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DOS
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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

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User Reviews

Nice idea, horrible execution DOS Sam Jeffreys Bronze Star Contributing Member (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 ?




This entry was contributed by POMAH (19497), Kitsune Sniper (10460), Kabushi (48039), j. jones (1641) and Tomer Gabel Bronze Star Contributing Member (4476)
 

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