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Hi!

I always thought it was, but I can’t find it here in the database.

Has anyone played it? Is it good?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-earth

walas74 - 02 April 2022 09:16 AM

Hi!

I always thought it was, but I can’t find it here in the database.

Has anyone played it? Is it good?

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-earth

I have it. It’s pretty good. It’s not an adventure game, there is significant amounts of combat in the game.

I remember reading a review in the 1990s where it was desribed as an adventure game with fighting elements or something. There were quite a number of those action-adventure experiments back then without clear genre borders, like Outcast, Redguard or Omikron - David Cage’s first game which is defenetely an adventure in my book, especially compared to his later Fahrenheit, and yet they are also not in the database. The Little Big Adventure series, on the other hand, are universally considered to belong to the adventure genre for some reason. Go figure

off-topic. Someone broke the April Fool’s thread. off-topic

Doom - 02 April 2022 11:32 AM

I remember reading a review in the 1990s where it was desribed as an adventure game with fighting elements or something. There were quite a number of those action-adventure experiments back then without clear genre borders, like Outcast, Redguard or Omikron - David Cage’s first game which is defenetely an adventure in my book, especially compared to his later Fahrenheit, and yet they are also not in the database. The Little Big Adventure series, on the other hand, are universally considered to belong to the adventure genre for some reason. Go figure

off-topic. Someone broke the April Fool’s thread. off-topic

It’s a good game, I liked it when I played it. Could be fun even today, just be prepared to do some combat that’s all.

Thanks for your answers. I will play it some day…