Dark Scavenger

updating review. evidently some people find my review helpful. The "no" is for the base price. $5 could buy you a lot better. Its too much for the kind of game Dark Scavenger is. Even getting the game on sale at $2.50 feels a bit like a gyp. Dark Scavenger, and I know I'm going to get crapped on for saying this, feels and looks a lot like a flash game you could play for free on newgrounds. Hell, you could watch a playthrough start to finish on youtube and not lose much of the experience of actually playing it. There's not much to it. First: some people keep insisting Dark Scavenger is part jRPG. This is untrue. The closest the game gets to being a traditional jRPG is having menu driven combat and that's it. There's very little RPG about Dark Scavenger. It is almost entirely a choose your own adventure point and click game. Dark Scavenger is a real one-note game. Its very search about the screen for things to click on, an event triggers, fight maybe, "scavenge" an item, and craft it...

To be honest when I first saw Dark Scavenger here on Steam I was mildly interested and thought this was just another RPG. However it is far diffferent than just another RPG game. To describe Dark Scavenger then I would state it is a point n click RPG game with twists of comedy and bizareness. When encountering enemies in this game there are plenty of other means to rectify the situation. If you love RPG games and love to laugh while also being able to make choices in this game, then stop reading and go buy it!

This game looks like it could have been made in the 90's, and that is in no way a bad thing. All the artwork in the game looks like it was hand drawn and the developers use the minimalist static character design in a great and often fantastically funny way. The gaming world seems so focused on graphics nowadays they forget that graphics simply accentuate a game design, they do not make a game great. A great game touches a gamer's emotions and draws them into the world the designer has created. This game will absolutely suck you in and make you chuckle, chortle, guffaw, cackle, snicker, and maybe even regret (there can be some surprisingly dark consequences to your actions in such a light-hearted game.) So how to describe the game.. I'll start off by saying you will spend most of your time in this game reading. If you don't enjoy reading in your games then I suggest you move on right now. If you do enjoy reading then I highly suggest this zany space opera-esque adventure in which you a...

What a gem. It's the perfect marriage of RPG "dungeon" crawlers and choose-your-own-adventure books. Don't be fooled by the UI – it's better to think of the game as a descendant of text-based adventure games. And the great writing does glue everything together. It will have you giggling, or, in those moments that the game has sufficiently worn down your defenses, laughing uproariously. Definitely a cult classic – I would have loved to have played this game when I was still a kid!

I put this game on my wishlist after seeing it on the sidebar and seeing how it looked interesting, it looked like this space game I saw in a magazine when I was a kid (tried looking for the name of the game, but couldn't find it), So I thought I'd eventually buy it down the road expecting it to be a somewhat mediocre game that'll give me a few hours of gameplay. Well, the game went on sale with the Thanksgiving sale, bought it for almost 3 bucks, and stayed up all night playing it, it was that good. You play an alien that's stranded out in space, who soon comes across a galactic being who wants to consume you. After defeating him you're left to rot in space for years and eventually you're picked up by a group of aliens called the Dark Scavengers who are pretty much intergalactic junkers who invite you to join their crew if you can help them by finding a fuel source for their ship. This leads you to going down to the nearest planet full of your typical medieval fantasy setting includi...

Game requires Adobe AIR. Adobe no longer supports Linux and the installer requires root access. Unfortunately, the Adobe Air install program doesn't seem to know how to construct paths in Linux and it fails-out. I'm using Ubuntu so it's possible it might work under other distros but I do not recommend it for Ubuntu. I want my money back.

I cannot recommend this game more highly. It may not be suitable for those who like bells and whistles and constant blood. But for the discerning adventure/rpg enthusiast, Dark Scavanger offers a fresh and satirical take on the genre while casting eyes back to the days of early crpgs. The mechanics are simple, but beneath the point and click interface interesting choices can be made. Some choices are available depending on whether you have the right weapons, equipment or allies. You acquire these items by finding artifacts as you uncover the mysteries of the planet below. One of three aliens aboard the ship you reside – Kamaho an undead weapons master, Falsen a greenish trickster, and Gazer a mute and very alien alien – will forge the artifact into something unique. Story and writing are the main selling points of Dark Scavenger. I won’t spoil it by going into detail. Enjoy the humour, quirkiness and silliness of this inventive and imaginative journey that you won’t want to e...

This game in many ways reminds me of Zork minus the art work (now that will date me - Zork as far as I know was the first actual computer game; a text based choice adventure, played on a mainframe, back in the day when one needed punch cards and PCs did not really exist, circa early 1980s). I digress. Dark Scavenger is a bit point and click, a bit hidden object, a bit text based D&D choice driven adventure with quite a bit melee mixed in using the crafted weapons, items and allies one has managed to scavenge and a whole lot weird. Odd characters, even stranger allies, and relatively conceited enemies make this game uniquely interesting. This game seems simpler then it actually is, and dying can happen easily by making wrong decisions or choices. Choices really matter, especially in combat where melee attacks are limited to what weapons one has available to use. Hopefully along the way one has made the correct decisions on who to craft with, where one has looked for items, what in...

Amused me and kept me interested, the game itself is pretty simple and could do ALOT more with what they have, but with what they do have they use fairly well. The game is pretty casual, I died only a couple times and those times I did I usually did so by forgetting to heal myself. All and all, it's not expensive. it kept me entertained for a few hours and I would actually like to see a sequel and really, thats all I ask of a game like this.

This was something different.I felt like my choices mattered, like a replay would be worth my time, and that there was a level of skill and planning required. This game rewards you for paying attention to multiple layers of input. It has clever mechanisms which make boss battles quite dramatic and entertaining, full of dialogue and meaningfl choices. This is a game you play 1 handed, with mouse only. So grab a drink, or whatever is your poison and play.