Dark Messiah's new edition adds co-op, cut content and console-exclusive maps to the 20-year-old orc-kicking extravaganza, and it's coming to Steam this year

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition must be what modders dream about—a big, impactful, community-driven project that enhances a beloved game, with full support from its publisher. It's effectively an official upgrade for the orc-kicking immersive sim, released for free. And it's heading to Steam.

The list of improvements is impressive, and includes:

Adventure mode, with bonus levels and challenges

New spells, weapons and abilities like sliding

WiltOS Technologies ported Dark Messiah over to the latest Source engine and worked with the community and other modders to integrate existing mods and fan requests, culminating in this new version. And publisher Ubisoft has apparently been a great help.

"Ubisoft is actually supporting this project directly," the developer noted on the Steam forum. "This would not be possible without them." Indeed, Ubisoft invited them to visit Ubisoft Montreal, where they were able to get the console-exclusive features working on the PC version.

The new edition was announced back in March, …