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Arkham Nightmares

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Developer:
Tim Rachor
Publisher:
Tim Rachor
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

Arkham Nightmares is an adventure game with rogue-like elements. You play Prof. Liebwerk the head physician of the Lovecraftian Arkham Sanatorium. Your task is to complete your journal with all the stories from the crazy inmates. But before they will tell you anything you have to win their trust.

During the night you will be haunted by terrible nightmares. Try to avoid those horrors or they will drive you insane. On the other hand... a little insanity might help to convince the patients to tell their stories.

Feautres:
  • Innovative genre-mix of adventure, rogue-like and stealth gameplay
  • 1920s setting with eerie atmosphere in the Lovecraftian universe
  • A big island to explore
  • Multiple-choice dialogs
  • Replayability
  • Voice-over
  • Jazz soundtrack
  • Day-Night cycle
  • Adjustable difficulty
  • Gamepad support

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User Reviews

Mostly Negative
12 user reviews
25%
Positive
2 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Difficult to figure out what to do and more difficult to figure out how to do it. Game only saves progress after a completed chapter, but despite probably 12 tries, I still haven't completed chapter 1...sooooo right back to the start. Again and again and again. Admittedly I'm getting REALLY good at doing the same things over and over a little be quicker, but I can't really call that fun. You get the picture.

28 helpful 4 funny
16 min at review
Not Recommended

So this game seems like it COULD be fun, but right now is way too awful to control. Also theres just no direction or guidance, the game just starts, And the narrator is amazing. And bad. Amazingly awesomebad. Heres a video of the first in-game day. https://youtu.be/M0FNBgfpefY

16 helpful 3 funny
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

It should be called Bugs Nightmares... It may be a little hard to understand how the game works specially for people who enjoys tutorials and that kind of things. Anyways, once you understand the mechanics and start to enjoy the game some technical problem appears and always ends with your pc crashing, thing like getting stucked on a bench. I bought this game for the lovecraftian atmosphere. And I really liked, its good looking, the soundtrack its very nice... but its unplayable. Also there are some things that are just stupid, like losing your inventory every morning and have all your items in their original place again... This game should have been sold as a beta, seems unfinished. I really would like to recommend this game, but I can't recommend a game I can't play.

14 helpful
23 min at review
Not Recommended

The game just freezes my pc up and i have to force close it.

5 helpful 3 funny
1 hrs at review
Recommended

This game is one of those games that are just so wierd that it is charming(actually it scared me a little becouse it was so wierd it felt like some kind of game that if you play long enough you get suicidal and it creeps me out a bit). everything about this game is so unpolished that it makes this game unsettling, and in a wierd ****** up way it works well (but might not how they intended it to work), and for those of you who wonder if its intentional i realy dont know. it might be but I think there's a good chance that it wasn't. but dont get it wrong, it will may be considered a bad (or even awful) game by most people and I myself think its a bad game but it does it in such a way that it is enjoyable. everything looks so ugly, the HUD is incredibly bad, and the voice acting is just so enjoyably bad ( seriously, there is one guy that does the main characters voice, and the main character describes and quotes everything you interact with and tries to do like this terrible, wierd accen...

5 helpful 5 funny
1 hrs at review
Not Recommended

Arkham Nightmares is a laughably badly made 2D top down retro pixel "adventure"/quest game ripping off (badly) the work of HP Lovecraft, and is really a very solid demonstration of why works of literature moving into the public domain might be a bad idea after all. This game is extremely buggy and badly assembled. There's comically awful voice acting. The character animations are good for a laugh though as you can watch the protagonist slide around to a halt before actually stopping. Or perhaps he has some eldritch magic that lets him slide around on the floor without moving his feet. No, it's just badly made. So badly made. The game design is very shallow, too, as there's no deep puzzles or anything, it's just giving things to people and exploring... which would be fine if this was some Uber delivery driver game, but it's not. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsole...

3 helpful 1 funny
59 min at review
Not Recommended

I was really hoping to be impressed by this game. I think an hour is ample time to give this game a chance. I have a tendency to find the best horror games in the little played and little understood games but this one was a huge miss. The main problem is that there is no direction or hint of how to play or succeed in this game. You have to build trust with other characters but the whole thing is guess work and I didn't even know what works and what doesn't. The lack of a save feature makes this even more frustrating as I have no break or comparison to tell if what I'm doing is right. The next major problem comes with the nightmares. I know the story mode skips them but I don't see why it makes sense to have to break a game to make it playable. It seems to contradict common sense. The nightmares are confusing and add little to the game. Without them it's more of a visual novel but to be honest I think this game would be more enjoyable if it was. The nightmares a literally a waste of tim...

3 helpful
22 min at review
Not Recommended

I thought this was an RPG Maker game. This is bullshit.

50 min at review
Recommended

I'm not really sure what to say about this game... The story is unclear, the gameplay some kind of overworked old-school and the voice-over are the most terrible i've ever heard (only pro: you can disable them by unchecking "sound" in the menu). EDIT: I needed time to get aroud and actually understande how the game works... now I would give it a 6 out of 10, it's not thatbad after all.

System Requirements

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7 or higher
  • Processor: Core i5-2500 3.30GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 308 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Any

FAQ

How much does Arkham Nightmares cost?

Arkham Nightmares is completely FREE to play. You can download and play it without any purchase.

What are the system requirements for Arkham Nightmares?

Minimum: Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: Core i5-2500 3.30GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 308 MB available space Sound Card: Any

What platforms is Arkham Nightmares available on?

Arkham Nightmares is available on Windows PC.

Is Arkham Nightmares worth buying?

Arkham Nightmares has 25% positive reviews from 12 players.

When was Arkham Nightmares released?

Arkham Nightmares was released on Aug 13, 2016.

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