Lust for Darkness

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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 56 Ratings

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  1. GReviews
    Jun 25, 2018
    6
    50 Shades of Disturbing. Lust for Darkness is a unique experience, filled with vanilla sex, BDSM, and straight up Necrophilia. With decent visuals, brilliant level design and sound, this is worth checking out if you're a horror genre or you're just a bit kinky.
  2. TheProGamer-
    Jun 29, 2018
    5
    Very poorly executed story. Stories, where you're the partner on the rescue for your other half, have been used many of times in stories good and bad. Take Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The same premise pulls it off perfectly. This, on the other hand, does not work well. You have point A and point B. It missed a lot of opportunities in gameplay. There is some premise of gameplay where youVery poorly executed story. Stories, where you're the partner on the rescue for your other half, have been used many of times in stories good and bad. Take Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. The same premise pulls it off perfectly. This, on the other hand, does not work well. You have point A and point B. It missed a lot of opportunities in gameplay. There is some premise of gameplay where you sneak around and not get caught so you don't die. Only happens 3 times. That is it. Very short as well. While the graphics are superb and there are some puzzles it just didn't execute very well. Plenty of missed opportunities guys!… Expand
  3. rezuron
    Jun 13, 2018
    6
    You could expected more based on kickstarter and cinematics. You should watch first 30 minutes on yt before buying.
  4. MarkBenson12764
    Nov 1, 2018
    7
    It's better than 5/10, but definitely has some not so great moments. I had a fun time, I'm going to rate it 7/10. You could spend some money on this gem, but don't get me wrong, wait for a sale or something.
  5. hawek
    Jun 13, 2018
    5
    Great visuals (except for the human models) and quite captivating gameplay, but lack of immersive storyline. Absolutely cliche ending and whole gameplay for around 2-3 hours (I'm not counting collectibles). It's not so scary for a horror game. But as a first game of that studio - it's a good start, I'm waiting for more.
  6. PublicNuisance
    May 2, 2020
    6
    Lust for Darkness has a great atmosphere and some great lore but it doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. It created this wonderful backstory with an interesting alternate universe and a cult trying to access it but it fails to explore either in much detail. You don’t get to figure out what the origins of the cult are; why they want to find Lusst’ghaa; or just what the beings on theLust for Darkness has a great atmosphere and some great lore but it doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. It created this wonderful backstory with an interesting alternate universe and a cult trying to access it but it fails to explore either in much detail. You don’t get to figure out what the origins of the cult are; why they want to find Lusst’ghaa; or just what the beings on the other side are or their motivations. Maybe I’m trying to dig too deep into this but I feel there was a lot of uncovered potential. What I was left with was a game about a man whose wife went missing; no idea the circumstances of that; and he is just blindly trying to get his wife back without asking any questions. The puzzles in the game are not overly difficult but border on annoying at times. They also feel a bit out of place and kind of just there to add some actual gameplay to an otherwise story driven game. There is a stealth section that was a tad annoying as I hate stealth. There was also enemies that you have to run from that can one hit kill you and you can’t fight back against which is another pet peeve of mine. The opening of doors was also annoying as you have to pull or push with the mouse kind of like in the Amnesia games. I didn’t like it then any more than I do now. The graphics were above average for the most part. The world detail such as shelves; doors; furniture; buildings; objects; etc were great. The detail on bodies was also great. Faces and clothing were a little sub par. The voice acting was pretty weak. The main character almost seemed like he was going for a Bruce Campbell vibe except he isn’t Bruce Campbell and this isn’t Evil Dead. His wife was a little better but still wasn’t anything more than decent. There wasn’t much music in the game but the end credits music was a good choice.

    I played Lust for Darkness on Linux using Proton. It never crashed on me and I didn’t notice any bugs. The game auto saves at various points and has only the one save slot. Alt-Tab works. There is 1 AA setting; 1 AF setting; 3 SSAO settings; and 3 other graphic options. The game generally ran from 74-144 FPS but could dip down to 29-56 FPS at times almost randomly. It isn’t a fast paced game so the lag wasn’t very noticeable when it did.

    Disk Space Used: 14.62 GB
    VRAM Used: 3512-5577 MB
    CPU Usage: 40-65 %
    RAM Usage: 3.7-4.4 GB
    Frame Rate: 29-144 FPS

    It may seem like I really didn’t enjoy Lust for darkness but I just feel like it had more to give than it did. If you enjoy HP Lovecraft media; movies like Event Horizon or Hellraiser than you may like this game. If they expanded the lore more I would have loved it. I finished the game in 2 hours and 48 minutes. It feels a bit short given how many questions I had unanswered and it even ended on a bit of a cliffhanger leaving one more before it was all over. There are worse games than Lust for Darkness but there are better as well. Conarium is what this game could have been in my eyes. Hopefully the sequel addresses my issues. I paid $6.79 CAD for the game and it isn’t bad value for the content or length. The full price, which is $16.99 CAD right now, is a bit steep.

    My Score: 6/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 5700 XT 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 20.0.5 | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500GB | Manjaro 19.0.2 | Mate 1.24 | Kernel 5.6.7-1-MANJARO | Proton 5.0-7    … Expand
  7. xcava86x
    Jan 12, 2021
    7
    Graphically pleasing, it's clear that a great care was put into the body modelling and body animations, also all the otherworldy models look beautiful with their lightning and colour.
    The gameplay is a little rough around the edges, especially the interaction with the various objects.
    Also the story isn't very long and doesn't offer replayability, unless you want to collect every single    Graphically pleasing, it's clear that a great care was put into the body modelling and body animations, also all the otherworldy models look beautiful with their lightning and colour.
    The gameplay is a little rough around the edges, especially the interaction with the various objects.
    Also the story isn't very long and doesn't offer replayability, unless you want to collect every single secret page. 2-3 hours long    … Expand
  8. LoletinAlexis
    Sep 25, 2020
    5
    Lust for Darkness is an interesting title, but one that is guilty of wanting to cover up a production that needs more work with the potential sales of eroticism.

    *STORY: The adventure takes the player to explore a Victorian mansion and even travel to a perverse and profane dimension. The opening plot seems interesting, but it gets lost in its own nature of a Walking Simulator    Lust for Darkness is an interesting title, but one that is guilty of wanting to cover up a production that needs more work with the potential sales of eroticism.

    *STORY: The adventure takes the player to explore a Victorian mansion and even travel to a perverse and profane dimension.

    The opening plot seems interesting, but it gets lost in its own nature of a Walking Simulator videogame (which does it no favors in this case), creating finally a very heavy and boring narrative .

    **2/5 stars**

    *GAMEPLAY*: Walking Simulator where you opens drawers, another one.

    *GRAPHICS*: Very simplistic and not very imaginative, with a supernatural section not very showy and a reality very seen, but very cared.

    *SOUND*: Very fair and not at all remarkable.

    *INNOVATION*: Lust for Darkness dares to use eroticism with a merely interesting plot, unimaginative mechanics and poor sections.    … Expand
  9. GVB
    Mar 12, 2021
    6
    It's not bad, i mean, the story is cliché af and the ending is nothing new, but the idea of mixing Lovecraft and lust is original and curious enough to play it (although it could have been done much better).. So, if you find it on sale...
  10. Lopiy
    Aug 3, 2022
    6
    it's okay, some people like the story and characters and some might not like it

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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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