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The Dark Convergence

The Dark Convergence is a very rare horror adventure game from the early '90s. The plot is simple: one night the player and some friends have a car crash on a near-deserted road. The player is sent out to…

31 December 1993

The Dark Convergence is an adventure developed by J. Kintz, released 31 December 1993 on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Dark Convergence is

The Dark Convergence is an adventure game developed by J. Kintz and released in 1993. It is available on DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Dark Convergence is a very rare horror adventure game from the early '90s. The plot is simple: one night the player and some friends have a car crash on a near-deserted road. The player is sent out to search for some help and stumbles on an abandoned house. Inside it bloody bodies are found, and unknown menaces from other worlds and other dimensions try to kill the player. Will you survive the night and save the day? The game is programmed in QBasic (there is even the .bas file inside the game's folder) and the engine is similar to the one used in the Hugo's House of Horror series. The player controls the character with arrow keys and types the desired action using the parser. The game…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Dark Convergence launched on 31 December 1993, within three weeks of Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park and Windjammers.

Released around the same time: Doom, Mega Man X, Theme Park, Windjammers.

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When did The Dark Convergence come out?
The Dark Convergence was released on 31 December 1993 for DOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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