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The Dark Stares Back

The Dark Stares Back is an Indie horror strategy game where you must carefully plan your movement in a house with no power or escape against multiple home invaders with no purpose but to hunt you. Each of them…

24 January 2020

The Dark Stares Back is an indie, released 24 January 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-8800 Series.

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What The Dark Stares Back is

The Dark Stares Back was released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-8800 Series.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Dark Stares Back pins you against multiple invaders with no purpose but to hunt you. Each of them behaves in their own unique way and you must learn from your experience to evade them long enough to win. You can run into the vents, hide in cabinets, duck behind furniture and more to survive.
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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.

What it launched against

The Dark Stares Back launched on 24 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot and Journey to the Savage Planet.

Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dreams, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet.

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When did The Dark Stares Back come out?
The Dark Stares Back was released on 24 January 2020 for PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-8800 Series.

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