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Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness

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Developer Cryo Interactive

Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness, also known as Necronomicon: The Gateway to Beyond and Necronomicon : L'Aube des ténèbres in French, is a 2000 video game developed by Wanadoo Edition and released for Windows and the PlayStation video game console. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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  • Martini Dog 🏳️‍🌈 @martinidog.spoteyemusic.comBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    Necronomicon 📖 For "All Under Control" by @mrjimmydafloof.bsky.social Play the game here (18+): hyenanoises.itch.io/all-under-co...

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  • Dave Zhang @godsavant.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    The ominous double doors at the start of the trailer were loosely modeled after a set of ancient Nepalese doors posted on r/Carpentry in 2024! The engravings were inspired by the intermission art from Doom II and the Necronomicon from the Evil Dead films. The in-game version was drawn by ffive.

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  • NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2025

    Your posting about this game has the vibes of someone periodically skimming through the Necronomicon wondering if anything changed and every time the answer is "Yup. Still evil."

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  • Erik, of Portland, but Scary for Halloween @erikgunderson.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and Necronomicon. It would be a bit like Forrest Gump for modernity, but it'd look like Game of Thrones. I'd sex it up a bit.

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  • DJ TRiST @dezm101.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    Necronomicon Pinball (saturn) one of the best soundtracks to a pinball game by John Petrucci of Dream Theater #scanlinesunday

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  • Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Keeper Bob Geis of YouTooCanCthulhu's Call of Cthulhu game at #NecronomiCon Providence featured in the newspaper of record! bit.ly/4x8jzK4

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  • Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Full house of cultists for our live game of Call of Cthulhu at #NecronomiCon in Providence RI on Saturday night! Mike Mason was Keeper; his investigators were Brian Courtemanche, Paul Fricker, Ed Fuqua, and Matt Ryan.

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  • Mikayla 🦇 @florrnion.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    Snoop Dog has utilized the Digital Necronomicon™️ to invoke Tupac into his fuck ass video game.

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  • revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    Important to note that this was the last game developed by KAZe of Digital Pinball Necronomicon/Last Gladitors fame

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  • Duck Made Of Wood @duckmadeofwood.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    DO YOU LIKE LOVECRAFTIAN GAMES? Well then... wishlist ESCAPE FROM 8-BIT HIGH! *wink wink* store.steampowered.com/app/2761220/... #lovecraft #lovecraftian #game #cthulhu #necronomicon

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  • Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    Setting up to play this 1994 Japanese PC98 adventure, Necronomicon, a hybrid of Giger, Lovecraft, and Anime. Seems to work fine, even without DeepL. Still, having had experience with Fairytale's work before, streaming it on Twitch might be quite risky. Maybe if there's enough interest I'll try?

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  • Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blogBluesky · Jul 31, 2026

    56) MYSTERY OF THE NECRONOMICON (黒の断章, 1999) - Our first anime on the list! This OAV is a sexually-explicit adaptation of the video game. There's a lot of Lovecraftian influence in Japanese animation and comics in general, but this is a fun 90s adult horror romp.

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  • Ash, Fortuna's Weaver @ashodin.comBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    I have discovered Power Rangers Pinball it is bad but it has led me to quite possibly the most cool virtual pinball game ever Necronomicon

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  • Duck & Crow Press @duckandcrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Counting and folding books and making bundles for 5 shows in 6 weekends! Jul 10-12: Ironweld Jul 17-19: OGC Jul 25-26: SaGaCon Aug 8: Wolf Crest Game Con Aug 13-16: Necronomicon Come play some games! Meet some new friends! Make a few enemies! #osr #ttrpg #zine

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  • Armand Castro @evilplanets.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    As a huge fan of both, Lovecraft and Evil Dead, I did want my own "Klaatu-Verata-N-n--estor" moment. So this is it! And yes, there's a hidden #Necronomicon weapon somewhere in the game. #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #Gamedev #GothicHorror #GamingCommunity

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  • Halls of Nyarlathotep @nyarlathotephalls.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 1, 2026

