The Darkness
2 recomps
The Darkness (portingpete)
portingpete/The-Darkness-Recomp
Native Windows x64 port: the Xbox 360 executable is translated to C++ ahead of time and built into DarkRecomp.exe, with its own D3D11 renderer and no emulation at run time. Playable today from start to finish, with mouse look, controller support, video settings (resolution, FOV, gamma, bloom, frame cap, and VSync), XMA audio, and saves.
You needYour own The Darkness dump (Xbox 360): the original default.xex plus the Content and System folders. The repository ships no game code, assets, or binaries.
The Darkness (Estacado)
invinceble55-wq/Estacado-The-Darkness-Recomp
Estacado: an unofficial Windows port of the Xbox 360 version, by static recompilation. XenonRecomp translates the game’s PowerPC code to C++, and the Direct3D 12 system and graphics layer builds on the ReXGlue SDK. Its author says the whole campaign is playable from start to finish, though it’s still a pre-release tested on a single Windows 11 PC with an NVIDIA RTX card; a player has it working on the Steam Deck under Proton. It offers 30 fps up to your monitor’s refresh rate or uncapped with game timing kept intact, the scene at 1x, 2x, or 3x the console’s 720p, SMAA or FXAA, FSR 1 or CAS, experimental widescreen for 21:9, 32:9, and 16:10, keyboard and mouse with direct mouse look and rebindable keys, an adjustable field of view, achievements with an on-screen notification, and player-made HD texture packs (none included). Settings live in a launcher with presets and in an in-game menu (F1), in English or Russian. Multiplayer doesn’t work: its modes stay on the menu. Version 0.9.8 (October 12) added temporal upscaling with DLSS, FSR 3.1, or XeSS, plus two of the developers’ cheats, god mode and give all. 11 of its 18 commits list Claude as a co-author.
You needYour own copy of The Darkness for Xbox 360, the USA/Europe disc (En, Fr, De, Es, It; Title ID 545407EE), as an ISO image or extracted. The launcher checks that your default.xex carries the same code; other releases with the same code work too, but one with a title update doesn’t yet. Plus 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, a CPU with AVX2, a Direct3D 12 graphics card, the Visual C++ 2015–2022 Redistributable (x64), and about 8 GB of free space if you use a disc image.
Installs with
Quiver Launcher · Ports Launcher
Questions
Can you play The Darkness natively on PC?
Yes. The catalog has 2 recomps, and one of them is fully playable.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of The Darkness (Xbox 360). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
The Darkness (portingpete), with 360 stars on GitHub.