Of course, the plot takes plenty of turns from there once the monsters and mysteries of the mansion reveal themselves though, and it was in every way a precursor to what we know now as the survival horror genre. The plot consisted of an old mansion, the mysterious apparent suicide of its previous owner, and an old piano that exists in the house, which is the initial object of interest in the story as it is wanted by several parties and it supposedly quite valuable in a number of ways. To quickly recap, in 1992 Alone in the Dark was released on MS-DOS and a couple other popular PCs of that time. So what happened? Why would a series that set the bar for its genre, and possibly deserves most of the credit for inventing its genre, go so long without a new game and sink into obscurity as much as this series has? What the hell happened to Alone in the Dark? You rarely see successful franchises go more than 3 or 4 years without a new entry, let alone six. Not exactly an eternity from now, but six years is still six years. The last game to release in the series was in 2015. Well, you’d be right about that but also wrong at the same time. With that level of innovation for the horror genre, which was barely even its own genre at that point, you would expect that the game would receive several sequels and live on as a timeless classic survival horror franchise. The original game’s art style of polygonal foregrounds and more detailed pre-rendered backgrounds is one that might ring a bell for fans of the original few Resident Evil games, but again, Alone in the Dark preceded Resident Evil by several years. This is interesting because Alone in the Dark precedes almost every other game that we would call survival horror.
Silent Hill, Resident Evil, and newer franchises like Amnesia and Outlast – all of which are more than worthy of the praise they get, but a series that seems to escape being mentioned a lot lately is Alone in the Dark. A lot is often made about the juggernauts of survival horror.
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