Dark Fall: The Journal

While dated and sometimes irritating with its pixel hunting and placements of some items, it is an interesting, quite demanding, but ultimately satisfying point-and-click horror game. Has a decent story, gloomy mood, interesting lore, and some fun mechanics. The puzzles are sometimes quite difficult and require paying attention to what we read in the game world (and we read a LOT), but I felt that once I solved everything (OK, I did check WT once or twice...) I've reached a rather rewarding conclusion to my short adventure.

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Yes.

Thought I would try this after completing Barrow Hill as it looked similar but no, this is a really different beast. If you liked Barrow Hill's vibe and aesthetic and don't mind something a little more spooky with a LOT more note taking and literally zero hand-holding (the latter two points there a la Myst) then give this a shot. While Barrow Hill does have some more cryptic stuff near the end you might have to think on, it at least rewards you for just trying ♥♥♥♥ and banging things together too - this game absolutely does not. Smaller brains like mine who don't have that much fun stopping the game for an hour to do cryptography or reading and rereading pages and pages of text or whatever won't get on with this. Still gets a recommend though cause it's obviously great and well-made for fans of that kind of game, Respect. I'll stick with my creepy simpler horror point and clicks instead.

Cool and eerie old school adventure game.

not bad at all. A very spooky atmosphere. The puzzles are very hard - I think without a walkthrough it might be a bit difficult.

fun! when i wasnt wishing i was dead with the ghosts