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Dark Fall: The Journal

Darkling Room · THQ Nordic · 2013-12-03

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 19, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This Myst-style horror-adventure game will bring fear into your heart. From the very beginning you are exposed to an overwhelming but invisible ghost presence – strange calls, footsteps, voices from nowhere. In order to help your brother and survive you will need to solve the mystery of this abandoned, haunted place. And remember!

0
playing now
79%
positive of 310 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
78/100
IGDB user rating (15 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Dark Fall is a 2002 first-person psychological horror/adventure game developed and independently published for Microsoft Windows by Jonathan Boakes, under the XXv Productions label. After the independent release proved a success, with the game selling well and generating good word-of-mouth, The Adventure Company purchased the rights, releasing it worldwide in 2003 under the title Dark Fall - The Journal. The game was re-released twice in 2009. Firstly, by Boakes' own company, Darkling Room, in a limited "Pins & Needles" edition, and later by Iceberg Interactive, as part of their Adventures in Terror: British Horror Collection. The game was made available on Steam in December 2013.

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  • · Top 48% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 310 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$4.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at GreenManGaming (2014-12-31) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 61 of 102 observed days · $4.25 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

302026-08-11 20:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-15 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-16 11:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-22 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 10:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.742015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $0.742015-07-21 — best price $1.242015-12-01 — best price $4.992016-05-13 — best price $1.492016-10-29 — best price $1.002017-03-20 — best price $1.242017-07-17 — best price $4.992017-11-29 — best price $4.992018-04-30 — best price $1.242018-09-06 — best price $1.252018-12-10 — best price $1.242019-05-14 — best price $1.242019-09-13 — best price $1.242019-12-17 — best price $1.242020-05-11 — best price $1.242020-10-30 — best price $1.242021-02-15 — best price $4.992021-08-02 — best price $1.242021-11-24 — best price $1.242022-02-23 — best price $1.242022-07-05 — best price $1.252022-10-27 — best price $0.792022-12-27 — best price $1.242023-04-04 — best price $4.992023-07-18 — best price $4.992023-10-30 — best price $1.242024-01-06 — best price $4.992024-04-18 — best price $4.992024-08-10 — best price $4.992024-11-28 — best price $1.252025-01-20 — best price $4.192025-05-20 — best price $1.242025-09-08 — best price $1.092025-12-03 — best price $4.242026-03-19 — best price $1.242026-06-18 — best price $1.242026-08-30 — best price $4.99
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

HorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureAtmosphericFirst-PersonSupernaturalPoint & Click

Census log

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

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