
- Languages
- English*
*languages with full audio support - Website
- Official website ↗
- Support
- Support site ↗
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features
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Structured language support (1)
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
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| English | Yes | Yes | No |
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