Penumbra:Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore. Played from a first person perspective and powered by a 3D engine utilising cutting edge technology, Penumbra is a substantial advancement of the genre. Set in the year 2001, Penumbra: Overture follows the story of Philip, a thirty-year-old physicist whose mother has recently died. After receiving a mysterious letter from his supposedly dead father, Philip follows a series of clues that lead him to a mysterious location in uninhabited northern Greenland.
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Earnest, grave, plot-driven and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
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About the game
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Frictional Games
- Publisher
- Paradox Interactive
- Released
- March 30, 2007
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- HPL
- Time to beat
- 3 h rushed · 11 h main story
IGDB rating 7.5/10 from 98 ratings.
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