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Expedition: Into Darkness Key Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Engine | Unity Engine |
| Developer | Antediluvian Interactive |
| Publisher | Antediluvian Interactive |
| Release Date | Q4 2026 (Demo Available Aug 6, 2026) |
| Platforms | PC (Steam) |
| Price | $29.99 USD |
Expedition: Into Darkness System Requirements
1080p
tune Minimum – Medium Preset, 1080p (30-45 FPS)
tune Recommended – High Preset, 1080p (60+ FPS)
1440p
tune Enthusiast – Ultra Preset, 1440p (80-100 FPS)
2160p
tune Ultra – Max Preset, 4K (60-90 FPS)
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Core Requirements
- desktop_windowsOperating System: Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit
Requires a 64-bit Windows operating environment to support modern 64-bit memory addressing and direct DirectX 11/12 graphics pipelines.
- memoryDirectX: DirectX 11 / DirectX 12 compatible
Utilizes DirectX rendering pipelines for dynamic lighting calculations, complex tessellated stonework, and particle effects.
- save_altStorage Note: 20 GB available space (Solid State Drive Recommended)
Installing on an SSD substantially reduces loading times when descending into procedural floors and streaming large modular dungeon tilesets.
settings_applications Optimization Notes:
Upscaling: Supports AMD FSR and dynamic resolution scaling to boost frame rates in dark, particle-heavy catacombs.
Key Settings: Shadow Quality, Volumetric Fog, and Ambient Occlusion exert the largest impact on rendering frame rates in unlit caverns.
Expedition: Into Darkness: Map Size and Regions
Expedition: Into Darkness: Post-Launch Content / DLC
Expedition: Into Darkness: Skills & Upgrades Overview
Expedition: Into Darkness: Game Editions
Rank #1
A Deluxe Supporter Edition is planned at $39.99 USD, featuring the digital soundtrack by FMOD spatial sound artists, a high-resolution concept art book, and exclusive cosmetic dyes, coat-of-arms heraldry, and weapon skin engravings that carry over between permadeath character runs.
Expedition: Into Darkness: Cross-Platform / Crossplay
Expedition: Into Darkness: Top 5 Weapons (Subjective/Iconic)
Rank #1
Modular Bastard Sword, a versatile bladed weapon combining slashing reach with a thrusting point for balanced encounters.
Heavy Flanged Mace, the premier blunt
force bludgeon specialized in crushing armored skeletons and goblin skullcaps.
Silver
Edged Halberd, a formidable polearm imbued with sacred silver properties that prevents bonekin from reassembling.
Rank #4
Recurve Yew Bow with Bodkin Arrows, the essential ranged predator tool designed to punch through goblin plate mail from shadows.
Occult Handgonne, a volatile black powder hand
cannon delivering devastating close-range explosive damage at the cost of long reloads and smoke that blindingly conceals approaching monsters.
Expedition: Into Darkness: Specific Game Elements
Explore in-depth equipment, cast, combat mechanics, and world collectibles documented for Expedition: Into Darkness:
Expedition: Into Darkness Weapons
Cast-iron blunt impact weapon designed to crack heavy plate armor, stagger leaping monstrosities, and shatter bonekin skeletons.
A versatile steel blade customizable with various crossguards and pommels, delivering balanced slashing arcs and armor-piercing thrusts.
Rudimentary iron hand-cannon firing lead shot and burning sulfur, devastating close-range clustered monsters with explosive shrapnel.
Flexible yew wood bow paired with hand-crafted bodkin arrows, allowing silent precision eliminations from shadows.
Long-reach pole weapon forged with consecrated silver along its axe blade and spike, permanently preventing undead resurrection.
Expedition: Into Darkness Vehicles
Reinforced horse-drawn cart stationed at the surface camp serving as the primary hub for organizing equipment and gear before raids.
Heavy-duty mechanical wooden lift utilized at base camp extraction points to haul heavy treasure chests up from the subterranean depths.
Expedition: Into Darkness Animals / Creatures
Role: Venomous subterranean spider that coats narrow corridors in flammable web traps and spits paralytic neurotoxins.
