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Games Like Dark Fall: The Journal
Jun 19, 2002·78% positive·Rising·
This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!
Best games like Dark Fall: The Journal
The best games like Dark Fall: The Journal are Dark Fall: Lost Souls, Scratches - Director's Cut, An English Haunting, The Lost Crown, and Dream Cage. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 78% positive across 237 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Adventure, platform support for Windows, and $4.99 pricing signal.
- Dark Fall: Lost Souls - Dark Fall: Lost Souls is strongly similar to Dark Fall: The Journal because both games are made by Darkling Room, and both are Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Point & Click, Horror, Puzzle.
- Scratches - Director's Cut - Scratches - Director's Cut is closely similar to Dark Fall: The Journal because both are Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Point & Click, Horror, Mystery, Atmospheric.
- An English Haunting - An English Haunting is closely similar to Dark Fall: The Journal because both are Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Point & Click, Horror, Mystery, Atmospheric.
- The Lost Crown - The Lost Crown is closely similar to Dark Fall: The Journal because both games are made by Darkling Room, and both are Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Point & Click, Horror, Mystery.
- Dream Cage - Dream Cage is closely similar to Dark Fall: The Journal because both are Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Horror, Mystery, Atmospheric, Puzzle, First-Person.
1+ languagesDarkling Room/THQ Nordic
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This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember! Do not let it to find you! Do not let it to find you... Do not.. Let... find... The game is best played in a dark room with your speakers turned up. Unless you're scared, of course.
The Story - many decades ago
The old, abandoned train station at Dowerton hides a history of disappearances, mystery and hauntings. The nearby Station Hotel was once a busy, bustling place for weary travellers to rest and relax...but something went wrong...on the night of April 29th, 1947, the guests and staff vanished without trace, never to be seen again.
The Story - present
You come back from work hoping to get a good night's sleep but then you notice light blinking on your answering machine. It was your brother – an architect redeveloping an old train station and hotel. He called to ask for your help. Alarmed by his frightened voice, cryptic information about some disappearance and strange whispers in the background you board a train without hesitation. From now on your adventure has just begun and soon you will realize that although no one is there, you are not alone...
Key Features
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Explore the haunted hotel and train station, alone at night.
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Use Ghost-Hunting Gadgets to ‘see’ into the past, and hear the dead.
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An eerie, World War 2 setting is fully realised in 3D graphics.
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Use detective skills to uncover secret places and learn long lost secrets.
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Challenge the mind by solving many devious puzzles and enigmas.
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Communicate with ghosts via a Ouijaboard.
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Decypher an ancient, long forgotten, language.
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A non-linear story by Jonathan Boakes, author of The Lost Crown.
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Full cast of actors & sound to bring the haunted location to spooky life!
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Utilise high-tech surveillance equipment, to watch supernatural activity.
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