The Dark Inside Me

The Dark Inside Me is a psychological horror adventure in which you wake handcuffed to a hospital bed, with little memory of what happened. Detectives nearby wonder how you survived the terrifying event and say they would have preferred to find you dead. To understand your past, you must first escape the hospital and face what you have done.

A branching story

The game’s scenario changes according to your decisions, how you respond to situations and how you solve puzzles. Some puzzles have several solutions, leading to different paths and changing later events. Critical choices can affect the following stages, and people you spare may return later to help you or make things harder.

The story follows four episodes in Chapter 1: Broken Lines of a Killer, Auschwitz Death Camp, Hidden Lies and Her Twisted Pleasure. The next chapter begins where Chapter 1 ends. You play as more than one main character during the game.

Choices and puzzles

You can solve puzzles peacefully or brutally, and choose whether to be good or bad. For example, after discovering who murdered your wife and knocking him down, you decide whether to forgive him, kill him or torture him. When someone blocks your way, you might find a tool to kill them or choose another way past. Later, you face the consequences of your decisions about vengeance, including whether to forgive, torture, kill or let people go.

You find tools and items, use them on other objects and combine them to create new items for solving puzzles. The choices and sacrifices you make shape the course of the story, which explores the boundary between madness and reality, darkness and light, love and hate, forgiveness and vengeance.

Environments and presentation

The game uses detailed rendered 2D graphics, parallax and panning camera effects, and 3D playable characters. Some areas and scenes use multiple camera angles, and cinematic soundtracks respond to the mood of each scene. Environments include houses, streets, shops, buildings, forests, buses and ships.