Darkest Dungeon on Windows 8 Store is a scam, warns developer

Someone is scamming users on the Windows App Store by uploading a file and claiming it to be the game Darkest Dungeon.

Darkest Dungeon is not officially available on the Windows 8 Store. Instead, someone is listing it on there for $3.99 as a 2MB download.

This, of course, is a scam, as noted by Red Hook Studios co-president Tyler Sigman on Twitter earlier.

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Sigman went on to add that if users got the game from anywhere other than Steam or Humble Store, it's most likely a scam.

Thankfully, someone at Microsoft is on the case following the reports.

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Darkest Dungeon is not the first game to fall victim of this trend. According to PCGamer plenty of scam apps take the name of a popular game and charge money for essentially nothing, without even attempting to clone the game itself like on the iOS App Store.