Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness

First thing to do if you have any desire to play this game is to download the .exe file from the link below that fixes the missing cutsecene and the game breaking bug of not being able to access your inventory items. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=341051983 All set? Great, now we can talk about the game itself. William H. Stanton, aka you, find yourself face to face with an old childhood...

31 found this helpful, 2016-01-24

There's very few times in my life I actually feel the need to write a review, I generally let things speak for themselves. However, this game is the biggest brain suck I have ever come across and I felt the dying need to alert people to the waste of time and pennies they will experience if they buy this game. I could forgive the tired animations if it weren't for the dreadfully boring gameplay. As someone who is a...

35 found this helpful, 2014-07-17

This is a hard game to recommend to some people. I actually liked the animation, though it is admittedly clunky. I also enjoyed the music plus I am a huge fan of Lovecraft and anything (well almost anything) based on his writing. That said this game has some very cool 'Lovecraft" moments and is based upon the story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". The game play issues with the game are the problems towards the end...

19 found this helpful, 2015-07-12

A good old point-and-click adventure mystery type game with Lovecraftian themes. I don't know how long it is but it's been fun so far. The only problem I have is with the dialogue... there are no subtitles and because of the accents some of the people are seriously hard to understand if you're hard of hearing or bad at slurred American accents so it is advised that if you are about to talk to anybody SAVE your game....

27 found this helpful, 2014-07-12

PROS: + Based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft + Good atmosphere CONS: - Buggish - Not configurable at all - Bad interface - Bad graphics - Bad animations - Meaningless puzzles

54 found this helpful, 2014-11-06

What could have been a fun, notalgic release on steam is unfortunately hampered by some serious issues. This port is poorly done and sections of the story are missing. The best cutscene in the game is cut out and you are thrust ahead in the story with no idea what just happened. A game breaking bug makes the game impossible to complete a little later on when you can't access an important part of your inventory. ...

45 found this helpful, 2014-10-09

As much as I want to say nice things, being charitable to the game and the state it is in, is quite difficult. I do want to note that I used this fix from the forums to help with some of the most common glitches and add some of the missing content back. Without that, playing Necronomicon through its more frustrating sequences would have been even worse. I also freely admit I used a walkthrough on more than one...

9 found this helpful, 2023-03-28