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 spelling (traditional)
- "זרע האופל " -- Hebrew title
- "Dark Seed 1" -- Common title
- "Darkseed" -- Alternate spelling
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User Reviews
The Press Says
| PC Zone |
DOS |
Jun, 1994 |
90 out of 100 |
90 |
| Amiga User International |
Amiga CD32 |
Jan, 1995 |
82 out of 100 |
82 |
| Amiga Format |
Amiga CD32 |
Nov, 1994 |
73 out of 100 |
73 |
| Amiga Power |
Amiga CD32 |
Sep, 1994 |
63 out of 100 |
63 |
| Abandonia |
DOS |
Jul 02, 2005 |
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 |
| Adventure Gamers |
DOS |
Nov 28, 2009 |
   |
50 |
| The Video Game Critic |
SEGA Saturn |
Oct 22, 2008 |
C- |
42 |
| Aventura y Cía |
DOS |
Aug 14, 2001 |
|
20 |
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Trivia
The german version of Darkseed suffered from a terrible translation.
There were lots of spelling and grammatical mistakes (the first one on the very first screen of the intro, written in big letters), the rendering from English into German was clumsy and inapt, and sometimes english idioms, which are unknown in their respective form in German, were translated literally, which made them sound unintentional ludicrous or rather stupid.
And there were points in the game, when several of these things came together, where it was hard or even impossible to comprehend the meaning of some sentences at all.
