Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is an adventure developed by Zoetrope Interactive, released 28 May 2010 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage is an adventure game developed by Zoetrope Interactive and released in 2010. It was published by Iceberg Interactive. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Darkness Within is a series of adventure games inspired by famous horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. In "The Dark Lineage", the second installment of the Darkness Within series, players again take the role of police detective Howard Loreid, who suffered from the paranormal happenings around him in the first volume “In Pursuit of Loath Nolder”. Now, Howard discovers that his own horrible past is connected with the madness that is about to swallow him. This second volume will see the Darkness Within saga come to its unsettling conclusion. The Dark Lineage will take you to places where the "things" of the past still live, and all the memories that should be long-forgotten are still remembered…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage 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 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Darkness Within 2: The Dark Lineage launched on 28 May 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Xenoblade Chronicles. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Xenoblade Chronicles.
Official trailer
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