Indie

Penumbra Overture

89% positive of 3,809 Steam reviews

To finish: 3 h
Released: 2009
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam, GOG

Made by Frictional Games.

About the game

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Tagged by players

Horror
Survival Horror
Psychological Horror
Lovecraftian
First-Person
Stealth
Dark
Atmospheric
Adventure
Story Rich
Survival
Puzzle

What players say

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Indie

Penumbra Overture

89% positive of 3,809 Steam reviews

View on Steam

To finish: 3 h
Released: 2009
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam, GOG

Made by Frictional Games.

About the game

Penumbra: Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore.

Tagged by players

Horror
Survival Horror
Psychological Horror
Lovecraftian
First-Person
Stealth
Dark
Atmospheric
Adventure
Story Rich
Survival
Puzzle

What players say

Recommended
While it has its frustrating moments (I'm looking at you, spider-cave,) it's still my favorite installment in the series. Not by much, though. Black Plague is phenomenal, and there isn't a single segment in that game that tries my patience or irritates me. It's best experienced blind, but I did not mind replaying it either. I guess, duh, everything tends to be better experienced the first time around. I don't really…
7.2 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
It's interesting to see where it all began for Frictional Games. You can feel the beginnings of what would eventually become Amnesia throughout. The mournful, oppressive sound design, the physics puzzles, the note-based storytelling, the frantic chase sequences, it's all hear in more or less rough form. Even more than The Dark Descent, you can see the connection back to classic 90s puzzle/adventure games, with a lot…
6.1 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I didn't really enjoy this one. I've heard so many good things about the Penumbra series so I was really excited to play this but ended up going away very disappointed. Maybe if I had played this when it came out I would appreciated it more but as it stand today, it is a deeply outdated game that isn't scary nor fun to play and has been outclassed in every way. I think Overture has a very strong start but it falls…
10 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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