DreadOut
DreadOut
Game
Game2016
DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark
Developer Digital Happiness
DreadOut is a 2014 survival horror video game from independent developer Digital Happiness for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and OS X. A port for PlayStation 4 was announced but never released. The story is about a group of high school students in Indonesia who come across an old abandoned town. There they are confronted with ghosts and paranormal activities, and one of the students, the protagonist Linda, begins to… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
230 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
105 positive · 41 negative
95% range 64–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 105 | 41 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 15 | 7 | 48 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
360 of 461 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
74% recommend · 123 yes, 43 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 166 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (922 of 1,172 positive).
Players find it a decent but flawed expansion that reuses assets from the original game. [1][2][3] Many praise the boss-focused gameplay and unique ghost designs, but criticize the clunky combat and frustrating difficulty. [4][5][6][7] Some reviewers note it lacks the atmosphere of the first game and has bugs that can soft-lock progress. [8][9][10]
Liked
Representative posts
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This game is mostly combat, and the combat in this game is extremely unfun.
- [1]
It's a standalone expansion pack for DreadOut. While it falls slightly short of the main game, its focus on boss battles, along with the design, sound elements, and unique graphics, still creates a well-matched and effective horror experience.
- [5]
I barely recommend this game. It's a cool concept, and I liked the music and some of the expanded ghost scenarios, but the game is so stupidly difficult and nonsensical. The fact that it barely used any new locations and instead recycled old ones is just the icing on the cake. Still, if you can put up with the artificial difficulty and don't mind dying your way through fighting bosses, it has some cool stuff to it. …
- [3]
This is more of a neutral recommendation, this game does somethings bad, but a lot of things wrong. Right off the bat, this game reuses all the assets from the previous game, but instead of being a linear story, you now start in a hub where you play mini-levels in any order you please, it is essentially a boss rush, and each boss is somewhat unique and not just copied and pasted from the previous game. Its almost …
- [2]
Short standalone DLC for the original DreadOut that is supposed to take place between Act 1 and Act 2 of the game. The content itself feels quite condensed as the gameplay revolves around Linda exploring eight separate dimensions you can pick from a main hub. In these dimensions, which consist of small maps with mostly locations and assets from the original game, you have to find certain items to progress as well as …
Summarised from 34 of the 243 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
74% of the 166 Steam reviewers we collected recommend DreadOut: Keepers of The Dark. The complaint that keeps coming up: combat is clunky and frustrating. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
DreadOut received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 230 · most liked firstSteam Deck / Gaming News #9. This week’s interesting bits and pieces in Steam Deck / Linux and general gaming that I have found is a *lighter* version. Just a small handful of things I found and wanted to share here. So don't judge me too harshly! As is now tradition (signed in blood) each time I swear this will become a weekly event, it is only a handful of days between it and the next! So as always, this is just the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me…
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam Deck / Gaming News #9. This week’s interesting bits and pieces in Steam Deck / Linux and general gaming that I have found is a *lighter* version. Just a small handful of things I found and wanted to share here. So don't judge me too harshly! As is now tradition (signed in blood) each time I swear this will become a weekly event, it is only a handful of days between it and the next! So as always, this is just the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me…
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neutral · AI labelView post →This game is mostly combat, and the combat in this game is extremely unfun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Eventually she's gonna try to take a pic and it's gonna say memory full.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed playing Dreadout and I like Signalis and Disco Elysium and I think having a wider range of experiences is really good in gaming. I think it'd be really good to see a lot more African game companies and creators. Is there somewhere I could start looking to see what's coming up?
positive · AI labelView post →It's a standalone expansion pack for DreadOut. While it falls slightly short of the main game, its focus on boss battles, along with the design, sound elements, and unique graphics, still creates a well-matched and effective horror experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OMFG THEY DID IT. New DreadOut game AHHHH 😱🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW VIDEO!! We return to the DreaDout series to see if the 2nd game improves on what came before... Special thanks to both @thehorrordiner.bsky.social and @pimscrypt.bsky.social for lending their voices to the video! ❤️ youtu.be/pZEnw08TjZo
neutral · AI labelView post →LEUCANTHEMUM EYES IS OUT It's a short horror point and click game inspired by DreadOut and Silent Hill Download now: kuraishimi.itch.io/leucanthemum... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedevbr #renpy #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →We got past Act 1 in DreadOut and I suspect that the game itself is not really that long. Personally I'm pretty interested and invested but I think we probably have maybe another week in us with it. To give people a break from the horror I might do Hyper Light Drifter, Transistor, or GRIS after.
