Based on Stephen King's popular horror novel, The Dark Half attempts to retell the story of Thad Beaumont's mysterious world of crime via an adventure system reminiscent of Lucasarts' SCUMM interface.

In-game, you play Thad Beaumont, a sucessful horror-novelist whose evil twin besets the world with horrific crimes. The game offers a multitude of clues, quests and puzzles. The overall objective seems to be to prove Thad's innocence to the police, however Thad soon learns that his twin has other ideas, and has to run for his life.

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Alternate Titles

"La Mitad Oscura" -- Spanish Title

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Abandonia	Aug 11, 2005	3 out of 5	60
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Is this game any good?	3	Sam Jeffreys (3021) Sep 16, 2007

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Trivia

Based on the novel by the same name by Stephen King, which also spawned a movie of the same name. Additionally, some editions of the game came with a paperback copy of the novel.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by ArtfulGamer (13) on Mar 26, 2002.