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Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
Developer Pure FPS
Alone in the Dark: Illumination is a 2015 third-person shooter video game developed by Pure FPS and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. The game is the sixth installment of the Alone in the Dark series. It received negative reviews from critics and was the last title in the series to be published by Atari, as the intellectual property has since been acquired from Atari SA by THQ Nordic. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
299 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
22
Rotten
41 positive · 143 negative
95% range 17–29%
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| Steam reviews | 41 | 143 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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115 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
99 of 448 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 299 · most liked firstI'm a dev here on Steam, so I know the grinds of development very well. I'm never normally the type to leave negative reviews for that same reason. But this? Boggles my mind how this got released. I played this for 13 minutes, and saw numerous issues that would have had me sending this back until they were fixed: Glitchy/sluggish menus, ugly textures, clunky controls, enemies take too many shots to kill, animations are wonky, and enemies glitch through walls making them almost invulnerable. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When game over screens go hard, causing cosmic horrors beyond mortal comprehension to come boiling out of the nether reaches. 🦑 📺: Alone in the Dark, Infogrames, 1992 (PC DOS)
unlabelledView post →This has to be, hands down, the biggest piece of doodie I've played this year. I can't belive this was ever released. Good thing for Steam refunds, It's obvious that this was a very crappy game that Atari sank way too much money in and put the Alone in the Dark brand on it just so it would sell a few copies. Tank controls, crap visuals, bad models, horrible physics, and the sound distorts to the point that the game is completely inaudible. It has controller support in game but not in the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aaaaaaaand just like that they killed the last hope for the Alone in the Dark Franchise. Now I've never written an actual review before but this is the game that made me have to do it. That's how bad it is. I recieved this a couple months ago, when they sent out closed BETA invites and was excited to see a new Alone in the Dark coming. I wasn't even aware that a new one was being produced so I became excited. So I redeemed the key and downloaded it and then opened it thinking I'd relive the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As we celebrate the community’s efforts in video game preservation, we’re giving away Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3, a cornerstone of survival horror history and part of the GOG Preservation Program. Grab these masterpieces before February 5th at 2 PM UTC and enjoy them forever 💜
unlabelledView post →This was legit good stuff. It’s a shame it did badly because it really did its best to make a game that felt true to the spirit of Alone in the Dark. So few games in the series actually ever bothered to do that.
unlabelledView post →It's like a Left for Dead without fun, good combat and shooting, art design, ballance and players. Don't buy it. It's a new game what is already dead. No lobby, no players. Single Player is horrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game. Just, this game. I have written few, if any reviews, but this one seems worth a special mention. It's laughable how bad this game is. Literally nothing about the game is even decent. I'd be mad, but I saw it coming. I don't even want my money back, it's just a terrible game. The animations, the character models, the combat, the actual gameplay. I cannot describe how bad this is. I felt nothing while playing it. Maybe this is the Old Gods' attempt to bring us all down a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →@rtushnet.bsky.social, @markpmckenna.bsky.social, and I filed an amicus brief opposing THQ's argument that Mar Vista can't make a horror movie called "Alone in the Dark" about, well, people who are alone in the dark because it made a video game with that name ecf.cacd.uscourts.gov/doc1/0311469...
unlabelledView post →My first 100% Completion of 2025 🏆 Alone in the Dark isn't the most technically sound game but boy does it have a lot of charm, I couldn't put it down 😭 If you're a fan of Resident Evil & Silent Hill then you're likely to enjoy this too!
unlabelledView post →Alone in the Dark, 1992, running on my IBM PS/2. This genial game invented the survival horror formula years before the term became famous. Polygonal characters, fixed cinematic cameras, puzzles, monsters and counted resources.
unlabelledView post →I wrote a review of the new Alone in the Dark, remarkable for actually being a *proper* Alone in the Dark game! Read more here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/alone-i...
unlabelledView post →Alone in the Dark... for survival horror fans, the franchise needs no introduction; it's indeed the grandfather of the genre, predating the rise of Resident Evil by four years. The earlier games, namely the initial trilogy, are completely bare bones by today's standards, but they're still considered some of the best survival horror experiences to date. Alone in the Dark: Illumination is the sixth release in the series, and it brings with it a new approach in terms of gameplay. Moving away from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ALONE IN THE DARK - Derceto Mansion. one of my earliest game memories 🧟 drive.google.com/drive/folder...
