Darkest fear – pass 15 mysterious levels hiding puzzles and dangers. One wrong move and the game will be over.
Darkest Fear is without suspense, its slow-paced puzzle-solving and substandard graphics keeping it from becoming a shining light of survival.
Darkest Fear is a puzzle game with the heart of a horror movie. You step into the shoes of Mr Thomas Warden, a self-professed ‘history researcher’ who has received a phone call from his wife, Susan, a doctor at Grim Oak’s Hospital. Turns out she wants you to search the hospital for your daughter, apparently a patient there.
The atmosphere is immediately eerie, featuring some of the creepiest music you’re likely to hear in a mobile game. A film noir ambience permeates the frequent cut-scenes, maintaining a bleak sense of despair as you traverse each level, searching for the exit.
In order to achieve this you must solve a series of fairly linear puzzles. Keys can be found in closets and used to open various doors, for instance, while other doors can be opened by pushing a crate on top of a switch (a security method used too rarely in modern hospitals). Occasionally, you might also find a stack of crates blocking a doorway, which need to be pushed away in order to continue.
And all of this would be fairly simple but for Darkest Fear’s rather nasty twist.
