The game uses tank controls to control the character, which I personally don’t like and although they’re somewhat responsive, the animation is too slow. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.” I recommend acting fast when you start the game because if you take too long, 2 monsters will enter the loft to confront you and although they’re easy to defeat, it’s best to block their way in. The intro shows either character arriving at Derceto and heading to the loft, where then the game properly starts. You can choose between 2 characters: Emily Hartwood, Jeremy’s niece, who doesn’t believe her uncle committed suicide but believes he left a note for her in his old piano or Edward Carnby, a down-on-his-luck private detective who was hired by an antique dealer to find the aforementioned piano. The police consider the cause of death to be suicide and of course, we all know there’s more than meets the eye, right? It’s less colourful and detailed than the previous one, but it’s still quite eerie.īut time has come, children of the night, to boot this horror into our systems:īut before playing the game, I recommend reading the newspaper that comes with it in which not only presents you the background story but also helps you immerse in the 1920s atmosphere, although the text presented in the character selection might be enough.īasically, the backstory is that Jeremy Hartwood, an artist living in Louisiana, was found hanged in the loft of his mansion Derceto. This an alternate cover, released only in Europe. This is the most well-known cover of the game and I have to confess, it’s quite good, giving a proper eerie atmosphere. The team also decided to use the haunted mansion trope as their horror setting since it’s a well established classic horror trope but combined with Lovecraftian elements.īut before we continue with the game itself, let’s look at these horrible visages, shall we? Unfortunately, animating an entire mansion in 3D wasn’t possible, so the designers decided to just animate the characters and the objects in a pre-rendered 2D background, which forced the use of fixed camera positions.
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And in 2014 it was released for iOS.Īlone in the Dark came to life when Infogrames decided to do a horror-themed game using the new 3D graphics and animation of the time. It was also ported in 1994 to Macintosh and 3DO and the following year to the Acorn 32-bit computer. It was re-released the following year in CD-ROM format and ported to the FM Towns and PC-98 computers. And today, we’re going to take a look at one of the games that built the foundations of the survival horror genre: Alone in the Dark.Īlone in the Dark is an action-adventure game made by French developer Infogrames and originally released in 1992 for DOS. Welcome ghouls, ghosts and other things that go bump in the night, to our Halloween special review.