Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
Stormling Studios · 2014 · Adventure, Horror, Lovecraftian, Point & Click, Indie
PC
Mostly Positive74% · 552
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About Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder
✦ AI summary
Investigate a wealthy occultist's murder as detective Howard E. Loreid while your grip on reality fractures under supernatural torment and nightmarish visions in this Lovecraft-inspired point-and-click adventure. Solve intricate puzzles by deciphering dreams and uncovering clues across a surreal psychological landscape where the line between madness and truth becomes terrifyingly unclear.
Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style.
As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult. Your number one suspect is Loath Nolder; a highly respected private investigator. After mysteriously abandoning his last case and abruptly resurfacing five years later, one wonders how venerated P.I. Loath Nolder has turned fugitive murder suspect. Your seemingly routine investigation takes a dramatic twist as terrifying happenings begin to plague your psyche. Horrifying dreams and paranormal experiences torment your very being and the line between sanity and insanity becomes frighteningly blurred. Face dire truths hidden deep within the recesses of your mind, as you embark on a surreal adventure.
As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult. Your number one suspect is Loath Nolder; a highly respected private investigator. After mysteriously abandoning his last case and abruptly resurfacing five years later, one wonders how venerated P.I. Loath Nolder has turned fugitive murder suspect. Your seemingly routine investigation takes a dramatic twist as terrifying happenings begin to plague your psyche. Horrifying dreams and paranormal experiences torment your very being and the line between sanity and insanity becomes frighteningly blurred. Face dire truths hidden deep within the recesses of your mind, as you embark on a surreal adventure.
Key features:
- A chilling point and click Puzzle Horror Adventure inspired by the Works of H.P. Lovecraft, now brought to Steam for the first time as a slightly enhanced edition with Chromatic Aberration and cinematic effects applied to the game's graphics !
- Built-in Hint System with 3 Difficulty Levels – Players can choose to play in Standard, Detective, or Senior Detective modes.
- Unique Inventory System – Utilizing the ‘thinking screen’ allows players to collect and examine items, and thoughts. Clues can also be researched, combined or used.
- Dynamic Puzzles and Features – Traditional adventure game puzzles are complimented by deciphering dreams and underlining excerpts in documents to garner critical clues.
- Enhanced Gameplay Experience – The proprietary game engine enables compelling special effects and stunning visuals in a panoramic first person game environment.
- Eerie Gameplay Atmosphere – An immersive experience is created by a fascinating story, chilling real-time cut scenes, and haunting music.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
one gorgeous old school 360 pointclick quest. pretty creepy most of the time
This is a pretty old point and click. Nostalgic, but the controls are dated.
It's old and dated but it's cool. I would suggest using a guide as a lot of the hints that you're supposed to find don't really work correctly and like half the stuff that I saw and thought "that seems pretty important" the game outright tells me it's not when I try to underline it. Also the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The ending really explains basically nothing about what's going on, and you can piece it together yourself mostly from the stuff you find through the game but there's no actual conclusion to what you found. Game is also only $8 though so I'd still say worth the money. 7/10
After some really horrible point & click horror games, this was a breath of fresh air, so that is likely tainting my review. While there were some clues that didn't make sense, in general, figuring out what was needed from the documents and environment was not overly difficult. The backtracking to get new clues was a bit tedious, but if you're good at remembering what you've picked up in a previous visit to a location, tagging new clues isn't an issue. The story itself is typical Lovecraft, along with nonsensical imagery and situations that make no sense without the context of Lovecraftian lore. I definitely got a "In the Mouth of Madness" vibe (a bit closer to the movie). In general, a must if you enjoy Lovecraft; if you want something that makes complete sense in a logical, sane world, this definitely will leave you unfulfilled.
Obtuse af. Very boring. Terrible UI.
Good game but after save an than load allways says INVALID SAVE GAME and I cant do anything to back into the game Quit works perfect 👎
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