Post-Launch Review
Penumbra series
Developer: Frictional Games
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
Released: Overture, March 30 2007; Black Plague, February 12 2008; Requiem, August 27 2008.
Note: I'm reviewing the Penumbra series as a whole because they're short episodic games that form a complete story. Just for reference, the entire trilogy took me about nine hours, or roughly three hours per game.
About
The Penumbra games are a first-person survival-horror adventure series. You play as Philip, a man whose mother has recently died and whose father, whom Philip has never before met or spoken to, sends him a cryptic letter. Following the clues, Philip makes his way to an abandoned mine, where he is soon trapped by a cave-in. He is forced to search the mine for a way out, dealing with oversized monstrous fauna, an insane survivor, and scraps of history dating back decades. As Philip uncovers more clues it becomes apparent that something sinister and horrific is going on.
