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Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 09.04.2010

12,79€

Preis Update 22.08.24

Ein brandneues Dark Fall-Adventure! Willkommen in Dowerton, einem einst malerischen Dorf, verborgen in der englischen Landschaft. Wie so viele Dörfer wurde Dowerton durch Modernisierung und wirtschaftliche Fehlentscheidungen verschandelt, nun verstecken sich blasse Jugendliche in den Schatten, verlieren ihren Verstand an chemische Substanzen, während andere in den Wäldern verschwinden und nie wieder gesehen werden.

Fäulnis und Zerfall zerreißen den Ort in Stücke und lassen Ihnen wenig Zeit. Denn Sie werden das alte Dowerton-Hotel ein letztes Mal besuchen, um das Geheimnis des Dark Fall zu lüften. Überlegen Sie sich jeden Schritt und wenden Sie der Dunkelheit niemals Ihren Rücken zu ... denn etwas Böses, Unberechenbares und Hungriges wartet im Schatten dieser alten Gemäuer. Es will Ihre Seele, will sie verschlingen und foltern.

Features:

Die neue Spiele-Engine ermöglicht unendliche Bewegungsfreiheit und uneingeschränkte Erforschungsmöglichkeiten
Vollumfängliche Interaktionen innerhalb des furchteregenden Schauplatzes ermöglichen, die bedrückende Athmosphäre buchstäblich zu "spüren".
Benutze das Licht als deine Waffe und deinen Verbündeten gegen die Dunkelheit.
Benutzen Sie Licht als Waffe und Verbündeten, um die Dunkelheit zu besiegen.
Der gespenstisch düstere Soundtrack wird dich zum Erschaudern bringen.
Dringe in die "Albträume" der Verstorbenen vor und setze ihre düstersten Erinnerungen frei.
Erkenne die ganze Wahrheit von Dark Fall und entdecke die unglaubliche Macht, die es umgibt.

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CPU: Pentium IV (oder vergleichbar empfohlen)
GFX: 128 MB DirectX 9.0C kompatible 3D Grafikkarte
RAM: 512 MB RAM
Software: Windows XP(SP2/SP3) oder Vista
SFX: 16-bit DirectX 9.0C Sound Card
DX: DirectX 9.0C
MISC: Maus, Lautsprecher
LANG: Englisch

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Englisch (14)

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1652 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.12.20 20:51

Sehr spannendes Spiel...

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1041 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.08.14 07:54

Schönes Detektivspiel im Bild für Bild Modus (es gibt also keine freie Bewegung, sondern Standbilder).
Es wird eine gruselige Stimmung erzeugt und die Sounds sind auch ganz gut gemacht.
Das Spurensammeln macht Spass und um den Fall zu lösen, brauch man schon etwas Intelligenz und Einfallsreichtum sowie ein gutes Gedächtnis.
Nichts für Leute die Action brauchen damit ein Game gut ist, eher für Leute die gerne mal ihr Hirn nutzen.

Hab ich beim Sale gekauft und hat jeden Euro wieder eingespielt.

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184 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.02.22 17:30

All I could see after starting a new game was a black screen and the menu bar which lacks sound controls.

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58 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.08.21 23:44

Finicky controls. Many frustrations like many times you got to wiggle something back and forth to open it for no reason. Sometimes it takes lots of effort and if you go back latter you got to rewiggle it. You combine stuff blindly trying to guess what the game wants from you. Carefully moving the mouse around to find paths to new areas, not clear what is and isn't a path.

Story is nonsense. Seems to be all attempts at mood and no substance, lots of weird random stuff.

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395 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.06.21 07:35

I picked up this game because I was in the mood for a comfy casual horror adventure game with a bit of puzzles.
And it started rather nicely with a strong audio introduction.
Then after a blind sequence, I get to see the graphics which are really good in my opinion, really somptuous despite the age of the game and the fact that everything is a prerendered cubemap made with DAZ or sthg. I don't even know how they managed to do so good looking environments, but it looks great in game despite being rather generic.
The sound ambiance is very good even though the voice acting sucks. The protagonist in particular sounds ridiculous most of the time. But despite all these flaws and the fact that everything is cheap and stereotyped, this game manages to have a very cool ambiance.

