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Antumbra: Vile Shards

In a nutshell: Choose Your Own Adventure, Choices Matter, Text-based, Point & Click, Exploration, Multiple Endings and Interactive Fiction. Dark and surreal psychological horror. Strongly inspired by…

20 December 2021

Antumbra: Vile Shards is an adventure developed by Vilehead, released 20 December 2021 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Antumbra: Vile Shards is

Antumbra: Vile Shards is an adventure game developed by Vilehead and released in 2021. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The player walks the land of Sorma'ksul in the shoes of Icon of Rust - an undying entity, forever cursed to be vessel of extradimensional consciousnesses. Story takes place right after previous game end - saving Eskalion, who then vanishes from his own universe, leaving the Land of Rust and Moss in hands of Vile The main goal is to survive and maybe escape. Saving the world is probably out of your reach. Then again, who said this world want to be saved...?
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Antumbra: Vile Shards launched on 20 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and GTFO.

Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, GTFO.

Official trailer

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When did Antumbra: Vile Shards come out?
Antumbra: Vile Shards was released on 20 December 2021 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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