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Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood

Arcatera is a role-playing game. Much of the gameplay is dedicated to exploring the town and its surroundings, talking to people and gathering information that will advance the story. The player can choose to…

50 1 August 2000

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood is an adventure developed by Westka Interactive GmbH, released 1 August 2000 on Dreamcast and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood is

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood is an adventure game developed by Westka Interactive GmbH and released in 2000. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on Dreamcast and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Something is rotten in the quiet medieval town of Senora. A mysterious Dark Brotherhood seems to have taken control over the town, and it's the player character's job to discover the identity of the villains and liberate the inhabitants.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood launched on 1 August 2000, within three weeks of Paper Mario, Grandia II, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child and Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Paper Mario, Grandia II, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000.

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When did Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood come out?
Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood was released on 1 August 2000 for Dreamcast and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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