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A supernatural event traps a crew of thieves in an auction house; steal valuables, evade monsters, and work together to escape.
Released 18 Jul 2024
Rob a Haunted Auction
Crack Two-Person Safes
Disable Laser Traps
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with a monster. Forget your plan, your mission: survive! Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.
Developed by Piece of Cake studios · Published by Piece of Cake studios, Kepler Ghost







In this co-op survival horror prologue, one to four thieves are trapped in an auction house when a supernatural event interrupts their heist. Players must contend with creatures inside the building while trying to complete their objectives.
Explore the auction house for valuable loot and mission items, solve cooperative minigames, and get past security systems such as lasers and cameras. Some tasks require teammates to work together, and the building’s layout offers different ways to reach objectives.
Choose equipment such as a lock-picking set, hacking device, flashlight, or crowbar, and use found items with your team. Carrying more loot makes you noisier, so balance stealing with staying hidden. Escape through the exit or hide from the creature until morning.
Players often enjoy the teamwork, especially the chaotic and funny moments that arise while friends try to loot, solve tasks, and avoid monsters together. Reviews also describe tense encounters and, for some, an effective horror atmosphere supported by the sound design.
Dark Hours: Prologue is a free version of Dark Hours. Experience the core gameplay and get a taste of the experience that awaits in the full game.
Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for 1-4 players. Just when you think you've pulled off the perfect heist, your break-in is suddenly interrupted by an unexpected supernatural event. You find yourself trapped in the auction house you came to rob and you realize with horror that you are no longer alone... A demonic creature has taken over the place and you have become its new prey. Will you manage to escape? Will you survive this apocalyptic night?
The Auction House: Explore the area in search of a way out, solve co-op minigames, deactivate lasers and security cameras, fill your bag with valuable loot, and take advantage of the building's secrets to get out of there.
New monsters: Encounter up to 2 creatures, each with distinct behaviors and unique abilities.
Unique items and co-op action to make your heist a success.
Cooperate: Dark Hours is a 1-4 player cooperative experience where you must work together to escape the evil entity that is hunting you. You can't survive alone, stay close to your teammates and collaborate to find your way out of this nightmare.
Manage your equipment: A lock-picking set, a hacking device, a flashlight or a crowbar? Pick your gear and find all sorts of items during your exploration. Use them wisely with your teammates and you may have a chance to get out alive. Or not…
Escape or survive: There are only two ways out: find the exit or hide from the creature until morning. Will you make it through this dreadful night?
Steal: Remember, your first objective is to rob this place, so make sure to steal every valuable item you find. Score big!
Best Thieves: Carrying all that illegally-acquired loot can be tiring for your friends, so don't hesitate to discreetly offer your help by emptying their bags to steal the most precious items. There is no honor among thieves!
Be stealthy: Don’t make too much noise or the monster will find you. Be careful: the more you loot, the louder you get. In case of extreme urgency, you can (sneakily) fill your teammates' bags so they are noisier than you.
Survive: Seek refuge wherever you can or push your teammate to the entity's clutches. Survival justifies any action. Between us, it's better him than you, right?
Live a terrifying and fun co-op horror experience where you will discover more about the origin of the dark hours! …and who your friends really are!
This game contains flashing lights that may make it unsuitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy or other photosensitive conditions. Player discretion is advised.


| Platforms | Windows |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Dark Hours: Prologue supports 1-4 players. It is presented as a cooperative survival horror game with online co-op. Store features also list single-player. Players work together to escape, solve co-op tasks, and can also interfere with teammates through pushing, stealing loot, tranquilizing, and noise-making. Reviews indicate public/random lobbies and in-game voice chat with proximity behavior. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is indicated. One review explicitly states mod compatibility: none and workshop: not supported. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
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