But the gameplay sucks.
The puzzles are very cryptic and not logical at all. Well they aren't completely impossible and in theory you couild solve them if you brute forced the game by trying everything on everything. But this solution is rendered impossible because of the atrociously slow movements. Movements are extremely slow and everything is padded out by the fact you have several directions to examine in every spot, pixel hunting till the mouse cursor changes to interact, and also you have to look up and down in every direction because who knows, you might miss something.
Plus everything is clunky and there are a lot of broken mouse interactions that you have to perform on objects.
So you are left with the walkthrough method, but then it kills all the charm of the game, and even with the walkthrough it's tedious to play.

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630 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.04.21 19:40

I replayed Dark 1 & 2 before playing this, and I have to say that this is a poor follow up. I don't know if that's down to a different publisher, as I've enjoyed other offerings by this developer, and will certainly be giving the next game a chance.

I had to consult a walkthrough rather early on due to an un-intuitive puzzle, and found myself dipping into it more and more as the game went on. This was mainly due to the slow camera and movement animations discouraging me from revisiting previous locations for clues I might have missed. I didn't find the puzzles as satisfying to solve as in previous entries, many just felt like a chore.

Normally a strong story/intriguing mystery can downplay clunky mechanics, but I just wasn't as invested as in previous games - it felt more like an epilogue to the first game, with an unrelated story tacked on top. It was lacking the creepy atmosphere of previous entries, instead relying on jump scares and unnecessary gore.

The player character ruined any sense of immersion for me - in previous games the PC's personality was generally in the background acting more as a narrator rather than an active participant. I couldn't empathise or sympathise with the player character, so it was just distracting me from any elements I might enjoy. I think this also contributed to the lacking atmosphere, listening to a man panting into your headphones after a jump scare unnerves in an entirely different fashion.

I really wish I could recommend it, but at no point in the game did I feel like I was enjoying myself. If you're a fan of the series and want to play it for completionist's sake, wait for a sale. It was nice to see the original locations rendered in up to date graphics, but that's the most positive thing I can say about it. Your mileage may vary!

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Verfasst: 11.06.20 07:50

9/10

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Verfasst: 05.05.20 22:46

Couldn't get past the train station in the beginning because of a bug that wouldn't let met use the rotating handle and crank together.

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Verfasst: 25.01.20 13:49

Souls!

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Verfasst: 26.12.19 21:29

Very convoluted solutions for many of the problems and puzzles in the game, aside from the time wasted guessing answers you'll also have to find contend with the annoyingly slow camera movement.

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305 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.12.17 01:04

Like its predecessors, The Journal and Lights Out, it is well executed, and it was intriguing to revisit the same locale as the first game, the Dowerton Hotel and Station, and see how they tied the stories together. The game is well executed and has some parts that are quite challenging.

That said, I enjoy mystery and suspense, but not horror. So while I really enjoyed the first two games, this third game tipped too far over to the horror side for me, I was too freaked out to get all the way through.

I would recommend this game only for those who enjoy the horror genre.

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Verfasst: 08.02.17 16:03

3 attempts at game, 3 crashes within 5 mins of starting game :( gave up, was looking forward to game but looks like the game has other ideas.

Update:
Use Vista SP2 + Administraive compatibility settings, now past the crashes. Also created my own desktop shortcut as wil not open from within steam.

Still more crashes and sound loops :(

Now starting to get into the game, classic point and click old style game. Only let down once you are playing the game is there are no graphic/video settings so you have what you have.

If you like old style pojnt and click (easy) games then give this a try when on special price as long as you use compatibility settings for Windows 10.

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370 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.09.16 18:41

Coming from the first two Dark Fall games this one was a huge disappointment. I miss the ghost-hunting and the eerie historical Cornwall vibe I got from the previous games. Even though this takes place in the Station Hotel, it doesn't feel like the same setting as the first game.

Lost Souls relies way too heavily on boring, over-used tropes from the modern horror genre:

Creepy little girl? Check.
Scribbles on the walls? Check.
Old hospital paraphernalia? Check.
Scary dolls and mannequins? Check.
Random gore? Check.
Nonsensical jump scares? Check, check, check, and check.

