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Alone in the Dark 1 cover art

Alone in the Dark 1

Infogrames · THQ Nordic · 2016-12-13

Steam

ActionAdventure

Franchise: Alone in the Dark · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: 1994 (3DO Interactive Multiplayer), Sep 1992 (DOS), 1994 (Mac), Dec 10, 1993 (PC-9800 Series), Dec 13, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 10, 1993 (FM Towns)

Alone in the Dark: Classic Collection brings the seminal survival horror masterpieces of the 90's to your PC today.

Alone in the Dark 1 is an Action and Adventure game priced at $14.99, released in 2016, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 455 reviews).

3
playing now
92%
positive of 455 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
72/100
IGDB user rating (83 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Alone in the Dark is a 1992 survival horror video game designed by Frédérick Raynal. Developed and published by Infogrames in 1992 for MS-DOS, the game was eventually ported to Mac OS, the PC-98, the FM Towns, the 3DO, RISC OS, and iOS. Alone in the Dark is set in 1920s Louisiana and challenges the player to escape a haunted mansion. To advance, the player must solve puzzles while banishing, slaying, or eluding various ghosts and monsters. The player can collect and use weapons, manage a weight-based inventory system, and explore a partially nonlinear map.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 84% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 11k–27k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 455 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
333320172026Week of 2017-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742018-11-242021-01-052018-11-24 — best price $3.742018-11-27 — best price $14.992018-12-20 — best price $3.742019-01-03 — best price $14.992019-03-18 — best price $3.742019-03-25 — best price $14.992019-06-26 — best price $3.742019-07-09 — best price $14.992019-07-29 — best price $3.742019-08-05 — best price $14.992019-09-26 — best price $3.742019-09-30 — best price $14.992019-10-28 — best price $3.742019-11-01 — best price $14.992019-11-10 — best price $3.742019-11-12 — best price $14.992019-11-26 — best price $3.742019-12-03 — best price $14.992019-12-19 — best price $3.742020-01-02 — best price $14.992020-03-02 — best price $3.742020-03-09 — best price $14.992020-06-25 — best price $3.742020-07-09 — best price $14.992020-07-13 — best price $3.742020-07-20 — best price $14.992020-09-17 — best price $3.742020-09-21 — best price $14.992020-10-29 — best price $3.742020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $3.742020-12-01 — best price $14.992020-12-22 — best price $3.742021-01-05 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3862052026-06-01 — 348 pageviews2026-06-05 — 272 pageviews2026-06-09 — 245 pageviews2026-06-13 — 233 pageviews2026-06-17 — 263 pageviews2026-06-21 — 263 pageviews2026-06-25 — 245 pageviews2026-06-29 — 308 pageviews2026-07-03 — 303 pageviews2026-07-07 — 273 pageviews2026-07-11 — 240 pageviews2026-07-15 — 239 pageviews2026-07-19 — 263 pageviews2026-07-23 — 250 pageviews2026-07-27 — 265 pageviews2026-07-31 — 217 pageviews2026-08-04 — 243 pageviews2026-08-08 — 229 pageviews2026-08-12 — 243 pageviews2026-08-16 — 254 pageviews2026-08-20 — 266 pageviews2026-08-24 — 243 pageviews2026-08-28 — 240 pageviews2026-09-01 — 252 pageviews2026-09-05 — 234 pageviews2026-09-09 — 252 pageviews2026-09-13 — 386 pageviews2026-09-17 — 246 pageviews2026-09-21 — 323 pageviews2026-09-25 — 329 pageviews2026-09-29 — 231 pageviews2026-10-03 — 316 pageviews2026-10-07 — 278 pageviews2026-10-11 — 354 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

Retro1990'sActionHorrorPuzzleClassicAdventureCult ClassicLovecraftianSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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