Role: Cunning tunnel raiders wearing makeshift iron plates and shields, requiring piercing arrows or heavy blunt trauma to defeat.
Role: Ancient skeletal legionnaires wielding rusted armaments that endlessly rebuild their shattered frames unless struck down with silver.
Role: Skinless, mutated quadrupeds that ambush expeditions from shadowed ceilings, highly vulnerable to lacerating edge damage.
Role: Heavily chitonous ambush predator lurking in flooded cisterns that pounces onto explorers with bone-crushing pincer claws.
Expedition: Into Darkness Characters
Crafting & Concoctions Master
Sightless scholar who brews medical unguents, anti-venom tonics, and illuminating oil draughts from dungeon specimens.
Merchant & Logistics Overseer
Grizzled former expedition captain who buys salvage, sells base supplies, and manages player storage chests in the surface camp.
Abyssal Boss
A twisted high priest consumed by dark god pacts, commanding legions of bonekin from an unholy throne of desecrated relics.
Forbidden Knowledge Broker
Exiled monk who trades forbidden antediluvian lore, unlocks occult skill trees, and brokers contracts with entity patrons.
workspace_premium Top 3 Characters
Camp Quartermaster, an iron
willed veteran in the surface sanctuary who manages trade, stores recovered gear, and purchases dungeon scraps.
Rank #2
Blind Alchemist, an eccentric mystic who brews volatile throwing concoctions, healing salves, and sanity-restoring draughts from subterranean flora.
Rank #3
Occult Heretic, a cloaked scholar banished from the surface church who facilitates dark god pacts and decodes antediluvian runes.
Expedition: Into Darkness Missions / Objectives
Objective: Navigate toxic gas chasms to discover the altar of the Void Father, offer an ancient relic, and survive an onslaught of eldritch horrors to extract.
Objective: Enter the upper crypts, collect 50 units of iron scrap from sarcophagi, and safely reach an extraction rope before light sources fail.
Objective: Venture into the Bonekin Sepulcher with silver-imbued weapons, destroy three reanimation shrines, and eliminate the Bonekin Patriarch.
workspace_premium Top 3 Missions/Objectives
Rank #1
'Descent into the Black Vaults,' an introductory expedition requiring players to breach the shallow crypts, scavenge 50 units of scrap iron, and safely extract before torchlight extinguishes.
'Cleansing the Bonekin Shrine,' a high
tier raid objective tasking a squad with destroying a blasphemous necromantic altar deep within the catacombs using silver-infused weaponry.
Rank #3
'Pact of the Void Father,' an occult pilgrimage requiring players to navigate toxic gas fissures, offer a sacred relic at an abyssal shrine, and survive an onslaught of eldritch horrors to extract with forbidden sorcery.
Expedition: Into Darkness Companions / Summons
Ability: Flies through iron barred gates and small dungeon fissures to reveal enemy positions in adjacent rooms before opening doors.
Ability: Alerts solo adventurers to hidden ceiling ambushes, growls when enemies flank in the dark, and carries secondary torch supplies.
Expedition: Into Darkness Collectibles
Location/Use: Found locked inside trapped subterranean reliquaries; deciphered in camp to unlock advanced forge blueprints.
Location/Use: Mined from pulsating purple geode clusters in abyssal chambers; used as catalyst currency for dark god pacts.
Location/Use: Looted from the remains of fallen noble expeditions; unlocks custom shield emblems and armor livery patterns.
workspace_premium Top 3 Collectibles
Rank #1
are Antediluvian Glyphs, carved ancient stone tablets that yield lost architectural blueprints for base camp expansion.
Rank #2
are Eldritch Relics, unholy artifacts imbued with void energy that can be traded to occult brokers for forbidden pacts or high-grade alchemical reagents.
Rank #3
are Heraldic Crests & Dyes, rare cosmetic unlocks found locked in deep treasure chests that allow players to customize permanent heraldry on shields, cloaks, and armor.
Expedition: Into Darkness Armor
Focus/Stats: Impact Absorption +25%, Stamina Recovery +15%; flexible layered linen padding customizable with heraldic color dyes.
