Done
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High confidence
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Evaluation
Dark Years launched on October 16, 2015 as a self-contained action-adventure game set in 1953 Tehran. The store description presents it as a complete narrative experience with defined features — over 8 hours of gameplay, 25+ characters, and a story based on real historical events. One patch was released on October 24, 2015, addressing a range of bugs and polish items shortly after launch. There have been no developer communications of any kind since that patch, no DLC has been listed, and no future content has been announced. The game shipped as a finished product and has received no post-launch content updates in over a decade.
Evidence
Update #1 released eight days after launch, fixing crashes, AI issues, animation bugs, and polish items. This is the only developer communication on record — there have been no posts since October 24, 2015.
Store description presents Dark Years as a complete, self-contained narrative game with defined features and a fixed scope: 8+ hours of gameplay, 25+ characters, and a story grounded in a specific historical event.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
KPL
Achievements
2
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Inspired by true events, Dark Years is set in 1953 Tehran, Iran.
Tehran is in the grip of fear following a series of grisly murders. Major Afshar has been tasked with finding those responsible. Meanwhile, some 3,300 miles away in London, an Iranian journalist is handed documents that uncover a conspiracy of seismic proportions. As both the Major and the journalist delve deeper, their paths will cross, plans for a coup will be uncovered and Western government involvement will be exposed.
Dark Years is an action-adventure game based on the real events surrounding ‘Operation Ajax ‘. In an attempt to secure the rights to Iran’s oil, the British and American governments secretly backed a coup that over-threw the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. The result was a period of great instability and violence.
Tehran is in the grip of fear following a series of grisly murders. Major Afshar has been tasked with finding those responsible. Meanwhile, some 3,300 miles away in London, an Iranian journalist is handed documents that uncover a conspiracy of seismic proportions. As both the Major and the journalist delve deeper, their paths will cross, plans for a coup will be uncovered and Western government involvement will be exposed.
Dark Years is an action-adventure game based on the real events surrounding ‘Operation Ajax ‘. In an attempt to secure the rights to Iran’s oil, the British and American governments secretly backed a coup that over-threw the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. The result was a period of great instability and violence.
Key Game Features
- Open-world gameplay
- shooting and driving
- Over 25 characters with nearly 3000 lines of dialogue
- Compelling narrative
- Over 8 hours of gameplay
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