unlabelledView post →Summary: The ability to refund on Steam came just in time, although I do wonder who other then people looking to cover games would even consider this game over games like Killing Floor 2. It is in the running for the worst game of 2015 very quickly, and it's made it clear with its horrible animation quality and abysmal enemy AI that Atari has bottomed out as a publisher at this point. The Alone in the Dark franchise, if you can even can call that a franchise anymore, is now buried with an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New Genesis game from Frédérick Raynal, creator of Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure, complete with cool spinner controller? Sign me up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...
unlabelledView post →Frédérick Raynal, the director of the original Alone in the Dark is kickstarting a new genesis game - a remake and expansion of his old arkanoid Popcorn - and a paddle controller to go with it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...
unlabelledView post →Edward Carnby rolls over in his grave. Original dev team puts a bounty out, all of $5. Stand in light, lose massive frames, lag out, rinse repeat The original had a great story, great puzzles, if it aint broke dont fix it. These get worse and worse as time goes on. Even when it is free, and it will be at this rate of dropping prices for a game that just came out, pass it by, give the steam refund center a chance to breath :)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GOG is giving away the Alone In The Dark trilogy for a limited time: www.gog.com/en/#giveaway We have maps of the first game on VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas, thanks to @vgcartography.bsky.social: vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/ind...
unlabelledView post →Leave this one Alone™ If someone told me this was a free Left for dead mod, I still would have been unimpressed. This is not an Alone in the Dark game, they just slapped it's name on top of cloned format. Everything about it rubbed me the wrong way. The gameplay mechanics, the unneeded chromatic aberration, the lack of of FOV options, boring objectives, even the title annoyed me. Be "Alone™" with 3 friends! No, bugger off. Uninstalled.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you ❤️ “retro” games and Megadrive / Genesis in particular, check out what Alone in the Dark creator @frederickraynal.bsky.social has launched on Kickstarter: a brand-new spinner controller for SEGA’s console and Fred’s classic game Popcorn with an awesome new 2P sequel, Popcorn Duel. Link below.
unlabelledView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33401179/]Follow my curator page for more recommendations! I pre-ordered this game, hoping for it to be a decent L4D clone with Alone in the Dark elements. I know that's not what most (if any) AitD fans wanted, and I can understand that. When this game released it was a broken, buggy, clunky, terrible mess. I uninstalled it and moved on when the devs stopped posting on the forum and disappeared for a few months. However, just the other day I noticed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I heard how bad this game supposedly was. Watched very negative reviews on youtube. But something made me want to try it anyway. Got it for $5 on a steam sale and I'm happy I did. This is not a bad game. Not a good game, But certainly not bad, I've played several games that were far worse this year alone. At launch it may have been bad, but it seems after some patches in the years following its release, they fixed a lot of the criticisms. The atmosphere is pretty nice, Some spooky locations…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well didnt played the beta much time tbh, first bc i wasnt able to change keys in game, but then decided to script my config manually and then try the game to see what was made so far. Soon i realized that this got nothing to do with any previous AITD games, first bc its Coop/MP oriented, even that only sp was available in beta, it was clearly developed with that in mind bc right after you start the game with assault rifle modified with flametower, you are flooded with monsters that keep…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since Alone in the Dark creator and game dev legend Frédérick Raynal and I decided to make a @play.date game together. SKEW is a crank-powered handheld spin-off of my VR console, PC game The Last Worker - and I love it to bits. Hope you play our endless spinner!
unlabelledView post →Whats a bad game with a great feature? Like Alone in the Dark 2008 had this awesome diagetic inventory system
unlabelledView post →VGMaps.com has over 50,000 maps for over 3500 games. The vast majority are made from in-game graphics, but a few are hand-drawn. @vgcartography.bsky.social's maps of the classic PC survival horror game, "Alone In The Dark", are a neat mixture of both! Check them out here: vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/ind...
