- Adventure, Indie, Action, Horror
From Frédérick Raynal, the creator of Alone in the Dark and pioneer of survival-horror, 2Dark is a grim journey of stealth and courage into the heart of corruption. Plagued by a string of child abductions, darkness hangs over the once-picturesque city of Gloomywood like a curse.
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Grave, bleak, unpretentious and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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DVS GamingMar 20179/10It's cheap, it's great and worth hours of enjoyment (as well as few jump scares to boot). The few issues in 2Dark are a testament to how good this game plays and feels. It's very important that this actually feels like a creepy game as well, otherwise the storyline wouldn't fit in well with the scenery. Overall, this is a great indie title to check out.
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Cubed3Albert LichiMar 20178/102Dark is mostly a triumph for Gloomywood. It is impressive and refreshing that a skilled user could play a survival horror stealth game that can be completed without killing anyone. Sure, sometimes accidents happen and a kid dies a horrible bloody death, which can lead to both horrific shock and bemused laughter... at the same time no less, but that is the weird and wonderful tone of 2Dark. Inane inventory system and difficulty spike aside, this is a very interesting and free-form survival horror that dares to be a little different. A humble little game that really tries its best to get people to invest in saving children and be heroic with no shred of irony.
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COGconnectedThi ChaoMar 201772/1002Dark that creeps on a subject that not many dare to venture in; the kidnapping, torture, and murder of children.
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TheSixthAxisJim HargreavesMar 20173/10Visually and thematically, 2Dark succeeds in paying homage to its forebears. Everything else, however, is desperately lacking. Alone in the Dark had twenty years in which to rise and fall but Raynal’s latest stab at survival horror barely gets twenty minutes.
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Push SquareKell AndersenMar 20173/102Dark tries to do too many things at once. Its stealth mechanics, while occasionally satisfying, are frustrating and pedestrian. Similarly, its attempts at horror, while presented well, are undermined by bad writing and repetitive gameplay. A lack of clear signposting and a terrible UI do nothing to help this maddening experience.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One
- Developer
- Gloomywood
- Publisher
- Bigben Interactive
- Released
- March 10, 2017
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating 5.0/10 from 14 ratings.
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