Lust for Darkness

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Lust for Darkness
Developer(s)Movie Games Lunarium
Publisher(s)
  • Movie Games
  • SimFabric
Platform(s)
Release
  • Win, macOS
    • WW: June 12, 2018
  • Switch
    • WW: July 12, 2019
  • PlayStation 4
    • WW: October 16, 2020
Single-player

Lust for Darkness is a 2018 horror game developed by Movie Games Lunarium and published by Movie Games. It is an erotic horror story inspired by Zdzisław Beksiński, H. R. Giger, and H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally released for Windows and macOS. SimFabric published it for Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2019 and 2020, respectively. A sequel, Lust from Beyond, was released in 2021.

Gameplay

Players control Jonathan Moon, who has spent the past year searching for his wife Amanda after she disappeared abruptly. When he receives a letter from Amanda insinuating that she's being held by a cult, he investigates a mansion mentioned in the letter. There, he finds a sex cult engaged in an orgy designed to open a gateway to a dimension called Lusst'ghaa, where the demonic inhabitants engage in sexual violence and torture. Lust for Darkness is played from a first-person perspective and has elements of stealth games. Players occasionally have to solve puzzles to progress, and they must enter Lusst'ghaa, where they are sometimes chased by demons that they must escape. Eventually, they confront the cult's leader in Lusst'ghaa.[1]

Development

Lust for Darkness is the first video game developed by Movie Games Lunarium. They are based in Poland and attributed a trend of transgressive Polish games to a backlash against conservative religious movements.

ESRB, returned on March 20, 2020.[5] Iron VR released a virtual reality version on October 26, 2021. It is available in both unedited and ESRB M-rated versions.[6]

Reception

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Nintendo Life said most of Lust of Darkness's content is "hollow grotesquery employed for the sake of making you cringe".[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Rigney, Todd (2018-10-31). "Review for Lust for Darkness". Adventure Gamers. Archived from the original on 2023-04-03. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  2. ^ Sainsbury, Matt (2020-10-13). "On making games that blur the line between sex and horror". Digitally Downloaded. Archived from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  3. ^ a b Davenport, James (2022-08-30). "Lust for Darkness is cheap survival horror that treats genitals like jump scares (NSFW)". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  4. Gamepressure. Archived
    from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  5. Nintendo Life. Archived
    from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  6. ^ "Lust for Darkness VR". Adventure Gamers. Archived from the original on 2021-11-17. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  7. ^ "Lust for Darkness (PC)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  8. ^ "Lust for Darkness (Switch)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 2024-04-01. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  9. PC Magazine. Archived
    from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  10. ^ Sainsbury, Matt (2018-06-20). "Review: Lust for Darkness (PC)". Digitally Downloaded. Archived from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
  11. Nintendo Life. Archived
    from the original on 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
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