Focus/Stats: Blunt Deflection +70%, Slashing Immunity +80%, Stamina Drain +20%; heavy tempered steel plate providing impenetrable frontal protection.
Focus/Stats: Block Stability +65%, Directional Parry Window +0.2s; heavy wooden shield bound in steel, featuring custom painted heraldry.
Focus/Stats: Slashing Deflection +55%, Piercing Resistance +35%, Movement Speed -5%; interlocking steel rings offering balanced dungeon defense.
Expedition: Into Darkness Clothing / Appearance
Options: Heavy woven travel mantle featuring custom clan embroidery, worn over armor to reduce cold penalties in deep flooded vaults.
Options: Tough boiled leather forearm guards with adjustable brass buckle straps and personalized crest embossing.
Options: Waxed weather-resistant hood and face wrap protecting against noxious spores, tintable with charcoal or forest green dyes.
Expedition: Into Darkness: Other Features & Info
- labelMultiplayer ModesSupports cooperative PvE gameplay for 1 to 5 players per expedition.Groups can venture into the catacombs together, sharing light sources, coordinating ambushes, covering flanks, and reviving downed allies before their bleeding timer expires.Matchmaking allows private password-protected lobbies for friends or public squad matching. While extraction is strictly PvE-focused, friendly fire and environmental traps demand constant team communication.
- labelUser InterfaceEmploys an immersive, minimalist diegetic HUD designed to heighten claustrophobia and tension. Health, stamina, and sanity are represented through subtle bodily audio-visual cues and compact meters.Inventory management features an interactive grid system where items have distinct weight and volume, alongside a modular workbench interface that allows players to inspect 3D weapon cross-sections, switch hilts, blades, and customize leather wraps and metal dyes in real-time.
- labelSound and MusicPowered by the FMOD Audio Engine and Resonance Audio spatialization SDKs.The soundscape emphasizes harrowing psychological horror, featuring echoing dripping water, distant scratching claws inside stone walls, creaking leather armor, and bone-snapping combat impacts.The musical score blends dark ambient drones, medieval hurdy-gurdy droning, and eerie choral chants that crescendo dynamically when horrors breach the player's lantern radius.
- labelGraphics and VisualsBuilt in Unity Engine with high-definition scriptable rendering pipelines.Highlights include advanced volumetric fog, realistic torch and lantern light attenuation, dynamic directional shadow-casting from moving player lanterns, procedural blood splatters, and meticulous dark-fantasy armor texturing exhibiting surface scratches, dirt accumulation, and rust over time.
- labelAccessibility FeaturesProvides a comprehensive suite of accessibility options: full controller support with native DualSense and DualShock controller mappings, adjustable text and UI scaling, stereo and surround sound channel mixing, customizable volume toggles (ambient, effects, voice, master), colorblind palette adjustments for status effects, toggleable camera bob, and custom field-of-view (FOV) sliders.
- labelStory and SettingSet in a bleak, post-cataclysmic medieval dark fantasy world where civilization teeters on the brink of extinction above the surface, Expedition: Into Darkness casts players as scavengers, mercenaries, and outcasts driven by desperation.Far below the barren surface soil lie colossal, labyrinthine ruins left behind by an ancient antediluvian civilization.Rumored to hold forgotten technological wonders, alchemical cures, and forbidden relics from beyond the heavenly Empyrean, these sprawling catacombs beckon expeditions of fortune-seekers.However, the dark depths are consumed by malevolent cosmic forces, eldritch deities, and cursed hordes that taint the minds and flesh of all who dwell within.
- labelTop 3 Mounts/Companionslooks_one Rank #1
Rank #1
Trained War Mastiff, a loyal hound companion that can be brought on solo expeditions to bark at approaching lurkers in the dark and carry small item pouches.
looks_two Rank #2Rank #2
Camp Pack Mule, a resilient beast of burden stationed in the surface sanctuary that expands off-raid cargo storage.
looks_3 Rank #3Rank #3
Scouting Raven, an arcane bird deployed to peer through dungeon gate grates and reveal enemy numbers in adjacent chambers before entry.