Veil of Darkness
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 11:23 pm
This game has always fascinated me and it is the current "play it until I get distracted."
You are a twenty-something American that crash landed in a plane in some weird town. The box has a vampire on it, so I think it's not a spoiler to say that there will probably be some in the game? You awake in a bed. A hawt native girl and daughter of the home's owner is there at your bedside. She requests that you talk to her father. You do so and he wants you to go fetch a hammer from a neighbor.
I remember it looking beautiful on a real CRT; I am playing now with a filter that the game provides and DosBOX. It is on Steam.
But what really intrigues me about this is that it is an adventure game, mostly - a point and click one. It is not part of any franchise. It was made by SSI, which always had this mystique about them. I always felt like I should have gotten into their games more. Veil of Darkness has been called "short" which is exactly what I am looking for, and I think there is some combat in it, but what it might be like, I have no idea. This came out in 1993, when I was away at college. When I returned back to Rochester and worked at an EB, I think it was there on the shelves one day so I bought it. It has one of those manuals with a good fictional back story in it, which I love (see Knight Orc, The Pawn, etc.).
I don't know how far I ever really got in it, even though I had the floppy or CD-ROM version around. If it was the CD-ROM, it is in the attic above my garage. We'll see how this goes because I always assume games are 120 hours and I will never finish them, but boy it'd be nice to finish a game this year.
You are a twenty-something American that crash landed in a plane in some weird town. The box has a vampire on it, so I think it's not a spoiler to say that there will probably be some in the game? You awake in a bed. A hawt native girl and daughter of the home's owner is there at your bedside. She requests that you talk to her father. You do so and he wants you to go fetch a hammer from a neighbor.
I remember it looking beautiful on a real CRT; I am playing now with a filter that the game provides and DosBOX. It is on Steam.
But what really intrigues me about this is that it is an adventure game, mostly - a point and click one. It is not part of any franchise. It was made by SSI, which always had this mystique about them. I always felt like I should have gotten into their games more. Veil of Darkness has been called "short" which is exactly what I am looking for, and I think there is some combat in it, but what it might be like, I have no idea. This came out in 1993, when I was away at college. When I returned back to Rochester and worked at an EB, I think it was there on the shelves one day so I bought it. It has one of those manuals with a good fictional back story in it, which I love (see Knight Orc, The Pawn, etc.).
I don't know how far I ever really got in it, even though I had the floppy or CD-ROM version around. If it was the CD-ROM, it is in the attic above my garage. We'll see how this goes because I always assume games are 120 hours and I will never finish them, but boy it'd be nice to finish a game this year.