Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3

This is truly one of the most stunning game series ever. I remember owning 1 + 2 on floppy discs back in the day. One of the, if not the first game to incorporate polygons within a 3D environment. The game's atmosphere, unique view angles and horror movie style presentation, together with the musical background (there used to be a CD version of AITD 1 with not-so-midi-style music) make this an awesome feast for the senses. If you enjoy macabre, intense horror atmosphere, then do get these. The insane price for three games is all the more reason.

I bought those games when they went out. They were outstanding. A lot of those reviews are silly and non sense. People here do not take in account how old are those games and how advanced they were back in the days. It was the 386 period. Architectures that had no GPU and CPU between 12Mhz and 40... they were basically overpriced calculators. So all the comments... it hasn't aged well... controls are awkward... it could have been better... 33 years had been passed and you weren't even here at the time. Better rinse your mouth before mentioning those masterpieces...

(bonus if you get the title reference without googling.) AiD is a hard game to review. It created the survival horror genre, and deserves mad props for that. However, the primitive control scheme is epic, unreservedly, bad, and 20 hours practice will still leave you flailing. The graphics are mind-numbing ugly...except they kinda work for the game. Not at all perfect, honor it for swinging for the fences, and having a wonderful Lovecraft inspired story. Also a seminal PC game (yes I mean seminal in the original sense)

Despite this is the first 3D survival-horror game ever developed, it's not about being the first but also doing it in an excellent way. The voices, music, textures, story, make this game a must have for everyone who is serious about this genre. Please note this version is working perfect in both Windows 8 and 10. This is the original trilogy, not to be compared with the rest of the games with the same game that were developed after. Note that you get all the goodies, and GOG made a beautiful work there. I totally recommend buying these 3 games for the price of almost nothing. I want to say there was a cropped newspaper for the Alone in the Dark 2. I sent an email to GOG and they re-scanned it in a couple hours: Amazing support!

First played this in the nineties. To be honest: controls and playability were low-class even then. Graphics were ok (backdrops) or not so (polygons). So why five stars? This is one of the very few, if not the only title that I have played, where ONE enemy, and a slowly moving one, can and will cause true horror and panic. The atmosphere is incredible. You will be afraid. You will panic. You will be afraid of dying again. Lovecraftian references are there and fit the story. Music is complementing the scenes and action very nicely. Long story short: if you can endure the controls, and prefer atmosphere over graphics, get this jewel, you won’t regret it.