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Nocturne

Nocturne is a survival horror adventure video game set in the late 1920s and early 1930s – the Prohibition and Great Depression era. The player takes the part of The Stranger an operative of a fictional…

90 28 October 1999

Nocturne is an adventure developed by Terminal Reality, released 28 October 1999 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nocturne is

Nocturne is an adventure game developed by Terminal Reality and released in 1999. It was published by Gathering. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Nocturne Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Stranger returns from his unknown previous mission. His superior assigned him a new mission, along with a dhampir named Svetlana. The mission is to infiltrate a small village in Germany, to recover a relic that can grant every vampire who possess it immunity to their vampiric weakness. In the village, the mayor tells them that a vampire Count has the relic in a castle outside the village. During their journey to the castle, they witness strange occurrences, such as vampires attacking and killing each other rather than working together. After arriving, Svetlana suddenly becomes hostile and attacks The Stranger, before escaping inside the castle. After the count's servant tips off The…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Nocturne holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Nocturne launched on 28 October 1999, within three weeks of Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Grand Theft Auto 2, Thief Gold and Half-Life: Opposing Force. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Rayman 2: The Great Escape, Grand Theft Auto 2, Thief Gold, Half-Life: Opposing Force.

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When did Nocturne come out?
Nocturne was released on 28 October 1999 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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