Alone in the Dark
Alone in the Dark is one of the first survival horror games and the first to utilize 3D models superimposed on pre-rendered backgrounds, which would become a key inspiration for upcoming horror games at the…
Alone in the Dark is an adventure developed by Infogrames, released 1 September 1992 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, DOS and FM Towns.
What Alone in the Dark is
Alone in the Dark is an adventure game developed by Infogrames and released in 1992. It was published by Arrow Micro-Techs Corp.. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Acorn Archimedes, DOS, FM Towns, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the 1920s Louisiana, the game follows the two playable protagonists for the player to choose, Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood, to uncover the mystery surrounding the suicide of Jeremy Hartwood in Derceto Manor, a mansion deep inside the swamps rumored to be haunted.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alone in the Dark series
Alone in the Dark is the first of 13 entries we hold in the Alone in the Dark series. The next entry was Alone in the Dark 2 in 1993. Its critic score of 60 is 6 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare at 80.
How it was received
Alone in the Dark holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1992 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average. Players rate it 66, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 3D Graphics card compatible with DirectX7. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alone in the Dark launched on 1 September 1992, within three weeks of Super Mario Kart and Axelay. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Kart, Axelay.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alone in the Dark yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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