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The Warden

The Warden is a first-person psychological-horror game with puzzles. Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who, after losing his family, lives his life in an alcoholic loneliness. His life is interspersed with…

18 March 2016

The Warden is an adventure developed by Black Mist Studios, released 18 March 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Warden is

The Warden is an adventure game developed by Black Mist Studios and released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Warden is a first-person psychological-horror game with puzzles. Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who, after losing his family, lives his life in an alcoholic loneliness. His life is interspersed with moments of lucidity and states of trance that seem to leave, as only trace, mysterious drawings of dark landscapes in which stands a big figure with deers horns…
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How it plays

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

What it launched against

The Warden launched on 18 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley and Hitman.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Stardew Valley, Hitman.

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When did The Warden come out?
The Warden was released on 18 March 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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