Dark Seed

Description

Dark Seed is an adventure game which capitalizes on the drawings of famous horror designer H. R. Giger as a source of background artwork and inspiration.

You play Mike Dawson, an ad company manager who, in pursuit of his goal in life to become a writer, purchases a solitary mansion in a small town called Woodland Hills. Although the low cost and hush-hush transactions when purchasing the house do raise your suspicion, the solitary environment and sheer beauty of the house crush common sense and you decide to buy the house. That's when trouble begin. Upon reaching the house, you suddenly feel tired. You find a bed and fall asleep...

... and wake up from a terrible dream, only to find out that your life has just become a worse nightmare: an unknown source has implanted a seed of darkness in your mind, and you only have three days to find a way to stop it.

Alternate Titles

• "黑暗之蠱" -- Chinese title (traditional)
• "זרע האופל (Seed of Darkness)" -- Israeli title
• "Dark Seed 1" -- Common title
• "Darkseed" -- Alternate spelling

Part of the Following Group

• Dark Seed series

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User Reviews

Nice idea, horrible execution	DOS	Sam Jeffreys (3316)
Good concept and graphics for its time....Although there are programming glitches!	DOS	bill bradskey (2)
Gorgeous, but not exactly playable	DOS	weregamer (157)
One of greatest and memorable game in the world	DOS	MDawson (9)

The Press Says

Amiga Computing	Amiga	Mar, 1993	95 out of 100	95
Amiga User International	Amiga CD32	Jan, 1995	82 out of 100	82
The One	Amiga CD32	Sep, 1994	79 out of 100	79
Amiga Computing	Amiga CD32	Jan, 1995	70 out of 100	70
Amiga Games	Amiga	Mar, 1993	68 out of 100	68
Power Play	DOS	Jun, 1992	66 out of 100	66
Amiga Power	Amiga CD32	Sep, 1994	63 out of 100	63
Adventure Classic Gaming	DOS	Oct 28, 1997	3 out of 5	60
PC Review UK	DOS	Jun, 1994	6 out of 10	60
Defunct Games	SEGA Saturn	Sep 22, 2007	58 out of 100	58

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Trivia

There was this strange advice in the manual (translated from the German version): "Think logically. We tried to give all puzzles in the game a logic meaning. Only sometimes the logic may seem hard to comprehend. If you are stuck anywhere, try to use everything that you already carry. That may be successful." That doesn't sound too confident in the own game design, doesn't it ?