Dark Seed

Dro Soft released Dark Seed in the year 1992; it's an old horror adventure game, part of the Dark Seed series. Dark Seed is abandonware, runs on DOS and can be played in single player mode. It's available for download.

Rating: 3.96

(23 votes)

abandonware

Genre:

adventure / point & click

system:

DOS

released:

1992

publisher:

Dro Soft

developer:

Cyberdreams

designers:

Michael Cranford, Mike Dawson

keywords:

horror, modern world

Downloads for Dark Seed

Download Dark Seed Manual Walkthrough

Trouble running this game? Check out the F.A.Q.

Screenshots

Screenshots were taken by Abandonware DOS.

Video

YouTube video courtesy of Squakenet.com.

Additional info

Facts, trivia and collector's notes are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. These texts use material from this Wikipedia article.

Unlike most adventure games, which give the player time to explore, almost every action in Dark Seed has to fall within precise time limits, or the game will end up in an unwinnable state. As a result of this as well as the game's frequent crashes, one must start over repeatedly to win without resorting to a walkthrough.

An urban legend spread that the intense pressure of designing Dark Seed gave lead designer, Mike Dawson, a mental breakdown. However, he actually left the games industry after completing Dark Seed and moved into television writing until the late 1990s, wrote two books on programming (Beginning C++ Game Programming and Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner) and is teaching game design and programming classes at Stanford University and UCLA.

players: single player

input: keyboard, mouse, joystick

distribution: 3,5 floppy disk, cd-rom

graphics: EGA, VGA

sound: Adlib, PC speaker, Sound Blaster

Abandonware DOS popularity: below average

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