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Darkness Within 1: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder

Stormling Studios · Iceberg Interactive · 2014-11-13

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 09, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

0
playing now
73%
positive of 633 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
37/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
65/100
IGDB user rating (19 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$7.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder is a first-person 3D adventure / horror thriller video game. It takes place in an imaginary "Lovecraftian" place called Wellsmoth. As police detective Howard E. Loreid, players are tasked to solve the murder of Clark Field, a wealthy man involved in the occult. At the top of their list of suspects is Loath Nolder, a highly respected private investigator who mysteriously abandoned his last case for reasons unknown. Rumor had it that he ventured to several exotic places around the world. It remains a great mystery as to why Loath Nolder disappeared so suddenly, resurfacing five years later and resuming his investigations just as abruptly as he had left them. Why does this venerated P.I. now sit on the other side of the law?

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  • · Top 37% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 16k–38k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 633 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Fanatical (2021-10-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 29 of 42 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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

Price history

$7.99$1.192015-01-012026-08-102015-01-01 — best price $4.792015-12-01 — best price $1.992016-08-15 — best price $1.832016-12-12 — best price $7.992017-09-05 — best price $1.602018-02-19 — best price $7.992018-10-10 — best price $7.192018-12-18 — best price $1.442019-05-09 — best price $1.592019-11-25 — best price $7.992020-04-21 — best price $7.992020-06-19 — best price $7.992020-08-12 — best price $7.992020-09-20 — best price $7.192020-10-26 — best price $1.592020-12-14 — best price $1.592021-01-25 — best price $6.692021-03-07 — best price $7.992021-04-12 — best price $1.592021-05-17 — best price $6.692021-06-25 — best price $1.592021-10-27 — best price $1.292021-12-24 — best price $1.362022-03-25 — best price $1.602022-06-20 — best price $1.592022-08-06 — best price $7.192022-09-23 — best price $1.602022-12-01 — best price $5.872023-02-16 — best price $1.592023-05-26 — best price $6.292023-10-20 — best price $1.602024-01-04 — best price $7.992024-04-11 — best price $7.992024-08-23 — best price $6.292024-11-27 — best price $1.432025-05-19 — best price $1.592025-11-20 — best price $6.712026-04-28 — best price $6.292026-08-10 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Polish

Player tags

DarkIndieHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichAtmosphericFirst-Person

Census log

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

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