The Dark Mod, a Thief-style thief game for Ubuntu

about game the dark mod

In the next article we are going to take a look at The Dark Mod (TDM). In the cases in which we speak of Open Source games, It is usually common to find games that have somewhat deficient environments and graphics for current times, although they can be just as entertaining as current games.

By chance I came across this Open Source game, even though it is already a few years old, which has nothing to envy to commercial games, regarding the playability, the setting and the quality. The Dark Mod is a game that has been inspired by the Thief series which was originally released as a Mod for Doom 3 in 2009. With version 2.0 that came out in October 2013, Dark Mod managed to become a standalone video game from Doom 3.

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What we are going to find is a first person game, something we are used to seeing in FPS or first person shooter games. The game offers users basic infrastructure and tools such as the engine, textures, models and an editor. The missions and campaigns were carried out by the User community. The project is led by volunteers from all over the world and is freely accessible.

the dark mod menu

The world of Dark Mod is dark, it has medieval elements as well as elements of the Victorian era. Although Dark Mod was inspired by the series Thief from Looking Glass Studios, has neither materials nor names of it because of Copyright.

When the game starts, the user will become a thief who has to go pulling in a hostile and sinister world. That is why he will have to rob people or climb the houses of the rich at night. Blackmail and murder will also be an option to move forward.

Lacking fighting skills, the player must avoid his enemies, hiding in the shadows and avoiding making noise. To achieve his goal, the player can use special equipment such as lock picks, various types of arrows, explosive potions and other things that will have to be discovered during the game. During the game we will have to fulfill certain missions, apart from naturally handling everything that is not screwed on or shiny, and evidently without being discovered.

mission start in the dark mod

But other than this, not only is it a game of pure stealth, includes many elements from practically all genres of games, FPS, ROL, Strategy, Puzzle, Mystery to the purest Survival Horror. It must be said that some missions can be quite complicated and take us several hours to finish them. There are YouTube videos of all of them, for those who get stuck in any of them.

Download and play The Dark Mod for free

The game The Dark Mod can be download completely free from its official page (Windows, Mac and Gnu / Linux) It weighs about 2 Gb when we download it.

Once we download the game we will see that initially comes with 2 missions, one of them is training. The other missions, currently almost 100, can be downloaded and added from the same game menu. The Dark Mod is completely free to download and play.

To get this game on our Ubuntu system, we just have to follow the following steps:

  • To start we will create a folder called TDM in our folder home to download the game there.
  • We downloading the 32-bit version for Linux and we are going to extract it into the TDM folder that we just created. Is also 64-bit version available for Linux.
  • Once the file that corresponds to the architecture of our operating system has been downloaded, we will have to make it executable by typing the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T):
chmod + x tdm_update.*
  • The next step will be to download the game using the file that we just downloaded. To do so we will have to pass the option –Noselfupdate when we execute the corresponding file to the architecture of our team. We will do this in the following way:

start the dark mod installer

./tdm_update.linux64 --noselfupdate

Run TDM

The above command may take a while, depending on your internet speed since it will connect to the servers and the necessary packages will be downloaded to run the game.

launchers available thedarkmod

After downloading the game, we can start The Dark Mod using the thedarkmod.x86 or thedarkmod.x64 binary that we are going to find inside the TDM folder that we created before.

the dark mod playing

Users can get more information about this game in the Wiki created for the project.


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  1.   Spanish said

    Interesting, but the most important thing and that you never comment, is it in Spanish? Thanks. Greetings.

    1.    Damien Amoedo said

      I have tried it in English. The truth is that I have not checked if it can be used in Spanish.