    You cannot have Lovecraftian game without most iconic book in fiction: Necronomicon is coming to Halls of Nyarlathotep! 📖 It's a powerful weapon to wield against the nightmares, but using it comes with a cost... Stay tuned for more info 👀 #necronomicon #render #3dart #horror #lovecraft #gamedev

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  • Armand Castro @evilplanets.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 9, 2025

    Since I already included an unspeakable tentacle monster... I figured, WHAT THE HELL, why not just add the actual #Necronomicon. Yes. The game now has a Necronomicon. No, you can't easily find it. #Indiegamedev #FPSgames #IndieGame #UnrealEngine #SoloGameDev

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  • The Quigadook @quiggy.itch.ioBluesky · Aug 25, 2024

    had a really enjoyable Spire run yesterday on Ironclad where the game never gave me any exhaust synergies besides a single copy of Feel No Pain and no strength but I got over the line and killed the Heart entirely with Necronomicon and Bash+/Uppercut+. God I love this game.

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  • 🎃 真紅太刀 🎃 @shinkutachi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2026

    OMG! Al Capone! Demons! The Necronomicon! The synopsis for this game is wild as hell! Animation by Madhouse! Sakuraba on the OST! I will definitely be getting this! 😃 #EarnestEvansCollection www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1By...

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  • ohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    Soukyugurentai Necronomicon & Last Gladiators pinballs Sega Rally the Panzer Dragoon games the Clockwork Knights Mr Bones Sonic R Hyper Duel's arranged mode Burning Rangers Virtual Hydlide - 2fps meme game that's actually legit Radiant Silvergun any 3D Sega arcade game except Daytona

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  • more mork @momark.meBluesky · Sep 15, 2024

    Post a random game in your collection Saturday Digital Pinball: Necronomicon The beasts are coming! Run. RUUUN! From the developers of Zombie Nation and Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators. They went all out on this one, especially the music. For those pinball likers out there, don't MISS this one1

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  • JuniperTheory @bimbo.cityBluesky · May 20, 2026

    Huh!!! This is really cool. Necronomicon next? Akira psychoball??? THE FORGOTTEN SMT PINBALL PHONE GAME MY HOLE GRAIL OF PINBALL PLEASE

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  • Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2026

    lmao the Magic opened a portal to hell during the second half of Game 6, and now they're tortured by Tobias Harris in Game 7, as foretold in the Necronomicon.

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  • Anikse 🕊️🍂 @anikse.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    The easiest fix to this issue is to level up Necronomicon of Fate to x200, but that requires either playing the game a lot or paying some money to speed up the leveling up massively.

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  • Armand Castro @evilplanets.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 2, 2025

    I am seriously considering adding the Necronomicon to my game, "Dungeon" as a prop, part of me actually wants to put it in as a secret weapon but I haven't made my mind up yet! Help me make THIS and other decisions at my Patreon! Coming soon. #Necronomicon #EvilDead #IndieGameDev #Prop #IndieGame

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  • Daily Indie Games @dailyindiegames.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    Today's indie game is Sucker for Love: First Date! This is a horror/romance visual novel! Using a bright-pink Necronomicon you summon Ln'eta, a cthulhu girl! To win her heart over you'll need to perform a few rituals from the book first! They're safe... right? Dev: @akabaka.bsky.social Link below!

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  • GMJennui @gmjennui.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    My 3rd NecronomiCon finished. This year I didn't do panels just games. I didn't play a single game of CoC the entire weekend. I did play quite a few unpublished and indie games.

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  • Florest 🌿 @stranger-garden.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2026

    I found the ultimate cat. It's Ferdie cat!!! 🥺 And as an original Ferdibert enjoyer, I let him run all the way to the graveyard with a Necronomicon equipped. As you do. 11/10 best game #mewgenics

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  • Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    🐙📿✝️ Sister Beth surrounded by a whole bunch of tentacled monsters and one horny cosmic cultist, seconds before shit went down, and by that I mean her heroic sacrifice of ramming a copy of Necronomicon in Azathoth's face. Cthulhu: Death May Die is a great game.

