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Dark

Other (objects, etc.) theme

The environs are unusually dark, either because it's a perpetual night, you're stuck in a structure with limited light sources or anything else, forcing you to use any light source(s) you can find or cope with what little you can find in the env

423
games
62
platforms

Alternate name: Perpetual night

LIMBO (PlayStation 3)
LIMBO
PS3 2011-07-19
Dark Souls II (Windows)
Dark Souls II
WIN 2014-04-24
Metro: Last Light (Windows)
Metro: Last Light
WIN 2013-05-17
Alien Trilogy (PlayStation)
Alien Trilogy
PS1 1996-01-01
Escape from Bug Island (Wii)
Escape from Bug Island
WII 2006-12-02
Shadowgrounds (Windows)
Shadowgrounds
WIN 2005-11-11
Lost Labyrinth (Windows)
Lost Labyrinth
WIN 2004? *
Singularity (Windows)
Singularity
WIN 2010-06-29
Atari Vault (Linux)
Atari Vault
LIN 2016
Dungeon Siege III (Windows)
Dungeon Siege III
WIN 2011-05-27
Dead Space (Windows)
Dead Space
WIN 2008-10-20
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360)
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
X360 2009-04-07
Related:
* Light
* Lamp
These are usually the games with carryable light-sources which deplete some resource to stay on, are insufficient to provide proper lighting or have a tendency to fail.

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Parent groups

Horror elements, Visibility, Visuals

Child group

Limited darkness

Related group

Other
Blinding

Games by year

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The first Dark video game was released on November 1973.

2K Games, Sega and Electronic Arts published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 131
Linux 83
Mac OS X 32
X360 23
PS3 21
Apple II E 11
PS2 9
MS-DOS 7
Xbox 7
PS4 6
TRS-80 5
BSD 5
BeOS 5
Wii 4
C64 4
Android 4
Unix 4
Mac OS Classic 3
Internet Only 3
Tandy Coco 3
Xbox One 3
Amiga 2
Ohio Scientific 2
Commodore PET 2
Atari 2600 2
Flash 2
Pandora 2
ColecoVision 2
Sol-20 2
PS 2

Most common companies

2K Games11
Sega11
Electronic Arts11
Activision10
Cardboard Computer9
Deep Silver9
Atari9
Klei Entertainment8
Konami8
Playdead8
Creative Computing7
Tripwire Interactive7
Frictional Games6
Eidos6
Wolfire Games6