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Alone in the Dark (floppy version)

Jeremy Hartwood has committed suicide in his Louisiana mansion, Derceto. You take the role of either Edward Carnby, a private investigator, or Emily Hartwood, Jeremy's niece, and investigate the suspicious death. The three-floor mansion is reputed to be haunted by its eccentric past owner. Very quickly, you realise that it is. Warped rats, zombies and giant worms are among the foes who are after you, and you must somehow escape.

Alone in the Dark is an action-adventure survival horror game. The action is displayed from a number of fixed viewpoints. The backgrounds are 2D painted images, while the player character, all items and monsters are rendered as 3D models.

To escape the mansion, you'll have to solve a number of puzzles. They usually involve finding an item and using it in a proper place. Apart from items necessary for the puzzles, you can also find books and documents that can be read, healing items which can be consumed to restore hit points, and weapons.

Weapons come in handy, since Derceto is full of various monsters. Some monsters can be killed with weapons, but others are either impossible to kill or require a bit of thinking to take down. Note also that you have limited amounts of ammunition, so you have to use firearms carefully. MobyGames

The difference between this and the CD-ROM version is that it lacks voiceovers when reading things like notes, parches and books, and the font used to display text in those documents is bigger and more spaced. Everything else is exactly the same.

See also Alone in the Dark (CD version), Alone in the Dark 2 and Alone in the Dark 3. This game is also available for DOS.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k PPC

Minimum Requirements:
68040
4 MB RAM
8-bit Color
System 6.0.7

* The "stair bug" only occurs on systems 8.6 and 9.x (G3Throttle, which solves the "stair bug," is included for convenience).

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