Barking from the Dark

Barking from the Dark is a first-person horror game about a lonely night-shift worker at a remote railway crossing. You maintain the crossing, let trucks and heavy freight trains from the mines pass, and investigate the strange barking that led the previous operator to disappear. All that remains of the operator is a note.

Night shift duties

You tighten bolts, repair the rails under flickering signal lights and answer calls from the dispatcher. You raise the barriers for passing traffic, following instructions posted on the walls and using the mechanical control panels and an old computer in the tiny control room. As the hours pass, the barking from the forest grows louder and closer.

Beneath the railway

The control room is your only island of light, but the trains cannot be stopped and the connection breaks. Wells lead downward, as routine work gives way to a fight for survival. The game builds tension through loneliness, silence and the unknown.