Dark and Darker Guides
Whether you're dropping into your first dungeon or fine-tuning a meta loadout, our guides break down how every class plays and how to build it. Start with a class guide below, then jump into the build calculator to put it into practice.
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Class guides
Every class in Dark and Darker, with its strengths and weaknesses, how to play it, and the build directions that actually work, written by players and kept current with each patch.
New to Dark and Darker?
Dark and Darker is an extraction dungeon crawler where your gear, perks and skills decide everything, and you can't respec mid-raid. Pick a class that matches how you like to play, learn its kit on its class guide, then test loadouts risk-free in the build calculator before you commit real gear.
Builds and stats, explained
A build is more than a weapon: every ring, piece of armor and perk shifts your real numbers: health, damage, move speed, magic and more. The build calculator recalculates them live as you experiment, and you can browse what others run in community builds to learn proven setups.