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Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare cover art

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

Darkworks · THQ Nordic · 2013-10-29

SteamGOG

ActionAdventure

Franchise: Alone in the Dark · Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 24, 2001 (Dreamcast), Jun 29, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 28, 2001 (PlayStation 2)

From the moment Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac set foot on Shadow Island, they are confronted by mysterious, evil creatures intent on thwarting their progress to recover 3 ancient tablets believed to hold the secret key to some incredible menacing phenomena. Danger threatens from every corner.

0
playing now
71%
positive of 699 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
98/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is a survival horror video game and the fourth installment and first reboot of the video game series Alone in the Dark, developed by Darkworks and published by Infogrames. The game was released in 2001 on Windows, PlayStation, Dreamcast, and Game Boy Color. A PlayStation 2 version of the game was also released several months after and only in Europe.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 40% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 699 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.68 at GameBillet (2024-03-26) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 64 of 109 observed days · $6.31 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$15.01$0.682015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-08-05 — best price $4.032016-01-29 — best price $2.092016-07-01 — best price $5.992017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-11-22 — best price $1.392018-02-27 — best price $1.752018-08-30 — best price $6.992019-01-03 — best price $6.992019-06-06 — best price $1.752019-09-26 — best price $1.742019-12-03 — best price $5.992020-03-27 — best price $6.292020-07-13 — best price $1.742020-12-01 — best price $5.992021-05-14 — best price $1.742021-09-24 — best price $1.742021-12-30 — best price $1.752022-06-01 — best price $1.752022-09-12 — best price $1.742022-12-07 — best price $5.632023-03-17 — best price $1.752023-07-13 — best price $6.992023-11-02 — best price $6.992024-02-12 — best price $6.992024-06-04 — best price $6.992024-10-08 — best price $6.992024-12-23 — best price $1.742025-04-18 — best price $1.092025-08-22 — best price $6.992025-11-24 — best price $1.742026-03-17 — best price $1.752026-06-25 — best price $1.702026-08-30 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

ActionHorrorPuzzleClassicAdventureLovecraftianSurvival HorrorFemale Protagonist

Census log

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

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