By anonymous independent project, the platform horror DARQ is transforming into a small media event for the great welcome riservatagli from the printing industry and by fans of the genre. Its author, Wlad Marhulets, claims to have rejected the proposal to launch the title exclusively on the Epic Games Store.

In answer to the numerous questions been put to him by his fans on the pages of Reddit, the composer of belarus, with the passion for video games has revealed an interesting background on the development of DARQ explaining that “Epic contacted me immediately after I posted the trailer announcing the release date on Steam, but DARQ was among the first 50 games you want on Steam, and I believed that if I had signed an exclusivity agreement with them, it would prove that my word means nothing, since I promised that the game would be launched on Steam. In addition, the page of DARQ was on Steam since November and many people have held patiently in their wish list, I decided it was best not to disappoint all those people and to avoid to prove to the world that my ads don’t mean anything”.

As for the relationship with Epic Games and their attempt of persuasion to induce Marhulets to launch DARQ exclusively on Epic Store, the composer and the neo-developer of the city of Minsk specified that “representatives of Epic have contacted me explaining that they wanted to tighten an exclusive agreement: I kindly rejected before we had the chance to get into the details of the agreement (money offered, etc, etc…). I asked them if they would be willing to sell DARQ in a not exclusive way, but explained that at the moment is not something that can be done. It was an exchange polite and professional, I don’t have anything negative to say”.

The thorny issue of the aggressive strategy used by Epic to tighten the exclusive agreements, and rip the titles to the competition of the Steam continues to keep the tour on the main sites gaming, as evidenced by the reaction been from the community to the words spoken in this regard by the boss of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney.