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The Dark Eye is a computer game of the horror genre, released in 1995 for the PC by now-defunct software company inSCAPE. Upon its release, the game attracted little attention from either critics or consumers, though it has received some attention since.

The game featured combined 3-D graphics, clay animation and video segments. With its unconventional interface, storyline, and characters, the game’s peculiarity became its selling point. The characters are largely lifelike in appearance except for their clay-modeled faces, which are often distorted or feature grotesquely exaggerated features. This near-realism, sometimes referred to as the Uncanny Valley, contributed to the game’s ambience of unease and anxiety.

Also notable was the use of author William S. Burroughs as a voice actor: Burroughs provided not only the voice for the character of Edwin, but also voiceovers of a short slide-show sequences illustrating “The Masque of the Red Death”. There is a fifth story, which is not easily noticeable, which can be found while reading the newspaper during “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the story is called “The Premature Burial”.

This game was (and is) amazing. Click here to get a sample of what the game was like.

Amazing stuff. It’s a shame there aren’t more interactive experiences like this.

-Floyd Bishop