Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Explore disturbing corners of the human psyche. Delve into a dimension of nightmares, the occult and a tense psychological world created in classic Lovecraftian style. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, you are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is a adventure, horror and lovecraftian game developed by Stormling Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive.
Released on November 13th 2014 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish and Russian.

It has received 600 reviews of which 438 were positive and 162 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows® 2000 / XP / Vista™
  • Processor: 1 GHz Intel® Pentium® processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 128 MB DirectX® 9.0c compatible or better video card
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 1100 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card

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April 2025
It's clunky and confusing at times but damn i still really enjoy playing through it once in a while (52hrs is not from one playthrough). I just love the story and atmosphere of the game and how it gets you with it's sound- and art design. I saw people in other review talking about "long" documents you need to search through for clues and how "bad" it is because apparently reading bad, but i enjoyed these because they add a lot to the story, explain circumstances and overall add to the immersion of being a detective, but i admit being not able to take them with you is a dumb design choice. Runs great even on modern pcs and i never encountered any bugs in 4 playthroughs so yeah if you're into these kind of games, go grab it. Imo it's worth the price or get it on sale for, what do i know, 99ct or how low it goes.
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March 2025
I've played this on and off for many years.....I love the oppressive feeling of impending gloom.
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Dec. 2024
A classical point'n click quest in "Lovecraftian" style: enchanting and horrifying in ones. Would you retrieve the truth behind the murder of Mr.Clark? Could you avoid the Darkness which is lurking around every corner? Is that all real or just a product of your (in)sanity? Time to found this out.
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Sept. 2024
A surprisingly great late-00s point&click mystery/horror game. One of the last ones made before the Penumbra games changed the genre forever. Solid atmosphere, appropriate music and sound effects, and thought provoking puzzles make for a great all-around experience. One problem with the game is the "Howard's Mind" mechanic, which can either make perfect sense or be completely baffling depending on the puzzle at hand. Don't be ashamed to seek help from a walk-through in the later chapters of the game.
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Aug. 2024
One of the best horror adventure games I've played. The plot it's great and full of twists, the puzzles are challenging, and the whole investigative aspect of it having to inspect documents and all it's very well done.
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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 7.79€ on Steam.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder received 438 positive votes out of a total of 600 achieving a rating of 6.96.
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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder was developed by Stormling Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is not playable on MacOS.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is not playable on Linux.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is a single-player game.

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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder does not support Steam Remote Play.

Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder PEGI 7
7.0
438
162
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Online players
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Developer
Stormling Studios
Publisher
Iceberg Interactive
Release 13 Nov 2014
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