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.

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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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Part of the Following Group

Dark Seed series

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Dark Seed: Based Upon the Futuristic Artwork of H.R. Giger	DOS	$3.22
	Dark Seed
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User Reviews

Nice idea, horrible execution	Sam Jeffreys (3561)
Good concept and graphics for its time....Although there are programming glitches!	bill bradskey (2)
Gorgeous, but not exactly playable	weregamer (157)
One of greatest and memorable game in the world	MDawson (9)

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The Press Says

Zero	Jun, 1992	91 out of 100	91
PC Zone	Jun, 1994	90 out of 100	90
Power Play	Jun, 1992	66 out of 100	66
PC Review UK	Jun, 1994	6 out of 10	60
Adventure Classic Gaming	Oct 28, 1997	3 out of 5	60
Abandonia	Jul 02, 2005	3 out of 5	60
Adventure Gamers	Nov 28, 2009		50
Aventura y Cía	Aug 14, 2001		20

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Trivia

Not only the name of the main character, Mike Dawson, refers to (a member of) Cyberdreams:

Mike Dawson lives, according to the manual, in an old Victorian house on Ventura Drive, Woodland Hills. The first office of Cyberdreams was located at 21243 Ventura Boulevard, Woodland Hills. Moreover, that’s the same address as printed on Delbert’s business card, Mike’s neighbor in the game.

The store in the game is called "Klug’s Food Market". Rolf Klug was the owner of Cyberdreams (so he provided “the food”).

The clue on the microfiche card that you examine in the library on day 3 is signed by Ryan Ketchum. Pat(rick) Ketchum was the President of Cyberdreams.

However, Pat gets his own signature. The cracked mirror note in the DOS version is signed by Timothy, but in the Amiga CD-32 version it is signed by Pat.

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This entry was contributed by POMAH (20225), Foxhack (11188), Kabushi (52023), j. jones (1641) and Tomer Gabel

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