unlabelledView post →1. dev's haven't updated since dawn of time 2. it needs an update 3. yes I paid full price 4. don't laugh 5. there is no 5 would bang again what a crock of ♥♥♥♥
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Sematary lyrics] Alone in the Dark and I’m Crying Game On the Playstation and It doesn’t feel the same Call me Pennywise the clown like I’m your old flame In the Cube from Cube and Jigsaws my name [Bridge] Texas Chainsaw Massacre Hausu Bad Seed Twin Peaks Zombi Two the movie Creep 2014 Blair Witch
unlabelledView post →This is FASCINATING. Resident Evil itself is functionally an Alone In The Dark successor- that game sorta set the template for the entire genre, even if it's lesser remembered for a bunch of odd reasons. This is, functionally, a Resident Evil demake back to the style of Alone In The Dark.
unlabelledView post →Been playing Alone in the Dark for a bit. Despite some expected jank, there's some decent atmosphere, great acting and a fun jazzy soundtrack. Shame about the studio shutting down, it's a neat game🐀
unlabelledView post →Ok where to begin ... while a fan of the horror genre and i mean the lovecraftian kind i have been surprised by the storytelling into the game , no cutscenes at all , a text story line which leans more on the gothic / emo prose than actual lovecraftian storytelling at all . Yes really EMO since the character spends half a page describing her emotions. The old gods versus new gods principle is in the game which is minimal for a lovecraftian storyline but while the ambiance is there something is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alone in the Dark (PS5/XSX) is $19.99 on Amazon amzn.to/3SJPtZj #ad US PSN buff.ly/pdr7vMB Xbox (Game Pass discount) buff.ly/TELkKU2 (Steam) $12.75 Gamebillet buff.ly/QLXKbpR $13.19 GOG buff.ly/BCrtIuT
unlabelledView post →I'm going to go against the general opinion here when I say that I do recommend this game, at least, I do since the June 2016 patch. Alone In The Dark: Illumination suffers from one major design flaw that's caused it garner such hate from it's audience... the fact that it's called Alone In The Dark. Whilst I am a small fan of the AITD franchise, I am also open-minded when first playing a video game and play them without expectations or immediate judgement. Alone In The Dark this game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The original Alone in the Dark trilogy are FREE on gog at the moment. Honestly, you haven't lived if you haven't played the first. It's jammed with Lovecraftian references and is one of the ways I first discovered the mythos back in... oh god... 1992!?! IS IT THAT OLD? www.gog.com/en/game/alon...
unlabelledView post →I had high hopes for the game TBH... I even held out after reading the reviews thinking it can't be that bad.... it is that bad. There's nothing about it that pulls you in or makes it even remotely interesting to play!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is exactly the type of game I like, but I've never seen it done worse. This is like a combination of Resident Evil 4, Left 4 Dead, and Alan Wake, except terrible in every way. It's a Co-op shooter, but good luck finding anyone to play with. The controls are stiff and awkward, it all feels very dated. The guns feel just horrible. No recoil, no feedback or anything. There's also serious lack of guns. The enemy AI is just terrible, don't think I've actually played a game with worse AI.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →watching someone hate play Alone in the Dark for the Wii and you are never alone in that game, plus your NPC companions will not shut the fuck up.
unlabelledView post →It's Halloween, so i've added a whole bunch of horror-themed titles to the Game UI Database! Including Dying Light: The Beast, Alone in the Dark, Eternal Darkness, Cronos: The New Dawn and the terrfiying Peppa Pig World Adventures. Enjoy, mortals: www.gameuidatabase.com/index.php?&s...
unlabelledView post →GIVEAWAY: www.gog.com#giveaway Alone in the Dark (2024): www.gog.com/game/alone_i...
unlabelledView post →story line and game play suck,,you just walk aimless around untell your killed..game is complete craap they lost sight if what alone in the dark use to be..they need to go back to there roots make it like the alone in the dark befor this one..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good news for Sega Dreamcast fans who love horror! 🦇 👉A 3D survival horror game is in development from JoshProd. 👉The Alone in the Dark trilogy (and Jack in the dark) is being ported to DC by Isotope Softworks. The demos are playable now. ❓Info here: www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2026/03/horr...
