Dark and Darker is moving away from its original free-to-play model, and its developer has pledged an announcement for a playtest soon.
Developer Ironmace has recently been the subject of an intense battle among employees. While a playtest was originally meant to take place later in April, the game was pulled from Steam last month in March due to a DMCA takedown request, which Ironmace later called "baseless". Right now, no one yet knows if the playtest is even taking place as originally planned.
