Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.6h 8.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.35/hr
- Reviews
- 22% of 448 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A darkness has fallen over the town of Lorwich. Monstrous hordes emerge from beyond the realm of nightmares to sow chaos on the land. As one of four heroes, you must battle the minions of the old ones with the force of arms, and the power of illumination.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX or AMD Radeon 6850 HD series card, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
76 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Resident Evil Revelations 2 ($5.99, scores 55) outscores it, and so does Resident Evil 5 ($19.99, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Alone in the Dark: Illumination™
Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 22 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
15% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A deeply flawed, yet fun game. That's all the words you need to read really. The game had so much promise but I don't know if it's the developers or publishers that simply didn't care enough, or didn't have knowledge enough to make it better. The game is functional but it often feels deeply unfair against the player with enemies appearing anywhere and everywhere -- mostly right behind you and pretty much all the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alone in the Dark: Illumination™ scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/275060/alone-in-the-dark-illuminationReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.