Definitely play the first two Dark Fall games (and the Lost Crown games from the same dev), but I say pass on this one unless you get it at a huge discount.

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Verfasst: 04.04.16 01:34

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you fused Dark Fall and Silent Hill together? I'll tell you what happens: you get Lost Souls, the creepiest game by far in the Dark Fall series. What a game. What a finish.

Where do I even begin, since it's all great? I love the look of this game. You can tell Jonathan Boakes definitely had a bigger budget to play with since this game moves away from the Myst like feel, and more towards 360 degree surroundings, in which your character turns, sweeping the surroundings around him, instead of slide images. Time has not been kind to the Dowerton Station and Hotel. In Dark Fall 1, the train station is unsettling, but still just an empty, abandoned train station. In DF: LS, Dowerton has turned into a hell hole - a place where vandalism, illicit activity, and even satanic activity have become commonplace. The train station and hotel is beautifully rendered, yet is visually disturbing. This game does not bank on jump scares, though I was suprised a couple times. The scares come from knowing that you are exploring an evil place.

The story is fairly simple and very reminiscent of a Silent Hill kind of story. You are an Inspector who failed to apprehend the kidnapper/murderer of a young girl named Amy. She was last seen at the train station. Your guilt and shame lead you to return to the station and hopefully find her and bring about closure. As you explore, you meet other ghosts who for some reason or other are also trapped in the hotel. Because you are such a nice inspector, you help these lost souls find their way so they can move on. Each ghost you help gives you a key that will be useful. What I love about this section is that you are able to jump back in time to 1947, seeing the hotel at its peak. It makes returning to the present all the more horrifying as you see the decay of the place.

Just like the previous Dark Fall games, the use of sound is great. With visuals and sound creating an eerie, disturbing world, this is a game that would definitely be one to play in the dark with a good set of headphones.

So, good basic story, good visuals and sound, what about the puzzles? They are by far the easiest puzzles in the Dark Fall series. Yes, you will still read a lot and you will need to take notes, but I feel that the puzzles are a lot more intuitive than the previous games. There are three floors to the Hotel, and each one serves as a kind of level. The Train Station itself serves as a level. Within each level, there are puzzles that are meant for just that area. To me, that makes this game a lot easier, unlike Dark Fall: The Journal where you just jump in and have no idea what the first objective is.

Speaking of learning objectives, your character has a cell phone! Throughout the game, you will receive texts that will give hints to where you should go, and the next mission. It will also serve as filling in parts of the story.

This game was a fitting conclusion to the Dark Fall series. I enjoyed revisiting the Dowerton Station and Hotel. It has really made me curious and excited to look at other games made by Jonathan Boakes. If you like ghost stories, you owe it to yourself to try the Dark Fall series.

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895 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.08.14 15:22

6/10

A bit of a 'meh' game, really. If Steam had the option for a middle spot between recommend and don't recommend, I'd choose it. It had its moments, some of the puzzles were good and much of the story was okay as well, but nothing really shone. Some confusing UI. Some horrible voice acting (and some okay). Some cheesy horror aspects. No ability to skip repetitive dialog or animations. Quite linear, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there are some obtuse prerequisites to move the story along at times. For instance, you're in a room, do everything you can...and move on. Explore some other area, do all you can...then get stuck. Well if you then go back to the first area, something will have changed for some reason...triggered by something else you did but for no apparent reason.

But overall, it just didn't grip me enough to make me want to work through things...or I would just assume something illogical was going on even if in the end it just might have just taken a little more scrutiny...but time I didn't feel like spending on it.

In the end, it was good enough that I at least was willing to finish it. I got it on a 75% Steam sale, so I can't complain. If you like horror/spooky and maybe have an interest in the occult, it might grip you more than it did me and you can overlook some of its flaws.

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295 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.03.12 22:51

I took a risk on this since it looked interest, but unfortunately it did not live up to what i hoped for. It is basically a point and click adventure where you have to mostly guess the answers or items to use.

It was interesting, but I quit after I got tired of looking at Walkthroughs each time I got stuck. The answers and locations of items were not logical, so I moved onto another game after 4 hours of playing.

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