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  • revolver ocelthot @rnaboursiii.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2025

    Digital Pinball Necronomicon is one of the wildest games I’ve ever played, it feels like a video game version of Sadeness by Enigma but also John Petrucci did some of the music for some reason

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  • Ezra Caleb Wōðening na hAngla-Ghaelacha @ezrabadbwest.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    Current mood; You and your friends are dead, Game Over by Necronomicon Ex Mortis, Welcome to Cobra Island by Wordburblar and Greedripped & Spellspoilt by Battlemaster.

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  • shaderaygun @shaderaygun.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 26, 2024

    Nice! I had my first chance to be a player in a CoC game at NecronomiCon. Uncle Timothy’s Will. We all died. It was great!

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  • Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blogBluesky · May 30, 2024

    When you see the Necronomicon show up in a Japanese manga or piece of card game art, odds are it'll have a face on it because of the Necronomicon ex Mortis in EVIL DEAD II. Giger's biomechanical style, especially expressed through the ALIEN franchise, is like peanut butter to Japan's chocolate.

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  • Cthulhu Reborn @cthulhureborn.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    Here's a spotter's guide to finding our games if you're lucky enough to be at NecronomiCon right now. We have a dozen books available on @baytalazif.bsky.social's Eldritch Indie Publishers Table of Doom -- you can see a few on the right side of this pic.

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  • GrimFenris @ulfrgrimdark.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2026

    Thanks! I love that they added this book to the game world. Sort of like the Necronomicon.

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  • Hi sir err @cheisserer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2025

    It is my firm belief that “Finnegan’s Wake” exists in every timeline and in every book/game/movie setting, and is the source of madness behind all of it. Not cthulhu. Not Multiverse of Madness. Not Necronomicon. Finnegan’s. Wake.

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  • Goodman Games @goodmangames.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2024

    Stop by the booth, or game with us this weekend at two possible conventions! We'll be at both NECRONOMICON in Providence RI and PHOENIX CON in Appleton, WI. We can't wait to see you all there! 😃 See more info: goodman-games.com/blog/2024/08... #NECRONOMICON #PhoenixCon #TTRPG #DCCRPG

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  • George J. Horvath @landofobscusion.bsky.socialBluesky · May 20, 2026

    The final Digital Pinball-branded game by KAZe would be Akira Psycho Ball on the PS2, which I remember really enjoying & felt was a great follow up to Last Gladiators & Necronomicon. I feel that the bad reputation it tends to get is mainly because it's the only GOOD video game adaptation of Akira.

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  • DanHELL M. Ford @soundingline.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2026

    I am going to try to avoid watching the Os game today. It is May 17 but here we are. Watching this team is like trying to read The Necronomicon.

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  • Herolaha ~Adventurer Catboy Vtuber~ @herolaha.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    Oh yeah we played... Silhouette Mirage Digital Pinball Necronomicon Kyuutenkai pinball Megaman 8 (of course) Sonic R Mr. Bones Virtual Hydlide (Good game) Waku Waku 7 (screw Fernandeath...) Mr. Bones and Detana Twinbee Yahoo!

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  • MiracleMoan @miraclemoan.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Thank you for taking part. 🫶 Necronomicon (Flash game) Outlast Jazz Jackrabbit Oni Hollow Knight Nightmare on Elm Street

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  • nurvuss | excavation of bob's harrow @nurvuss.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 16, 2026

    I mentioned the campy movie Return of the Living Dead in the first DOTB video, which they went as far as to use as the subtitle for the second game, so obviously a lot of love for that too! One day my Japanese will be good enough to cover their Necronomicon game

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  • Nikki loves her girlfriend yay @sleepy.etheirys.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    tryna derust at this fuckin game this is one of the most fun Silent decks I've ever had. Necronomicon with Sneaky Strike goes hard

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  • VirtualAlex @lexkrasny.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2025

