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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

Genre: Adventure
Expected release date: 2007
Published by: Lexicon Entertainment
Developed by: Frictional Games

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Patch 1.02 (Retail/Digital Download)

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Penumbra: Overture Ships to Retailers

Got Game Entertainment today announced that Penumbra: Overture, a suspense-adventure game for the...

News from N4G May 8, 2007

Free PC games magazine rules them all

Issue 5 of PCGZine has a review of The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows on Angmar, and is surprised...

News from N4G Apr 26, 2007

Penumbra: Overture Demo Released

A Penumbra: Overture Episode One demo is now available for fans to try out before they buy. The...

News from N4G Mar 7, 2007

Penumbra: Overture spooky movie

Physics gameplay demo from the eerie survival-horror adventure

Dec 1, 2006

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Review

Find yourself alone in the dark

Apr 2, 2007

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 ...

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