"Most of what you will see on the internet is not accurate," Graysun wrote Dark And Darker Gold. "There will be no delay in development, and there is nothing to worry about."

Ironmace shared the same message to a wider audience via Twitter:

Dark and Darker, "an unforgiving hardcore fantasy FPS dungeon PvPvE adventure," made a big splash during the Steam Next Fest that ran in February, becoming one of the top ten most-played games on Steam. The studio recently announced that it has decided to do one more round of playtesting before a planned launch into early access: The fifth and presumably final test session will run April 14-19 on Steam.

I've reached out to Ironmace for more information on the Dark and Darker search and seizure, and will update if I receive a reply.

Dark and Darker promises 'absolutely no pay to win,' but admits it can't survive on sales alone

Dark and Darker's demo version briefly became one of the biggest things on Steam during last month's Next Fest event, but the devs at Ironmace still have a lot of things to figure out. Chief among them? How the hell they're gonna make money off their very popular game.

In a recent Discord QA with a developer called SDF, we learned that Ironmace won't be able to keep Dark and Darker online with game sales alone, that its run out of space in its office buy Dark And Darker Gold Coins, and that—despite all that—the studio doesn't really know how it's going to monetise the game when it finally releases.