    And then for something completely different, I played some pinball. From the same company that did Necronomicon pinball (which I love!) they made this game too: Last Gladiators. I love it. #saturn #retrogaming

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  • Skylarka 💿🎵 New album OUT NOW @skylarka.rocksBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    Yoshi explores the Necronomicon and develops a comprehensive bestiary the game

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  • Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazziMastodon · Aug 6, 2025

    Dei Culti Oscuri, In octavo, Genova, 1791. I made my pseudobiblium Dei Culti Oscuri (Concerning the Dark Cults) in 1991 as a prop for my Lovecraftian role playing games, 250 leather-bound pages in a fake archaic Italian made with Amiga 500 and a 9-pin dot matrix printer. You can freely download a PDF scan of this tome from my blog at https://in-tenebris-scriptus.blogspot.com/2014/08/dei-culti-oscuri-1791.html And... if you liked it, consider a small donation through the PayPal button on the…

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  • jae @jkap.gayBluesky · Jul 2, 2025

    yet another W for the greatest game ever made, Digital Pinball: Necronomicon

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  • Animated AF! @animatedaf.co.ukBluesky · Apr 10, 2025

    Friendly reminder that Digital Pinball: Necronomicon is an absolute masterpiece, peak of the artform video game.

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  • Flobelle @flobelle.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    working on a PC game for the final project of my Masters in Game Design about performing rituals from the Necronomicon. Here’s the first two. I think it’s starting to look good. 😃 #cthulhu #lovecraftian #steamgame #horrorgames

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  • Derrick Rushlo @derkawesome.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2024

    My desk also looks like that when I’m prepping my Dungeons and Dragons game. *Looks at my old brown paper bag covered Necronomicon #TheLastDriveIn

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  • Dana Priebe @queenofnopants.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    Game idea: A cult of trans people protect the Necronomicon at all costs because while it's name can be translated as The Book of Dead Names, it's more accurately translated as The Book of Deadnames.

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  • Daniel “Spooky Nickname” Tirebiter @danmofftarkin.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 13, 2026

    That was inspired by the game Fistful of Boomstick, the plot’s big inciting incident is someone (not Ted sadly) reading the Necronomicon on a live TV broadcast and unleashing a horde of Deadites on the city of Dearborn.

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  • Casual Conquests Gaming @casualconquests.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    Continuing Tales of Phantasia Klarth has been recruited and he's useless, so we're gonna get him a summon spirit, Sylph. I'm disturbed his first weapon is the Necronomicon. Live Now: twitch.tv/spaz343 #talesofphantasia #rpg #ps1 #retrogaming #smallstreamer

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  • Elias Rachel @eliasrachelwrites.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    NecronomiCon begins this day. My sacrifices are prepared. And I'm nervous as hell to run my first con game.

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  • PassionGuard @passionguard.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2026

    Evil Dead: The Game! Can we destroy the Necronomicon or DIE trying!? youtu.be/AFoD7VJKvgs

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  • atomic811 @atomic811.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2026

    Cthulhu Mythology The Great Book of The Necronomicon Playing Card Board Game Poker Card (Amazon Affiliate Link) amzn.to/4i1ltHm

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  • Orlean Cooper @orleancooper.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    I'm watching the game with my eyes closed through the Necronomicon. Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo are commentating in Tolkein's Black Speech, and they're laughing at full Here Comes The Pizza! volume.

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  • [love.self.hate] @loveselfhate.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Why is it just Last Gladiators though? And not like a double-pack with (the superior game IMO) Necronomicon?

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  • Talien (World of Welstar) @worldofwelstar.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2026

    YASSSSS! My last game which was supposed to be a giant battle across three bridges turned out to be a Necronomicon-style exploration, creepy exorcism, and one bridge battle with farmers mostly being rescued from the rushing river, but still...success!

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  • StephenTBW @stephentbw.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 19, 2026

    Every single clip I've seen from this game feels like the dev is cooking--and his recipe book is the Necronomicon

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