Get The Land of Crows for PC

The Land of Crows is a side-scrolling gothic story adventure set in 19th-century Partitioned Poland. Young Polish nobleman Jan Bonawentura Jablonowski travels to Kuyavia after receiving a dramatic letter from a friend. In a gloomy, rainy flatland filled with ravens and crows, he sets out to uncover the dreadful truth hidden in the watery grasslands.

Story and setting

The game draws on pre-romantic, romantic and gothic literature by E.A. Poe, J.W. Goethe, A. Mickiewicz and J. Slowacki, as well as Lovecraftian mythos. Its cultural backdrop combines the Regency and Romanticism eras with a distinct Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth influence. Regional early medieval Slavic legends of Kuyavia are woven into the story, alongside an ancient evil lurking in the marshlands.

You encounter gloomy characters with dark secrets and explore old haunted forests concealing ancient graves. The setting includes historical and ethnographic objects and buildings, such as palaces, mansions and churches in the Kuyavian and Greater Poland style.

Adventure gameplay

This classic-style adventure takes inspiration from the look, feel and controls of 1990s thriller adventures, particularly The Shadow of The Comet. It is a side-scroller rather than a point-and-click game, and includes a lot of walking. The story provides 3 to 4 hours of play and more than 7,000 lines of text.

Music and text

The music is composed by Simon Wilkinson and other composers. The game has no voice-over, following the style of classic 1990s adventure games.