{"rewrite":{"id":"r_c35035f10431d349cb4be168","clusterId":"c_74bfb7926868fb14e95dd481","slug":"greed-darkness-demo-adds-13-languages-including-japanese-on-steam","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Greed \u0026 Darkness Demo Adds 13 Languages Including Japanese on Steam","summary":"Rescue Party updated the Steam demo for its first-person dungeon crawler Greed \u0026 Darkness on September 30, 2026, adding support for 13 languages including Japanese. The game puts players inside a cursed fortress in search of treasure, with a torch as the main tool: lighting it reveals hidden paths and traps but makes the player easier for enemies to spot, so light and darkness are used by situation. It began as a student project at a vocational training school and later found a publisher. The same update adds a combat tutorial, fixes a bug related to inventory saving, corrects the button display for Xbox controllers, and supports tutorial video playback on Steam Deck. Greed \u0026 Darkness is scheduled to arrive soon on PC via Steam.","whyItMatters":"The demo update turns a Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth find into a multilingual build, signaling a wider release push for the student-origin project that 4Gamer first played at the EdCorp booth on September 17, 2026.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eDenfaminicogamer describes the game as a hand-drawn 2D pixel-art dungeon crawler rendered to look like 3D, rather than the 3D dungeon crawler other coverage uses. Players carry a sword and shield and fight with parrying and thrown bombs.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe demo\u0026#39;s hero is a young man appointed by the town mayor and told not to leave the dungeon until he brings back 1,000 gold. Dungeon combat is real time. Enemies attack by swinging weapons upward, right, and left, so parrying requires matching the swing direction with correct timing. Some enemies throw bombs, which can be sent back the same way.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSafe Rooms inside the dungeon let players buy items and rest. Their proprietor tells the player, \u0026#34;During the nighttime hours, you must not walk around the dungeon.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDenfaminicogamer calls the combat a \u0026#34;memorization game\u0026#34; where timing and positioning matter, easy to feel growth in but unforgiving of a single mistake. Giving in to greed and misjudging when to withdraw leads to \u0026#34;ruin.\u0026#34;\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Lighting a torch in Greed \u0026 Darkness reveals hidden paths and traps but makes you easier for enemies to spot. The demo now supports 13 languages including Japanese on Steam.","twitterPost":"Greed \u0026 Darkness started as a student project, gained popularity, and landed a publisher. Its Steam demo now supports 13 languages including Japanese, with a combat tutorial added in the same update.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Rescue Party's first-person dungeon crawler Greed \u0026 Darkness updated its Steam demo on September 30, 2026 with 13 languages including Japanese. The update also adds a combat tutorial and fixes inventory saving. The game began as a student project and is scheduled to arrive soon on PC via Steam.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/044/G104422/20261001004/\",\"title\":\"Gather treasure with a torch in hand. First-person 3D dungeon crawler \\\"Greed \\u0026 Darkness\\\" demo released on Steam. 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