positive · AI labelView post →INTRO I wasn’t particularly a fan of the original Dreadout game, though I did find it to be a game with a lot of potential. So I was very excited to play this standalone DLC and see what they’ve improved upon, but all I found was a depressingly frustrating game. STORY Keepers of the Dark takes place during Act 2 of the original Dreadout and is set in between the events of the mansion segment and the final boss fight when Linda was dragged into the mirror realm. Instead of having the story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We picked the game we're playing this session - the DreadOut DLC looks like it's mostly just a boss rush mode, so we'll do Resident Evil (and finish up the RE games for now!) and move on to DreadOut 2 after!
neutral · AI labelView post →[Prime] *DreadOut 2*, fantasy horror indie. > DreadOut 2 is a unique take on the third-person action adventure survival game genre with aspects of Indonesian supernatural lore and incorporates mixed gameplay of city exploring, “DreadOut” style smartphone ghost hunting, and new action-packed battles within the DreadOut supernatural world. > Explore a sleepy lil' town at both night and day to solve the ghastly urban legends that haunt within. Interact with various unique NPCs and tons of…
neutral · AI labelView post →So this sequel is not so great. But then again, neither was the first game, so that's not unexpected. Though this is better in that it runs smoother, worse in every other category. You start out in a hall with 8 doors, each taking you to a locale from the first game. There you are tasked with banishing a ghost or two. Some ghosts require you to find items hidden throughout the other hallway doors before being able to discover them, which is cool. The ghosts you have to banish are essentially…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nope! It's buggy, clunky and repetitive gameplay. Generally it feels like the attempt to make a sequel to the original with as little time and resources possible. While recycling any levels or at least parts of it from the first one. If I had bought the game for the full price I'd felt scammed. Also you can get soft locked by some sprits. Like they hit you, you fell to the ground and because Lindaaaaaaaaaaa takes so long to stand up again they meanwhile charge another attack and hit you again,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🇮🇩 Indonesia-based @digitalhappiness.bsky.social announced the next chapter in their 3rd person horror series - DreadOut 3. Slated for 2026, the game is inspired by Asian-Indonesian urban legends where you play as Linda traversing between the world of the living & the unseen.
neutral · AI labelView post →60. DreadOut A genuinely great Indonesian horror game that brings some legitimate scares into an adventure that is just engrossing. With plenty to see in this slice of an abandoned Indonesian town and school, and a story that keeps you guessing, I have a hard time not recommending this one.
positive · AI labelView post →+20 SOCIAL CREDIT ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢁⠈⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⡀⠭⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠄⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⡆⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣼⣿⣿⠿⠶⠙⣿⡟⠡⣴⣿⣽⣿⣧⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣟⣭⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣴⣶⣿⣿⢄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣩⣿⣿⣿⡏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⡋⠘⠷⣦⣀⣠⡶⠁⠈⠁⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠃⣴⣶⡔⠒⠄⣠⢀⠄⠄⠄⡨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡘⠿⣷⣿⠿⠟⠃⠄⠄⣠⡇⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⢁⣷⣠⠄⠄⠄⠄⣀⣠⣾⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠙⠻ ⡿⠟⠋⠁⠄⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⡯⢓⣴⣾⣿⣿⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⡟⣷⠄⠹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ +1 WAIFU ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠉⠄⠁⠄⠄⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⠄⠄⠄⠐⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⠄⢀⡀⠠⠃⡐⡀⠠⣶⠄⠄⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⠄⠰⣤⣕⣿⣾⡇⠄⢛⠃⠄⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My full playthrough of #DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is now uploaded over on the VOD channel! There's a total of 49 of mine and @sheiky.bsky.social 's casual playthroughs uploaded over there now :) #horror #gaming #streamvods www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LX7...
neutral · AI labelView post →DreadOut 3 - Official Trailer | Horror Game Awards 2025 gamingheartscollection.net/2025/12/27/d... #gaming #videogames #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Screenshot from DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark. I played this game a while back and I really enjoyed it. I really like the DreadOut series and I'm excited for the upcoming third game. Anyone else play this awesome game?
positive · AI labelView post →www.twitch.tv/null_convent... Okay! We're gonna get back on the DreadOut. Motorcycle? Or something. The ghost motorcycle. Anyway don't worry about it, let's just play the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Has anyone played DreadOut?. I just finished DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark after playing the first one. I was pretty impressed with both games seeing as they were the first "serious" games to come out of Indonesia. I really enjoy learning about Indonesian folklore as well. I'm playing DreadOut 2 now so I'll probably be posting about that. For anyone who hasn't heard of DreadOut, it's an Indonesian survival horror game that often gets compared to Fatal Frame. You use a phone camera to banish…
positive · AI labelView post →Had a great time w/ @pagecartoons.bsky.social in My Friendly Neighborhood, and in DreadOut w/ @kiistarr.bsky.social , but oh man DreadOut was... it sure was a game. Anywho, double stream day done~! Y'all showed me so much love in many ways 💚 Raids went to TotsGerblin & Stroobly ~!
