If you're curious to see the inspiration behind the original Resident Evil and Silent Hill games, then look no further. Everyone else is advised to stay away. Everything this game has to offer is done better in more recent games such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Eternal Darkness. The story goes nowhere and the game is not scary; only frustrating. There is not enough meaningful feedback or context to indicate whether you are doing something right or wrong or are even doing anything at all. In other adventure games, you'll encounter a secret passageway and receive a description like "there is a star-shaped depression in the wall here." In Alone in the Dark, you get the same message in every location: "There is a mechanism which can be triggered here". That's it. Enjoy trying every item in your inventory at every location, and then back-tracking to try the items you've left behind because of limited inventory space. Controls are clunky even by survival horror standards. You double-tap the forward key to run, but this doesn't work consistently. Your actions (fight, search/open, throw, push, close, drop) must be pre-selected from within the inventory menu, and then performed by holding down spacebar. You'll need to fight off or evade monsters while searching cupboards, chests, etc; which means you're opening the inventory screen constantly to switch actions. Not worth my time.
Mac version is buggy and doesn't work. Starts up fine but gets progressively slower and slower until it's beyond slideshow levels of poor framerate. Doesn't matter what you do with graphic settings, etc. Since you can't save your game mid-level there is no way to get through a single stage because the game starts to crash before you can get to the end of a level. Developers are not supporting this game anymore and are taking no efforts to improve compatibility. Original Shadowgrounds works fine, play that instead.
