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Venetica - Gold Edition

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3.9/5

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3.9

196 Reviews

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Venetica - Gold Edition
Description
Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order. Scarlett finds o...
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3.9/5

( 196 Reviews )

3.9

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Product details
2009, Deck13, ...
System requirements
Windows (7/8/10), Pentium 4 CPU 2.4 GhZ, 2 GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 7600 GT with 256 MB Ram, Version 9...
Time to beat
18.5 hMain
21 h Main + Sides
28.5 h Completionist
22 h All Styles
Description
Set in the fantastic world of long ago Venice, the young Scarlett falls victim to a terrible mystery, which begins with the murder of her companion by a secretive alliance of mighty necromancers. Thus fate takes its inevitable course and threatens to throw the world out of order.

Scarlett finds out that she is the daughter of death incarnate and is blessed with his ultimate powers. She is the only one who can stop the gruesome powers that threaten to destroy the entire living world.

Now it’s your chance to reverse fate! Get ready for a fast-paced adventure set in an epic world filled with dark dangers and merciless adversaries. Arm yourself with mighty weapons, rally together powerful allies and master the dark powers of death. Can you conquer the powers that threaten to inescapably destroy the world of the living? Follow your path down into the deepest abyss to death itself – and back again, if you are worthy!

Key Features:
  • Experience a visually stunning action RPG with a unique and captivating atmosphere
  • Follow the hero journey of Scarlett through a rich and original story
  • Conquer a host of merciless nightmarish creatures that pounce on the threatened world in a raged frenzy in action-packed battles and ultimately confront their masters
  • Explore palaces, villas and numerous dark alleyways in a living dynamic Venice filled with merchants, rogues, allies and traitors
  • Learn how to use the powers of the “Twilight World” and wander between the worlds of the living and the dead. Put the ultimate powers of death to your advantage in battle.
  • Use the advantages of the “Twilight World” and the ultimate powers of death
  • Experience an open game world with dynamic night and day cycles
  • Clear, easy to pick up rule system and intuitive game-play
  • Experience a dynamic and open game world in which you can freely develop your own character and decide on different game strategies yourself.

To become death in Venetica is a calling, fulfilled by a man of flesh and blood – equipped with special supernatural skills in order to be able to carry out the duties of the office. A new death is selected regularly by “Corpus”, a secret council. This time however Corpus really makes a wrong decision: The “new” death, Victor, turns out to be a crazed necromancer who manages to turn himself into an overpowering undead with seedy tricks and dark rituals and thus attains almost unlimited power in addition to immortality. As it is strictly forbidden for the chosen death to devote himself to necromancy, the committee revokes Victor’s nomination immediately and declares a new death in his stead without delay. 

The power-hungry Victor however does not want to relinquish his position again. He continues to practice the dark arts in order to gather numerous dark and dangerous creatures and tainted souls from the underworld around him. He thus succeeds in eliminating the newly designated death and takes over his power for his own purposes. The effects on the world’s balance are calamitous and – should Victor be able to keep himself in power – its dark consequences are irreversible. Only a person who has the same mighty powers as Victor can prevent his prevailing and vent him his deserved punishment. 

Scarlett, the daughter of the real death does not know anything about her ancestry and the hidden talents which slumber within her. She is immersed suddenly in this story due to the brutal attack on her home village and the tragic loss of Benedict, the love of her life. It is a story which she now begins to write herself, a story during the course of which she unleashes her capabilities, a story in which she tries to save Benedict from the world of the dead and a story in which she must protect the world of the living from the dark threat posed by Victor and his henchmen.
Goodies
Making of (ENG/GER) Venice Soundtrack (MP3) Manual (ENG) Artbook (GER)
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
18.5 hMain
21 h Main + Sides
28.5 h Completionist
22 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2009-09-04T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Size:
6.3 GB


Languages
English
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Deutsch
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español
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français
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italiano
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Posted on: July 22, 2025

patanad

Verified owner

Games: 15 Reviews: 2

Worth playing

The game inself has a lot of half baked mechanism, but the most important part is covered - I like the story, the world and the game is interesting enough for me to want to discover it.


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Posted on: July 31, 2025

CommanderLara

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Games: 675 Reviews: 54

Very entertaining - for a while

First things first: If you experience crashes or your PC freezes completely, you need a tiny, tiny patch which is called »4gb_patch« which will solve your problems. That aside, Venetica is a pretty looking game and very entertainig. Dialogues make sense, spells are really useful, there is much to explore, leveling up goes fast. Since I am a very slow player, I had fun for 40 hours, but then it lost me. There is nothing more to buy, nothing interesting to find, and the story isn’t that deep either, that you would eagerly anticipate the end. So I didn’t finish it, but it was really nice until I dropped it.


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Posted on: September 13, 2025

entropy3ko

Verified owner

Games: 48 Reviews: 4

Great Old Game!

Fun anction RPG game. It has some bugs here and there, but nothing gamebreaking. Overall a fun expericne! If you like a setting that is more original than your usually cookie-cutter medieval fantasy RPG and like some action, this game might be for you!


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Posted on: August 1, 2019

pegi989

Verified owner

Games: 81 Reviews: 7

supricingly fun with some anoying parts

All in all this is a good game , but and there is a but there are some issues with the game that i had that it would crash a few times but with the auto save it was never a issue or anoying , there is also a manual save and personally i made liberal use of it . Also don't alt-tab the game it really does not like that, you can get away with it sometimes but not all the time . To be clear none of the issue's stop you from finishing the game so no worry about that Also one of the villains is called the Doge and yes it's exactly said how you think it's being said . The places you will roam through all have their charm and are beautifull in their own right . The combat at face value is basic but it gets more "difficult" with the fact that you need to time the attacks to get the max out of your attacks . All in all it is absolutely worth a pick up if it is cheap .


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Posted on: August 13, 2019

bsapers

Verified owner

Games: 58 Reviews: 1

it works for me

Just finished this one. I am one who wants to get caught up in a story and characters, yet not one who has been satisfied with point and click: I need to swing a sword or blast with fire but am not all that interested (or perhaps am too lazy) in becoming expert at it. So I am not always against "story-only" options. As such a gamer, I liked this game. It will not make my list of "oh if only I could suffer global amnesia so I could play this game again, completely naive" games, not by a long shot, but it took a whole sunday from me, and when the sunday and the game were done, I had no regrets.


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