Dark Fall (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dark Fall

This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere…

62 19 June 2002

What Dark Fall is

Dark Fall is an adventure game developed by Darkling Room and released in 2002. It was published by Nordic Games Publishing. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Story - many decades ago: The old, abandoned train station at Dowerton hides a history of disappearances, mystery and hauntings. The nearby Station Hotel was once a busy, bustling place for weary travellers to rest and relax...but something went wrong...on the night of April 29th, 1947, the guests and staff vanished without trace, never to be seen again. The Story - present: You come back from work hoping to get a good night's sleep but then you notice light blinking on your answering machine. It was your brother – an architect redeveloping an old train station and hotel. He called to ask for your help. Alarmed by his frightened voice, cryptic information about some disappearance and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Dark Fall holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz Processor, 256 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Dark Fall launched on 19 June 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, SoulCalibur II and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, SoulCalibur II, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

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