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Alone in the Dark

More French adventure games. ^ _^

I see everyone already knows about this one but I scrupulously avoided horror stuff and had always assumed from the name this would be dark rather than colorful. And that music really goes!

Alone in the Dark (1992 video game) - Wikipedia :

Initially he [Frédérick Raynal] planned to create the game’s backgrounds using scanned photos of an actual mansion built in the 1920s, but this idea proved too ambitious for the 3D rendering tools available, and the team had to use hand-drawn bitmaps instead.

The game briefly acquired the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game license, but was ultimately denied it when Chaosium determined that the game was too simple to do justice to the rules of the pen-and-paper game. The character Emily Hartwood was added because the conventional wisdom of the time was that a game would appeal to more female gamers if it had a female playable character. To maximize the player’s anxiety and fear, the game was designed so that even such mundane actions as walking down a hall, opening a door, and reading a book could cause the player character to die.

Alone in the Dark (1992) complete playthrough

Also

@AutomaticTiger

Alone in the Dark GBC was pretty bonkers too:

Alone in the Dark - The New Nightmare (Game Boy Color) - castellano

(and the other videos from that conversation videogame things you think about a lot (Part 1) - #517 by AutomaticTiger)

And

Alone in the Dark【FULL GAME】walkthrough | Longplay

Resident Evil copied them and then they copied Resident Evil back and made it pretty weird.