unlabelledView post →i'd like a refund NOW
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frédérick Raynal, the creator of Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure, is crowdfunding a new Sega MegaDrive / Genesis game (complete with a cool spinner controller)! Here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...
unlabelledView post →Hey folks, I've added Alone in the Dark to my Steam curator page. If you've been watching my streams lately, you'll know how much I enjoyed it, so this is getting a thumbs up. store.steampowered.com/app/1310410/...
unlabelledView post →Single Player Review: This game has nothing in common with the AITD series and it’s no AAA title. No intro, no cut-scenes, more or less no noteworthy story (provided in text form only). It’s all about finding objects (mostly batteries…) and your way through the dark. Along the way you are fighting some monsters. The level design, the surroundings and the atmosphere of light and darkness is impressive. So if you are fine with that and your expectations aren't too high, that’s your game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never felt compelled to write a review for any game in the past - but this game was so disappointing that I feel I ought to warn others who may have fallen into the same trap that I did. I had previously played the original 'Alone in the Dark' games way back in the 1980s and really enjoyed them as I was and still am a great fan of HP Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos. Therefore I pre-purchased this game thinking this would be an updated version of those games I knew and loved. However this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →need to know from the true survival-horror-game heads if the new Alone In The Dark game is worth my time
unlabelledView post →Went to look up the “Evil” endings after beating the new Alone in the Dark (great game!) and the one you get tor Edward is so funny and grim, incredible
unlabelledView post →This Is really bad. I thought that Alone in the dark 2008 was bad but this makes that one look like a masterpiece . The controls are slugish and the missions seem to only invlole picking something up and taking it to a location and doing that several times. Mission 1 was pick up some wire mission 2 was pick up some batteries. thats as fas as I managed to get before I gave up on it. Very dissapointing .
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From playing 2hours and getting to the last map of the first campaign as an engineer, The first few maps on coop, third map on solo. TLDR; [ Good coop game, current state value about $20, get it at current price if you have cash to spare. Make sure you have friends to play with, as there is seldom anyone playing this game. Game has almost no story content or cutscenes/voice. If you dont mind not having an engaging story and just want a blast with your friends doing objectives and staving off…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →worst game ever made its a hard core rip off of left for dead and the haunted hell reach with on anything good about it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game. Not amazing, but solid enough. Definitely way more fun playing with friends than alone, although it's not bad alone, either. Some repetative gameplay, and some really wonky animations. I like the dynamic of each class; they're all very different from one another. My personal favourites are the Engineer and the Hunter. I'd give it a 7/10, probably. Play it with friends, and it'll be a fun time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Resident Evil(02).(Are there any good video game to movie adaptations? Yeah. It's not bad) Far Cry(08).(Oh good God this is the worst movie ever) Alone in the Dark(05).(Nope. This is worse. This is so much worse) Aliens(86) (MichaelFassbenderperfection.gif)
unlabelledView post →I'd rather go on a walk alone in Paris in the dark instead of playing this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alone in the Dark? I can't believe they made a game about the experience of growing up in Manaus and having frequent power outtages every time it rained
unlabelledView post →HORROR THING A DAY #5 - The original Infogrames's ALONE IN THE DARK (1992) My dad has this game on his first PC in the basement, and it scared the crap out of me.
unlabelledView post →Spannend, sperrig, höchst historisch: Bei GOG gibt es die klassische "Alone in the Dark"-Trilogie zwei Tage kostenlos für PC: www.gog.com/de/game/alon...
unlabelledView post →A rogue, no saving during mission level, enemies spawn so no real clearing out a level. Game has basic narrative....that's about it, I cannot recommend this game, I mean I guess if you like run type games you may get something out of it, but it's a shallow game with nothing really there.....I didn't like it and I agree with other reviewers.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yay or Nay? Gameplay: Broken and glitchy. Graphics: Outdated and clunky. Sound and Music: Feels very cheap. Story: You shoot stuff because reasons. Price: Get it for less than 5$ if you really want this game. Final verdict: Nay!
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