GAMbIT Magazine Issue #26 April 2017 | Page 22

REVIEW GAMBIT

2DARK Genre : Adventure , Indie Developer : Gloomywood Publisher : BigBen Release Date : March 10 , 2017

has his two kids kidnapped after his wife is brutally murdered on a camping trip . He spends years looking for them without any clues in the very Silent Hill-like town of Gloomywood . Again , the story is anything but subtle and it helps to constantly pull the player out of the experience . And who in their right mind would live in a town named Gloomywood . It ’ s like if you lived in Killsville and complain about all the killing . The whole thing is very 90s in concept and story , and while this is a fun throwback at times , we ’ ve moved pretty far since those days in terms of storytelling .

" 2Dark as a title doesn ' t push any boundaries , but the game builds a really fantastic world to play in ."

All that said though , the gameplay in 2Dark is where the game finds its footing . The game uses very basic
2Dark comes from the mind of the creator of the original Alone in the Dark series . This should give you some idea of what players have in store for themselves , but much like that classic series , 2Dark isn ’ t all that scary , regardless of the fact that other outlets are “ fake ” freaking out about it being so .
This isn ’ t to say that 2Dark isn ’ t creepy because it is , but this is a game that pushes the over the top nature of the story to such an extent that it almost becomes a parody of itself . The story , much like the original Alone in the Dark , simply tries too hard and is something so exaggerated and far from reality that becomes silly . But this isn ’ t to say the game is bad , because it ’ s far from it .
You play as a former detective who