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Posted on: September 29, 2021

galdom

Games: 499 Reviews: 39

as deadly as beautiful

I played it on Amiga emulator a while ago. The game is really good. The castle is interesting to explore with a lot of secrets/puzzles. The gameplay is in between two genre: point and click/puzzle adventure and rpg/dungeon crawler. Combat is hard, don't hesitate to use CE to slow down the game if it's too fast for your liking. Enemy respawn can become tedious and beware because you only have a specific number of spells (you can't grind components, each is spell is cast one time only). So save often and on different files. Dark humour, numerous gory death and complex exploration with a mix of dark humour and a specific ambiance (calm and oppressive). (but beware, only tested on amiga).

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Posted on: December 26, 2021

seeabove

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Games: 221 Reviews: 6

sloppy controls

Great game and an all-time classic. However, combat encounters are nearly impossible to deal with using a mouse pad/touchpad due to the sloppy reaction time.

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Posted on: May 30, 2023

Mikethehunter16

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Games: 923 Reviews: 9

A MUST PLAY FOR NEWBIES AND PROS ALIKE.

to keep it short and straight to the point... ANECDOTAL: this is a step up for horror soft in one simple way. the game clock from personal nightmare is gone. PN was awesome, especially since it had the game clock that kind of provided a simulation of scheduled events and etc. aside from that, the game clock ultimately made the game waaay more frustrating than fun. actualy, PN was more intriguing than fun. not bad, just reaaaaly hard to get into because of said feature. NOW ON TO THIS GAME: without an in-game clock hampering the experience, this game capitalizes on the freedom to explore, as well as providing very fun and simple combat which is great for an old school classic such as this. more old school afficianodos know that most first person grid based exploration games tend to be pretty brutal, and because of that, hard to get into. this game is a very rare gem in that case being that its notnecisserily brutal. as well, the environments are absolutly beautiful. the gameplay(player actions) or straightforward which is all very much a positive. gathering objects/plants or etc is simple... just drag from the environment and into your inventory space for the wonderful elvira's spell crafting/cooking :3 controls are all(gui based) mouse accessible which is always great. CONCLUSION: to sum it all up. This is a rare case where an old school dos game is highly accessible and fun. light on punishment, and deep with environment detail and characters. total recommend for newbies and old school pros alike. A MUST PLAY.

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Posted on: June 24, 2025

incorp

Games: 211 Reviews: 3

A Classic!

The Mistress of the Dark was a fun game back in the days and it still ist. Not too complex a nice mix of rpg and adventure, it still boasts some great graphics and is worth a play-session. Well, the 50/50-fighting-system was never very good, but one can manage. I still like this gem!

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Posted on: March 26, 2026

selfevolved

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Games: 25 Reviews: 1

It's a favorite classic

I've played this game over and over. I love the horror vibes (gardener in the shed for example), and I like all the different environments/dungeons. They squeezed so much into a relatively short game. It is one of those old games from the map-making days, so if you don't wanna draw your own, definitely look them up online. I even like the combat although I can see how some people wouldn't. Blocking especially is just random guessing after the first couple low level enemies, since their attacks speed up too fast to react to. But there's ways around that, and you have offensive spells, healing spells, crossbow to hit from range. Again, they squeeze so much into this little game. It's probably my favorite classic DOS horror game.

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