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Alone in the Dark 3

Alone in the Dark 3 is a direct sequel to Alone in the Dark 2 and the last game of the original canon of the series. It has the exact same gameplay as the first two games but with reload action removed, more…

31 December 1994

Alone in the Dark 3 is an adventure developed by Infogrames, released 31 December 1994 on DOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.

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What Alone in the Dark 3 is

Alone in the Dark 3 is an adventure game developed by Infogrames and released in 1994. It was published by AMT Savan Corp. It is available on DOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It's 1925 and Edward Carnby is called to investigate the disappearance of a film crew at a two-bit ghost town known by the name of Slaughter Gulch located in the Mojave Desert in California. Among the disappeared crew is Emily Hartwood. Edward soon discovers that a curse has gripped the town, and an evil cowboy from the Badlands named Jed Stone is the one responsible for the crew's disappearance. Lurking around town are many trigger-happy sharpshooters, deranged prospectors, and bloodthirsty lost souls whom Edward must ward off with both his strength and his wit.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Alone in the Dark series

Alone in the Dark 3 is the third of 13 entries we hold in the Alone in the Dark series. It arrived 12 months after Alone in the Dark 2. The next entry was Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3 in 1995.

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What it launched against

Alone in the Dark 3 launched on 31 December 1994, within three weeks of Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw and Battle Arena Toshinden.

Released around the same time: Umihara Kawase, King's Field, WWF Raw, Battle Arena Toshinden.

Official trailer

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When did Alone in the Dark 3 come out?
Alone in the Dark 3 was released on 31 December 1994 for DOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and PC-9800 Series.

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