RPG's with dark atmosphere

[madhouse]

As per title. I'm trying to build up a collection of games to play through. I define dark very loosely.
I'll start:

• Gothic
• Gothic 2
• Fear & Hunger
• Darklands

 

[The_Mask]

Dark Souls

Spoiler

It's in the name...

 

[Xeon]

Underrail, all of it happens deep undeground in the dark.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Tyranny.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Witcher trilogy (except from Blood and Wine, although there was a healthy portion of maccabre there)
Vampire: Bloodlines
Vampire: Redemption
Gorky-17
Demonicon

 

[Falksi]

Serpent in the Staglands. Absolutely beautifully wondrous vibe. Delicious.

Sadly too empty to be worth playing to completion, but worth playing for 5-10 hours just to absorb that magical vibe.

If there's any game I'd like to see a proper sequel to, it's this one (and the Shadowrun series)

 

[CryptRat]

Quest for glory IV : Shadows of Darkness

 

[Gregz]

Diablo I

 

[Horvatii]

KZ Manager
no wait, its actually fun

 

[Parsifarka]

Darkside of XEEN

 

[Verylittlefishes]

The Age of Decadence is pretty grim.

Also Daemonica & Pathologic, although they only look like RPGs.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

Dark Souls

Spoiler

It's in the name...

I like games with Dark in the title. Dark Earth, Dark Eye, Dark Brotherhood...

 

[muds_animal_friend]

Dark atmosphere? It's not an RPG, but I wish just one save-the-world-chosen111111 RPG had a plot similar to Myth: The Fallen Lords: relentlessly downbeat, always emphasising the increasingly hopeless odds, and a final victory that feels completely hollow next to the cost. That's what fighting the Supreme Dark Lord of Utter Darkness should feel like.

Spoiler

Major plot spoilers:

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[V_K]

Soulbringer. In a very literal sense - the game is dark: it uses darkness instead of fog to limit the draw distance, and the result is super atmospheric:

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Inquisitor

 

[madhouse]

Inquisitor

This game is so tedious it kills what is good about it.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

You never asked for a good game.

 

[madhouse]

You never asked for a good game.

Of course; I actually liked the atmosphere specifically.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Darkstone

King's Quest 8: Mask of Eternity

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Dark Sun 1 & 2,
Underrail (well, the setting is underground...),
System Shock 2 (kind of dark sci fi/horror),
Arx Fatalis (setting is underground, for a reason...)
Shadowlands (literally dark),
Shin Megami Tensei IV (at the beginning it does not look so dark, but soon there is a huge twist in the setting),
Perihelion (mediocre RPG, but great dark atmosphere).

 

[Silly Germans]

The Shadowrun Returns games are rather on the dark than the bright site.

 

[JRIz]

As per title. I'm trying to build up a collection of games to play through. I define dark very loosely.

With this (lack of a) definition, how will you be able to play everything that will be mentioned?

Siege of Avalon has a very dark atmosphere.

 

[V_K]

Also, Anvil of Dawn:

And, come to think of it, almost any Event Horizon/Dreamforge game before it: The Summoning, Veil of Darkness (not an RPG though), Dusk of the Gods, Ravenloft, Menzoberranzan...

EDIT: In fact, most real-time blobbers/gridders tend to just exude menace and doom: Dungeon Master and CSB, Grimrock 1&2, Legacy: Realm of Terror, Vaporum...

Darkstone

Yeah, I'm not sure this one counts. Lots of its quests are very Larian-style - helping fairies and unicorns and stuff.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Fallout Sonora