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Alone in the Dark 3 cover art

Alone in the Dark 3

Infogrames · THQ Nordic · 2016-12-13

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

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

Releases: 1994 (DOS), 1996 (Mac), 1995 (PC-9800 Series), Jun 21, 1996 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enjoy up to 70 hours of gameplay piecing together this dusty puzzle and breaking the grip of the town's curse. Every cobwebbed corner holds a new clue, but be warned: you'll find no friends in the trigger-happy souls who drift across your path like so much tumbleweed.

74%
positive of 139 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)
Alone in the Dark 3 is a 1995 survival horror video game developed and published by Infogrames Multimedia. It is the third installment of the Alone in the Dark video game series. The video game was released for MS-DOS in 1995. It was ported to the PC-98 later that year. Versions for Windows and Mac OS were also released in 1996.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 35% of 26,012 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–8.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 139 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Italian

Player tags

1990'sActionHorrorClassicWesternAdventureLovecraftianSurvival Horror

Census log

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

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