negative · AI labelView post →~ STORY ~ 🔲 No story ✅ Not main aspect 🔲 Bad story ✅ Average 🔲 Good 🔲 It'll replace your life ~ GAMEPLAY ~ 🔲 Lifeless/static 🔲 Poor ✅ Average 🔲 Good 🔲 Excellent ~ GRIND ~ ✅ Nothing to grind 🔲 Isn't necessary to progress 🔲 Average grind level 🔲 A lot of grind 🔲 Too much grind ~ MULTIPLAYER ~ ✅ No Multiplayer 🔲 Co-op 🔲 PvP 🔲 PvE ~ AUDIENCE ~ 🔲 Kids 🔲 Teens ✅ Adults 🔲 Everyone ~ UPDATES ~ ✅ Life cycle completed 🔲 Last year 🔲 Once every year 🔲 A couple per year 🔲 Every…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{Graphics}--- ☐ Masterpiece ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Will do ☐ Bad ☐ Awful ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Try not to get addicted ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Nothing special ☐ Ehh ☐ Bad ☐ Just dont ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Everyone ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☑ Minimum ☐ Decent (Depends on your craft) ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually, not going to get a game. Just going to focus on OW and some DLC's until RE9 (Especially since Dreadout comes Sunday)
neutral · AI labelView post →This is probably our last night for streaming DreadOut 2! It's been a blast honestly and I can tell I haven't found all the stuff that's in the game yet, but we're close to the end so I think it's full speed ahead! Come hang out and talk about what's next with me! : D
positive · AI labelView post →Here's this week's schedule - Dreadout 2 - the game about photography and meeting dead people! Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 PM Central Time at twitch.tv/null_convention!
neutral · AI labelView post →This was probably the actually scariest moment in the game, just a little thing but it really worked. DreadOut starts with a spike, solid intro, then the school environment was a little slow but not bad, just not tight. After that it really picks up into the story Digital Happiness wanted to tell.
neutral · AI labelView post →I barely recommend this game. It's a cool concept, and I liked the music and some of the expanded ghost scenarios, but the game is so stupidly difficult and nonsensical. The fact that it barely used any new locations and instead recycled old ones is just the icing on the cake. Still, if you can put up with the artificial difficulty and don't mind dying your way through fighting bosses, it has some cool stuff to it. 51% recommended.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a cool sequel about the first game that explain the ending,but its literally only bossfight nothing more than that and sadly doesn't have the same atmosphere like his predecessor.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since it's Halloween what's the scariest game you've played? For me it's DreadOut Keepers of the Dark. This series is pretty spooky on it's own but KotD specifically is crazy spooky at parts. I actually refused to play this game again for several years because there's a few areas that got me so bad.
positive · AI labelView post →Very hard, fun when you figure out the puzzles, i am stuck at a boss battle right now in the first realm, i believe there are 8 different realms in this one with different environments in each one. A continuation of the first one where Linda also is able to see flashbacks in this blue spiritual like aura that is verrrrry realistic because i have seen real spirits and auras and the colors in this are very similar to in real life, such amazing detail and it is super cool to see all the scenes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7/10 Exorcism with the Camera I must admit that in the beginning, I kinda lost interest in Room 101. I was confused about what I had to do, but a few years later (the last time I opened this game was in 2017) I finally returned to this game to give it another shot, and I was really into it this time. The game is actually fun, it's a bit different from the first one. You have to go to different rooms, collect stuff, banish demons, and sometimes you need to return to certain rooms when you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We finished the game. Definitely planning to play DreadOut 2 soon. Will plan it out. Thank you raiders @theeternalnyx.bsky.social @lilimvixen.bsky.social @sporesan.bsky.social We raided @azeriaeveexe.bsky.social who was playing RV There Yet with friends!
positive · AI labelView post →DreadOut, Digital Happiness, 2014 It's like Fatal Frame but not at all actually. Set in Indonesia, this game includes a variety of folkloric entities and mysticism and offers a solid, atmospheric horror experience.
