When the Darkness comes is an adventure developed by Sirhaian, released 12 January 2019 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What When the Darkness comes is
When the Darkness comes is an adventure game developed by Sirhaian and released in 2019. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity3D.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Taking around an hour on the first play-through, "When The Darkness Comes" feels like you’re wandering around a glitchy hard drive full of abstract dreams and beautiful nightmares. The narrator initially makes it feel like a comedic game, but it soon starts to take a darker tone as you travel down the bizarre broken rabbit hole that explores the darkest themes of the human mind. From a Factory to underwater, from a crystal forest to an Angel sanctuary, or from a dark metro to a white desert, When the Darkness comes offers a multitude of digital landscapes that will activate your senses and imagination.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, horror, mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
When the Darkness comes 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 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 21 points above the year average.
What it launched against
When the Darkness comes launched on 12 January 2019, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Slay the Spire, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for When the Darkness comes yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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