Darkest Dungeon Scam on Windows Store

Darkest Dungeon, a game developed by Red Hook Studios is a rogue-like dungeon crawler currently being sold on Steam, the Humble Store and recently the Windows Store. However, the game is not meant to be sold on the Windows Store.

The game is listed on Steam and Humble for $19.99 by developer Red Hook Studios whereas on the Windows Stores it has been listed for $3.99 by Balaji Chowdary, who is a somewhat notorious seller of video-game software that he does not own.

If you have purchased Darkest Dungeon from the Windows Store, then you've technically just acquired pirated software; as the game listed is a pirated version. But it's not your fault; it's Microsoft's fault for not policing their own store to an acceptable standard. However, your copies of Darkest Dungeon are likely to be revoked once this issue has been resolved.

Tyler Sigman, co-president of Red Hook Studios took the Twitter in response to the fraud and tweeted:

"If anyone has a contact at Windows Game Store, please share. Somebody is scamming DD by selling it (illegally) on there."

- Red Hook Tyler (@tylersigman - Twitter)

As well as:

"On a related note, if you didn't buy Darkest Dungeon on Steam or Humble store right now, you got scammed."

- Red Hook Tyler (@tylersigman - Twitter)

It seems a resolution has been achieved as Tyler told Polygon:

"We have had several kind Microsoft employees from various departments reach out and offer to shepherd/escalate the issue to the store team. It's been really great of them to do so. The issue is not resolved yet, but we expect it will be soon."

- Tyler Sigman, Red Hook Studios

There is no confirmation that users who bought the game from the Windows Store will have their keys revoked for sure, but it will most likely happen.

Check the game out on Steam or the Humble Store and support the developers by buying through any of these two retailers. Darkest Dungeon used Kickstarter to fund development for their game. After just two days they had reached their goal of $75,000 and released the game on Feb 3rd, 2015. Graphically unique and appealing, I'd recommend checking this Aliens and Band of Brothers inspired game out.