neutral · AI labelView post →Prompt 13 from my #artchallenge2023 was the "Demi Pintu" from the game Dread Out. Had some issues with both the hair and the hands. #DreadOut #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →Dreadout is a game I really wanted to like but I don't see a remaster fixing most of the design issues that made it unfortunately terrible
negative · AI labelView post →1/10 A complete rip-off of the first game. Nothing felt new or original and in some ways made the first game look even worse by dividing it into smaller sections. Just play the first one and skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keepers of The Dark was supposed to be a DLC for the first dreadout but it became so big they made it another game or a "standalone expansion". The way it's done is that you have 8 doors and two bosses in each door that you can fight and vanish. The combat in DreadOut has always been.. clunky. Every attack can put you into a stunlock and whenever you die, you are taking into a "Limbo" section where you need to press sprint + W for like 20 seconds before you can go back to the game to just get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A slight improvement from the first game yet still mundane. I have no idea what the storyline is supposed to be, it all feels like an excuse to have a bevy of strange ghosts. This wouldn't be a negative if half of the designs weren't awful and battling them didn't take an unnecessary amount of time. The gameplay is nowhere near the level of quality that justifies this much repetition, leading to the majority of players either grudgingly pressing on for completion's sake or just abandoning it.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel that the previous game is better than this one. - There’s no Indonesian audio like previous game - For the bosses (the keepers)… it’s lack of ghost from Indonesian folklore. What the hell Nine Tails doing in this game. - DreadOut game but in boss mode. - I actually don’t like slow running speed from previous game, and it still exists in this game. This make fighting some bosses are so frustrating.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In addition to Broomstick Exorcist, Digital Happiness (Indonesia) has revealed more info and gameplay footage of DreadOut 3. By the looks of it, it emphasizes more on "phone combat" like in the first game but with more Murdered: Soul Suspect-ish #indiegame #indie #DHXP2026
neutral · AI labelView post →Cool, start in a hallway with lots of doors- I started with 101 and was attacked by enemies (are they Sperm????) that seem to just swim through the walls, hit you ONE TIME hard enough to fling you 10', character is too slow to recover before the next attack, so you can get hit like six times but you're stun locked THAT WHOLE TIME so it's infinitely WORSE than one hit kill
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark Genre: Horror / Supernatural, Folklore Perspective: 3rd Person My Rating:⭐⭐🔹🔹🔹 💙Summary (TLDR): Sadly I can't recommend this "DLC" of Dreadout whereas the main-game was a gorgeous treat. This "DLC" was very boring to me personally as it’s basically just a “shooter” or mercenaries-mode where you pew pew with a camera flash. It is not entirely bad but it wasn’t anything special either! The Positives & "Not So Goods" The game takes place in a “HUB” as to say…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short standalone DLC for the original DreadOut that is supposed to take place between Act 1 and Act 2 of the game. The content itself feels quite condensed as the gameplay revolves around Linda exploring eight separate dimensions you can pick from a main hub. In these dimensions, which consist of small maps with mostly locations and assets from the original game, you have to find certain items to progress as well as banish hostile spirits located through them. I have to say that from a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I actually liked this game more that the the basic DreadOut one. Puzzles here are better and I doubt you will be lost in what to do. There is more story explaining the events of the original game. It is still not clearly understandable but at least it is told a little better then in the main game. Also I liked the new monsters and their stories, I think they too are made better. They have unique designs and much more description about them. However, the game is still not very scary and some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DreadOut was a pretty cool game. Here's some fan art! #dreadout #fanart
positive · AI labelView post →DreadOut 2 - the game of calling a bike taxi to a mystery location on your app and getting chatted up by a dead biker who doesn't really mind being a ghost but he did totally run into that drunk guy (drunk guy was jaywalking and he's fine).
neutral · AI labelView post →this feels more like an extension to dreadout than its own game to me. story-wise, it seems like this game takes place before the final boss of the first game, which is cool. i love the new environments and the remixed versions of the old ones. i wanted more clarity with miss siska seeing as she's on the cover art, but there wasn't as much as i expected. nevertheless, i enjoyed this game a lot. the new ghosts were very fun. unlike the first game, i think i only encountered one bug, if that. i…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I just learned of the Dreadout 3 trailer and the remaster of the first game. I have had the first game on my Steam account for YEARS without ever giving it a full playthrough. .....should I? #letsplay #horrorgames #horror #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting DreadOut, our next horror game playthrough tonight！ Should be starting in about 10mins. 私たちの次のホラーゲームは「DreadOut」！ 10分間ぐらいにストリームは始めます twitch.tv/pixlmancy
neutral · AI labelView post →I played a demo of the first Dreadout long ago. I need to play the full game eventually
neutral · AI labelView post →Happening now! Come say hey and maybe win a free game key 🥰 twitch.tv/d4wny3l #giveaway #ps5game #dreadout #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →This DLC is actually good and interesting, expanding the lore more Honestly, the...shading of the gameplay..? Felt really hard to watch for me, especially in the darkness, but beside that, the game is fine I don't know what to say else.....uhhhhh....the gator lady in the end was sexy asf
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DreadOut DLC is beaten. I'll start writing the script next week. With it being such a short game I could get this video out late December/early January is all goes well. 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →time for some old skool scary game. Playing Dreadout over at www.twitch.tv/mattchewie888
neutral · AI labelView post →I used to tell people that Fatal Frame 2 was my scariest game ever up until I played this series. Fatal Frame games have definitely gotten a bit unintentionally goofier over the years too. The DreadOut games somehow manage to maintain a good balance between goofy and terrifying.
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