Tonight at a glance
- Platforms
- Acorn Archimedes · PC-9800 Series · PC · 3DO · Mac · DOS +1
- Mode
- Single player
- Age rating
- ESRB T
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
Alone in the Dark is one of the first survival horror games and the first to utilize 3D models superimposed on pre-rendered backgrounds, which would become a key inspiration for upcoming horror games at the time, like the Resident Evil franchise. The player can use various weapons, such as pistol, rifle, swords and knives, though it is possible to kill most enemies with melee attacks. Some opponents can be beaten by solving a particular puzzle, while a significant number of opponents cannot be killed at all or only with certain weapons.
- Action
- Fantasy
- Horror
- Survival
- Historical
- ghosts
- death
- frog
- female protagonist
- action-adventure
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
Production
- Players
- 72 / 100 · 83 players
- Critics
- 60 / 100 · 1 critic
- Developer
- Infogrames
- Publisher
- Imotion, THQ Nordic, Infogrames, MacPlay, Arrow Micro-Techs Corp.
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
