Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

From the moment Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac set foot on Shadow Island, they are confronted by mysterious, evil creatures intent on thwarting their progress to recover 3 ancient tablets believed to hold the secret key to some incredible menacing phenomena. Danger threatens from every corner.

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is a adventure, horror and action game developed by Darkworks and Spiral House and published by THQ Nordic.
Released on October 29th 2013 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 592 reviews of which 417 were positive and 175 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 1.74€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare into these genres:

Adventure Horror Action Survival Horror Classic Puzzle Female Protagonist Lovecraftian

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows® 98 SE/Me/2000 Pro/XP
Processor: Intel Pentium® II 300 MHz
Memory: 64 MB RAM
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 400 MB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

The original game is a classic, although the PC version is definitely rough. Setting up the controller is a huge pain, there isn't a proper borderless fullscreen setting, just a handful of other little annoyances like that. CRUCIALLY: you must, and I mean must , go into your NVIDIA settings (or equivalent for your system) and limit this game's framerate to ~58 (anything close to but less than 60). This is an old game, and absolutely no safeguards have been set in place for higher framerates on newer hardware. I, like an idiot, played through this entire game at around 120fps without having any idea, and it was a nightmare . My playthrough was plagued by bugs, softlocks, crashes after every pre-rendered cutscene, weird input drops, borked menus, and huge problems interacting with doors, ladders, and pick-ups. It's a shame, because it really colored my time with the game. I went back and limited the FPS to 58, tested it for an hour, and all those issues just...completely disappeared. So with that in mind, with the caveat that you must limit your FPS to sub-60 , I heartily recommend this game to fans of quirky, campy old-school survival horror games. It's got all the campy dialogue with fun-bad delivery, tank-controls, frustrating combat, circuitous puzzle logic, and fixed camera angles that you're looking for.

Sept. 2024

i remeber playing this game back in 2001 on a Pentium .Ws 18 or 19 at the time .After playing the 2024 remake of the original 1992 Alone in the Dark .I recalled playing this game more then 20 years ago .And it had an interesting Lovercraftian premise .Which i didnt know about at the time .This brought back alot of memories about playing this game . Wanted to try playing this game again after 24 years . I have to say this game deserves a remake .

Sept. 2024

Even though I absolutely love survival horrors, I’ve never played any of the Alone in the Dark games, so it was about time I familiarized myself with this franchise. First, I wanted to try the brand new remake, but I got discouraged by all the negative reviews, so instead I turned my attention to this more classic installment. The New Nightmare is one of those oldschool action-adventures, like the original Resident Evil trilogy, where your worst enemies are not the monsters or the puzzles, but the terrible tank controls and fixed camera angles. Shooting at a creature which can’t be seen in the screen your character is in, or trying to escape from a horde of beasts just to run into a wall after the next turn can be extremely frustrating. Finding the right spot where you can pick up or use an item is also a “fun” challenge, so good luck with that. With that said, once you manage to get used to the controls, you get a true, classic survival horror experience. You get to choose between two characters, both with different routes, so if you want to see everything, you’ll need at least two playthroughs. You need to carefully conserve ammo and first-aid kits, and you can only save your game if you have so called Charms of Saving available, so you better plan every step you take. These gameplay features constantly keep you on edge, and then there are also the monsters (they’re not that crazy scary, but most of them can turn invisible), the infrequent music, the creepy environmental sounds and the surprisingly hard puzzles. Just try not to focus on the terrible voice acting… All in all, I can recommend this to fans of this genre (but keep your expectations lower than for classic Resident Evil ).

Sept. 2024

This game has soft-locks, it is hard as nails and doesn't have any respect for you as a player... and I love it. One of the best Survival horrors, with some incredible ambiance (Shadow Island, man...), amazing music and some good scares. This is for me one of the tops, even with the mentioned flaws. PD: you will have to install some mods to make it run property, though.

June 2024

This game works pretty well, as intended, on the Steam Deck , Ubuntu 24.04 and any other Linux Distribution, however, it doesn't run well out of the box, but there's an easy fix that doesn't require to download anything else. The following guide will give you an easy fix for this game on Ubuntu 24.04 , the Steam Deck or any other Linux distribution. https://steamcommunity.com/app/259190/discussions/0/4345491945909032164/ Enjoy!!!

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-75% 6.99€ 1.74€

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Developer

Darkworks, Spiral House

Publisher

THQ Nordic

Release 29 Oct 2013

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