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Penumbra: Overture


Eerie episodic survival-horror that dumps you in an underground facility deep in Greenland, bolstered with an excellent sense of atmosphere and accomplished physics gameplay

Available on: PC
Genre: Adventure
Expected release date: 2007
Published by: Lexicon Entertainment
Developed by: Frictional Games
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Screenshots updated Apr 2, 2007
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Penumbra Collection Update Released N4G
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Steam slashes 75% off Penumbra titles N4G
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Penumbra: Overture Ships to Retailers N4G
Got Game Entertainment today announced that Penumbra: Overture, a suspense-adventure game for the...
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Free PC games magazine rules them all N4G
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Penumbra: Overture Demo Released N4G
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Penumbra: Overture spooky movie
Physics gameplay demo from the eerie survival-horror adventure
Dec 1, 2006
Maybe it was all the coffee wed been drinking, but Penumbra: Overture (the first in this three-part series) is one of the few games that actually made us jump with fright. Entering the mysterious hatch and opening the mysterious door into all of that mysterious darkness, the protagonist nervously claims he thinks something might be down here in the darkness with him, and that if he happens to run into it, it would most likely kill him. So you crouch, and you hide in the dark from the thing ...
ESRB Rating
Penumbra: Overture is rated:
Mature
Blood and Gore, Language, Violence
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