Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (2002) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a psychological horror action adventure, released in 2002 by Nintendo for the Gamecube. It tells the stories of twelve characters that span across the world and two…

90 23 June 2002

What Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is an adventure game developed by Silicon Knights and released in 2002. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The story of Eternal Darkness takes place over four principal locations which the game skips back and forth between. They include an underground temple complex called the Forbidden City, in Persia; a Khmer temple in Angkor Thom, Cambodia; Oublié Cathedral in Amiens, France (not to be confused with Amiens Cathedral); and the Roivas Family Estate in Rhode Island, which also leads to an ancient underground city named Ehn'gha beneath the mansion. Each time a location is visited, it is done so in a different time period. Spanning from 26 BC to 2000 AD. Almost half of which take place in the 20th century. Each different era and character offers a different periodic and personal perspective on the…

Description from the publisher · source

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.

How it was received

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 95 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 15 hrs.

What it launched against

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem launched on 23 June 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, SoulCalibur II and Neverwinter Nights. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, SoulCalibur II, Neverwinter Nights.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer