Penumbra: Overture is an adventure developed by Frictional Games, released 30 March 2007 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 11 hrs to finish.
What Penumbra: Overture is
Penumbra: Overture is an adventure game developed by Frictional Games and released in 2007. It was published by Paradox Interactive. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on HPL.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the year 2001, Penumbra: Overture follows the story of Philip, a thirty-year-old physicist whose mother has recently died. After receiving a mysterious letter from his supposedly dead father, Philip follows a series of clues that lead him to a mysterious location in uninhabited northern Greenland.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Penumbra: Overture holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 98 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 11 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 Ghz, 256MB(XP) of RAM and Radeon 8500 / Geforce 3(MX4 Not supported). At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Penumbra: Overture launched on 30 March 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, Persona 3 FES, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: God of War II, Persona 3 FES, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Penumbra: Overture yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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