Lust for Darkness

 PC
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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 56
  3. Negative: 19 out of 56

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  1. rogerroger
    Jun 24, 2018
    1
    I don't know if this game had low budget or just wrong idea what to do.
    You CAN:
    - open every drawer - walk - pick up relevant objects - admire stiff, modeled boobs by young male modeler with great personality. You CAN'T: - play a game - hide and seek with monsters (like amnesia) - play with the lightning - solve side quests . . . This isn't even a true game, more like idea    I don't know if this game had low budget or just wrong idea what to do.
    You CAN:
    - open every drawer
    - walk
    - pick up relevant objects
    - admire stiff, modeled boobs by young male modeler with great personality.
    You CAN'T:
    - play a game
    - hide and seek with monsters (like amnesia)
    - play with the lightning
    - solve side quests
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    This isn't even a true game, more like idea to make money on telling people it's some kind of eyes wide shut related game. It's cheap and cheesy. I feel bad for playing this crap. I needed a shower after 2h of this game. Yes, 2h because you will finish it after 2h. It's bad, really. Watch on yt but don't buy!
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    MUST NOT BUY!    … Expand
  2. nahuelst
    Nov 3, 2018
    0
    Mal juego, malos gráficos, especialmente en los humanos, argumento estúpido, aburrido, les recomiendo Amnesia, un juego más viejo, pero que es mil veces superior a este engendro.
  3. huskobon
    Jan 20, 2019
    2
    It's a dry mess. The ideas are good, but the execution is awful. By the time I finished the game, I wasn't asking any questions, just relieved it was just over. This game sucks. The voice acting isn't that good, or inspired, and the gameplay is barebones to the core.
  4. LT_Gruber
    Dec 28, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Blend and lifeless game.

    Lust for Darkness had a lot of potential to become something unique but failed miserably. It is lifeless husk of a game that has nothing to offer.

    When the game first came out, I got excited. It was supposed to be a psychological survival horror game with some erotic twist. Because I am a simple man, this sounded great. But when I played it, it disappointed immediately.

    The story was an interesting concept. You receive a letter from your wife, who had gone missing a year ago. You are told that you can find her in some mansion that belongs to the Yelverton family. On your journey you discover that this mansion is home to some cult that worships some lust God and that there is apparently a place called “Lusst’ghaa”, some alternative reality. On your exploration you discover all kinds of messed up stuff, you are being chased and your sanity drops fast. Meanwhile, you still search for your wife, which left more clues in the mansion.

    Eventually, you enter the strange world of Lusst’ghaa, where more mindf*cks and weird stuff is happening. And although some events and chase sequences were sort of fun, the rest felt like a weird safari tour.
    Like I said, this concept could be interesting but the rest of the game in terms of mechanics, graphics, animation, length, and progressions is so bad, that it did not interest me anymore after an hour. And speaking of an hour, this game is criminally short. I finished it within three hours, and that is while I explored everything I could find.

    The graphics are not great but acceptable. What kills it, is the awful and stiff animations of enemies and the environment. It looks so incredibly stiff and lifeless, I had the feeling I walked through some sort of museum, watching animatronics. Everything is scripted or “just happening” and there is almost no interaction of any kind between you and the events and environment around you. Its really bad.

    In the sound department, the ambient tracks are all right, but the sound design is just as blend and lifeless as the rest of the game.

    Of course, one of the reasons I played Lust for Darkness, was to see some booty and find out what this “erotic theme” was all about. Apart from some statues and people without clothes, it really disappointed. But then there was a specific room/scene of the game with a lot of people, that did, how should I put this, “things” to each other. When I entered however, I just saw twenty animatronics repeating the same movement over and over again. No different animations, no interaction with you, nothing. At this moment, I knew that all hope for this game was lost.

    Besides from this, the game play itself is boring and blend. You can sneak by enemies in perfect scripted scenes, in which sneaking is the only way to progress, you collect stuff like notes and items that all feel pointless, and the progression and exploration is non existing.

    The game has not much to offer and the way it is made and plays, it just feels that it does not have any reason to exist, except for some sort of tour experience trough a small and strange world. Some sort of demo that is showed off.

    In the end, Lust for Darkness is a very, very short, and failed game that I definitely would not recommend for any price.    … Expand

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50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 9
  3. Negative: 6 out of 9
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Oct 31, 2018
    40
    Although it delivers an abundance of horrifying imagery, the indiscriminately gratuitous Lust for Darkness falls short of delivering a truly engaging Lovecraft-meets-sex-cult experience throughout its brief three-hour play time.
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  2. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    75
    Despite tricky subject and intention to shock this rather simple adventure game (with some stealth touches) managed to escape unintended comicality by delivering a solid, mature tale set in a twisted and internally consistent (therefore believable) world. [08/2018, p.80]
  3. GameGrin
    Aug 14, 2018
    40
    Beneath Lust For Darkness' great atmosphere and creative imagery lies a very average game.
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