How many people are playing Repel the Darkness Playtest right now?

Repel the Darkness Playtest has 0 players on Steam right now, with a 24-hour peak of 0 and an all-time peak of 0 on 7 Sep 2026.

What is the all-time peak player count of Repel the Darkness Playtest?

0 concurrent players on 7 Sep 2026.

When was Repel the Darkness Playtest released on Steam?

Repel the Darkness Playtest was released on Steam on 15 May 2026.

Repel the Darkness Playtest Events

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Game update30 Aug 2026Absence of LightHighlights · Darkness: monsters can now darken your tiles. A Darkened tile has no effect until the Darkness is removed. · Illumination counters Darkness. Illuminated monsters cannot darken tiles. · Relics: On rare occasions a relic will spawn on the board. Place a tile next to it to find out what it does. · Placement previews now show exactly what a tile or unit placement would change as UI chi…Game update23 Aug 2026Perks and Counted StacksHighlights · Reworked perks. Perks were the least meaningful choice in a run. The rebuild is meant to make every perk shape how you play and give each run its own identity. · Counted stacks. Almost all status effects used to be binary: a monster either had one or not. Reworked status effects now come in counted stacks, so the question is no longer whether to commit to a strategy, but instead by…

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30 days ago	Game update	Auto Save and Steam Cloud Highlights · The game now saves all progress automatically mid-level so that you can quit and continue at any time. · The game now supports Steam Cloud, i.e. your save games are automatically synced to Steam. Quests · The first tile of each level can now be placed on any neighbor of your base instead of just the first quest's spot. · Added a preview of how quests change during tile placement. T…	—
37 days ago	Game update	Rebindable Shortcuts and Settings Menu New Content · Extended the settings menu · Added rebindable shortcuts · Added a pause mode UX & QoL · Added a full settings screen with Game, Graphics, Audio and Controls tabs, available from both the main menu and the pause menu. All changes apply and save instantly. · Added rebindable shortcuts: every action in the Controls tab can be remapped, with any number of bindings per action, includin…	—
45 days ago	Game update	Guiding Light New Content · Added a new augment "Guiding Light" to the Base. Monsters · Prevented a frustrating situation where one ranged Nightpiercer could make you lose your game. From now on, ranged monsters advance toward the base between attacks instead of standing still at maximum range forever. This way, instead of losing the match because of one Nightpiercer, the player only gets taxed a few attacks…	—
51 days ago	Game update	Automating Automatons New Content · Added one new tile augment to Perch. Monsters · Improved the monster spawn algorithm to further reduce bad RNG. Tougher monsters tend to appear in later rounds, e.g. ranged Nightpiercers no longer appears in a level's earliest rounds, where no unit could reach it. Also, in late rounds monster spawns tend more to spawn 360 degrees around the base. Units · Automatons can now spawn o…	—
58 days ago	Game update	The Synergy Update Highlights · This update puts the run in your hands: strategy and synergies decide the outcome. · Unit deck building now shapes a run identity: every unit type is available from the first level, and each unit reward permanently adds an augment to one of your unit types. Your picks accumulate into strategic depth, countering the ever-growing monster deck. · I deliberately left the new content un…	—
2 months ago	Game update	Improved Path FInding Path finding is now way more intuitive and plausible. · The path preview when hovering over a monster spawn or monster is now always exactly the path that the monster will take. · Non-swimming monsters and units are now properly never going through a River. · Guards now preemptively intercept monsters to reduce the frustrating situation where Guards don't catch monsters walking over their tile.	—
2 months ago	Game update	Roguelite Deck-builder Update Highlights · Added roguelite runs . · Added run-persistent unit & monster deck-building . · Added run-persistent perks . · Added augments for units and monsters. · Added an ascension ladder. · Added a Compendium . Monsters · Reworked the monster spawn algorithm. Each MonsterSpawn now always spawns the same monster type. · Reduced the max monster count per spawn by 1, so more spawns activate and…	—

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30 days ago

Game update

Auto Save and Steam Cloud

Highlights · The game now saves all progress automatically mid-level so that you can quit and continue at any time. · The game now supports Steam Cloud, i.e. your save games are automatically synced to Steam. Quests · The first tile of each level can now be placed on any neighbor of your base instead of just the first quest's spot. · Added a preview of how quests change during tile placement. T…

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37 days ago

Game update

Rebindable Shortcuts and Settings Menu

New Content · Extended the settings menu · Added rebindable shortcuts · Added a pause mode UX & QoL · Added a full settings screen with Game, Graphics, Audio and Controls tabs, available from both the main menu and the pause menu. All changes apply and save instantly. · Added rebindable shortcuts: every action in the Controls tab can be remapped, with any number of bindings per action, includin…

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45 days ago

Game update

Guiding Light

New Content · Added a new augment "Guiding Light" to the Base. Monsters · Prevented a frustrating situation where one ranged Nightpiercer could make you lose your game. From now on, ranged monsters advance toward the base between attacks instead of standing still at maximum range forever. This way, instead of losing the match because of one Nightpiercer, the player only gets taxed a few attacks…

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51 days ago

Game update

Automating Automatons

New Content · Added one new tile augment to Perch. Monsters · Improved the monster spawn algorithm to further reduce bad RNG. Tougher monsters tend to appear in later rounds, e.g. ranged Nightpiercers no longer appears in a level's earliest rounds, where no unit could reach it. Also, in late rounds monster spawns tend more to spawn 360 degrees around the base. Units · Automatons can now spawn o…

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58 days ago

Game update

The Synergy Update

Highlights · This update puts the run in your hands: strategy and synergies decide the outcome. · Unit deck building now shapes a run identity: every unit type is available from the first level, and each unit reward permanently adds an augment to one of your unit types. Your picks accumulate into strategic depth, countering the ever-growing monster deck. · I deliberately left the new content un…

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2 months ago

Game update

Improved Path FInding

Path finding is now way more intuitive and plausible. · The path preview when hovering over a monster spawn or monster is now always exactly the path that the monster will take. · Non-swimming monsters and units are now properly never going through a River. · Guards now preemptively intercept monsters to reduce the frustrating situation where Guards don't catch monsters walking over their tile.

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2 months ago

Game update

Roguelite Deck-builder Update

Highlights · Added roguelite runs . · Added run-persistent unit & monster deck-building . · Added run-persistent perks . · Added augments for units and monsters. · Added an ascension ladder. · Added a Compendium . Monsters · Reworked the monster spawn algorithm. Each MonsterSpawn now always spawns the same monster type. · Reduced the max monster count per spawn by 1, so more spawns activate and…

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