A Plunge into Darkness

So 6 friends set out to explore an old, supposedly uninhabited castle just for an evening of fun. Only it is a huge, creepy, strange, and interest grabbing castle that is a complex, maze-like adventure that presents multi-layered challenges in order to figure out just what has and is going on and what will be the final fate of the 6 adventurers. Simple starting out, the castle grows more complicated with various twists and turns that will keep the player guessing ---- yet there is a certain logic to the sprawling layout that will keep you going for just one more area or room. Save frequently, and explore everything and everywhere as the castle is loaded with rewards and surprises ---- always fully investigate your surroundings completely. The art is fantastic ---- from the castle layout to the enemies ---- all are very well done. The characters are mixed from serious to strange yet keep the story moving and the interest up. One of the best aspects of the game is the challenge level ...

As typical for Aldorlea Games, this is an RPGMaker-built game, but with pronounced survival horror elements: Your party spends the entire game trying to escape a haunted mansion, with no stores, a limited supply of items to acquire, and no inns or other cheap ways to restore HP (though skill points recover during battle, and some skills can heal HP). The gameplay offers quite a bit of fresh air. You have the usual leveling up by getting experience points from battles, but you can also choose a special upgrade from a selection after defeating a boss, such as increasing a certain stat or increasing a skill to a different tier. The skills themselves are delightfully oddball while also useful. For instance, one does extra damage if the enemy is afraid, and another does a whole onslaught of hits to randomly selected foes. Oh, and you have a whopping six party members. I've played dozens of RPGs over the years, but this is the first time I've seen that outside of a Tactical RPG. You'd...

not good

meh

A plunge into darkness is a short horror game made with RPGMaker. It took me a while to digest this game after I played it as I don't really play horror games, but overall I liked it in the end. Overall I felt the game had an interesting story about 6 people as they tried to find a way out of the place they had entered, and as you played you got to watch how the events slowly affected them. Only thing I didn't like is I felt the last two boss battles went on a little too long even on Easy mode, and could probably stand to have a little less HP in the end. Overall though worth checking out if you need a short game to play for a day or so, and like horror games.

I can not in good faith recommend this game. At multiple points the game forces the player painfully search multiple maps desperately trying to find how to progress. The dev has made every effort to hide how to progress, either relying on the paid for guide, or in an attempt to force players to buy the guide. At no point is the progression spot for entering the underwater passage HINTED at in game with text- no clues are given, no sparkle or marker. It is purely progress through the entire map to date attempting to press action on every square- and that is the 5th time such a thing happened in my playthrough. I wanted to enjoy this game. I truly wanted to recommend it. However with the for sale guides, combined with this horrible game design failing- I can not. I hate to give an indie developer a negative review like this, but it is frankly completely earned by said developer's actions and choices.

Not wild about ending and last boss battles were a long slog but i liked it . Fun game

Great graphics and artwork. Fun to play, but the game was a little short.

big fat nope from me. Not enough healing items.

[h2]A Plunge into Darkness[/h2] Has a total of [b]5[/b] trading cards.