All Just a Dream: The good ending in Requiem is an example of this.Air-Vent Passageway: Used at the beginning and towards the end of Black Plague.Phillip, suffering from severe Genre Blindness, instead follows the trail to a forgotten old mine somewhere in northern Greenland, where he promptly finds himself trapped and (seemingly) alone during a blizzard.Ĭreated by Frictional Games (the company that went on to make the equally terrifying Amnesia: The Dark Descent) Penumbra is also notable for its unique engine that allows solving puzzles through clicking, dragging, and directly interacting when using items, giving an especially genuine, immersive atmosphere that even earned Black Plague a nomination for best script (from The Writers Guild of Great Britain, that it ultimately lost to Overlord I).
Spanning two games and an expansion pack, note Overture, Black Plague and Requiem respectively Penumbra is a Survival Horror series that follows physics professor Philip LaFresque, who, after attending to his mother's funeral, receives a letter from his long dead father Howard instructing him to destroy a breadcrumb trail of mysterious documents without reading them.
