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Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness cover
Developers
Cryo Interactive
Publishers
Microids
Russia 1C Company
Engines
Phoenix VR
Release dates
Windows June 9, 2001
macOS (OS X) June 9, 2001[citation needed]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Art styles Realistic
Themes Horror, Detective/mystery, Interwar, North America
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness on MobyGames
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness on Wikipedia

Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness is a singleplayer adventure game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam
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Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Windows
Mac App Store (unavailable)
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macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Steam version has game breaking bugs

Steam version has game breaking bug and some videos won't play.[1]

Late in the Steam version, your alchemic briefcase will be greyed out, which means that you will not be able to progress in the game any further. This file is from the 2001 disk version, which does not contain this bug.

  1. Download this fix
  2. Go to <path-to-game>.
  3. Add the downloaded Necrono.exe into <path-to-game> and select yes to overwrite.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/302390/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\[Note 2]
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/302390/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Retail only
Spanish

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 200 GHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.4
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References