Michael Praise and Diana Eden investigate the paranormal in this return to classic survival horror. Explore the Crowley Manor and unravel the secrets of the Occult. Inspired by the Works of HP Lovecraft and a love letter to classic 90’s survival horror games.
Featuring an ancient evil and occult c...
64-bit Windows 10/11, Intel Core i5-7400/Ryzen 5 1600, 8GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1070, Not required, Versi...
介绍
Michael Praise and Diana Eden investigate the paranormal in this return to classic survival horror. Explore the Crowley Manor and unravel the secrets of the Occult. Inspired by the Works of HP Lovecraft and a love letter to classic 90’s survival horror games.
Featuring an ancient evil and occult conspiracy, Cthlulu and his macabre creatures have their grip on the estate in 1920’s Florida Wetlands. You go in freely, but will you leave the same way?
The mansion is entombed by the creature on the threshold. Only by defeating an old evil will it release it’s grasp and allow you to escape, but perhaps without your sanity intact…
Featuring two characters to choose from with an intricately written story, platform elements, puzzle solving and classic 90’s survival horror tropes, explore the mansion of the Crowley Family and find and defeat the underbelly of true evil.
The Story
Micheal Praise
I am a kept man, I’m also quite a superstitious man with an obsessive personality. My family doctor diagnosed me with a large case of obsessive compulsive disorder along with borderline schizophrenia, but I always shrugged these so called delusions off with the reality of experience. For the past ten years, my obsession with the paranormal had caused my freelance journalism career to change to full time ghost hunter. Upon finishing smoking my favourite brand of cigars, Sterling, of course, I dress in my smartest suit. I received a call this morning, a tip off it seems – A estate known as Crowley Manor had some ‘hauntings’ as of late, and it seems the owner vanished without a trace. I am to get a cab out to the manor this evening and investigate this for myself. Could I prove to everyone and myself that this is all not folly?
Diana Eden
I do despise these family involvements as of late. It seems that my stepfather has finally gone insane, talks of the occult, local gossip and to add insult to injury, the man has gone missing and they want me to find out what’s been going on. I do not believe this! I’ve arranged to visit the wonderful creaking Crowley Manor. I’ve always worked hard in my life, and it is not my intention to be an heiress to the man, although it does have me concerned. I do not really believe in the supernatural but I must admit, there was always something off with that house. When I was a child I always remember the secret drawer of the Piano, the window that was always blocked by the cabinet in the Loft, and the howls of a night. I suppose my imagination was greater then. Still…
This is going to be a short and unhelpful review I'm afraid, so I apologize, as I haven't had the opportunity to play this game.
The first thing that jumps to mind when I see the male protagonist is Alone in the Dark… I only have a small bit of experience with AitD, but it’s obvious something is amiss with this game. If you watch the whole trailer, you will see scenes unfold that are deliberately stolen from Alone in the Dark. A model-T car drives up; a frog is watching you; guy hops out of his car; he walks to house as a creature is watching him (though you can’t see that in this game because its way too dark), find a room with a rocking horse and a lantern. Literally the same gameplay footage from AitD! Haven’t played AitD? That’s okay, you can either play the GoG version or check out the screenshots on Mobygames, and you’ll see it’s scene stealing using crappy assets.
Final point I wanna make that caught my eye, that no one has mentioned so far, is that the two protagonist are very clearly Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence’s faces. This game is a complete knockoff and should have no place on GoG’s platform.
1. Why is GOG allowing asset flipping not even modded crapware based off a freeware game on this platform?
2. Why is GOG allowing "Me" a non customer for this product to make a heavily biased though ethical review.
I'd like to read GOG's view on this. Curious if this dev/pub did a bait and switch asset flip with GOG once store approved, and GOG simply hasn't noticed (yet)... or GOG isn't as ethical a store front as I'd thought.
A repeat of the link (Thanks Ragny) to Itch.io that clearly shows the illegalities and poor ethics behind this "paid" release. https://web.archive.org/web/20240814201031/https://teamtatou.itch.io/alone-in-the-dark-remastered
Other comments will explain the context behind this game far more than I do (originally a fan remake taken down, released now with a non existing copyright no., etc...).
However, what really troubled me is the fact than when contacting GOG about this and about the mounting amount of what could be called "shovelware" on this platform, I was ghosted,
I sent my first email on September 12th, never got anything other than the "we received your inquiry" email, and sent a second one on the 25th.
I have yet to receive any sign of life to this day, no ticket closure notification, no answer, nothing.
I feel like this game might be an example of where GOG is headed as a store. A platform without QA or vetting, and on the long term I fear we might get more and more "Hitman (2016)" releases which clash with the original spirit of the store.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Everyone should be mindful that this game is Alone in The Dark 1, the very first made years ago. I wouldn’t buy it again, as I already bought the original trilogy from here
