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Dark fantasy video games

  • Quake (video game)Only one developer came in to upload Quake on launch day. That was John Romero, who left id Software soon after.
  • Legacy of KainLegacy of Kain is a dark fantasy video game series that landed in a legal fight in 1998, before its second game had reached shelves. Silicon Knights, the studio behind the first game, sued Crystal Dynamics for the rights to the franchise.…
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight PrincessThe Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 action-adventure game from Nintendo, owes part of its identity to a strange dream. Its director, Eiji Aonuma, dreamed during an overseas business trip that he was a wolf locked inside a cage.…
  • Hollow KnightHollow Knight has sold more than 15 million copies as of August 2025, and it was built by Team Cherry, a small independent studio based in Adelaide, Australia. The player controls a nameless insectoid warrior, commonly called the Knight,…
  • Devil May CryDevil May Cry began as a failed Resident Evil prototype. Capcom let it become its own game instead of scrapping it.
  • CastlevaniaCastlevania is a gothic horror action-adventure series from Konami, and its first staff roll in 1986 was full of disguises. The director and programmer, Hitoshi Akamatsu, was credited as Trans Fishers, a nod to the horror film director…
  • Hollow Knight: SilksongHollow Knight: Silksong, a 2025 Metroidvania from the Australian independent studio Team Cherry, spent years as a game people talked about more than played. On the 16th of January 2021, a YouTube fan channel called Daily Silksong News…
  • American McGee's AliceAmerican McGee's Alice begins in 1863, with a house fire that kills the parents of Alice Liddell and leaves her badly burned and psychologically shattered. The game reached players in 2000, and its title carries the name of its designer, a…
  • Devil May Cry 5A hooded stranger walks into a demon-hunting office in Devil May Cry 5, and the young hunter on duty, Nero, politely offers him something to eat. The stranger answers by ripping off a demonic Devil Bringer arm, which transforms in his hand…
  • Vagrant StoryVagrant Story, a 2000 PlayStation game, had no shops at all. Players built their own gear in workshops instead.
  • Vampire: The Masquerade – BloodlinesVampire: The Masquerade , Bloodlines sold 72,000 copies in its initial release and earned roughly 3.4 million dollars. That is the entire commercial story of a 2004 action role-playing game from Troika Games, published by Activision for…
  • DishonoredDishonored, a 2012 action-adventure game from Arkane Studios, begins with a murder its hero cannot prevent. Corvo Attano is bodyguard to the Empress of the Isles. Assassins restrain him by magic and kill her. Corvo is framed for the crime…

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