Status solarplums Aug 7, 2024
story: 1/5 gameplay 2/5 dialogue 2/5 graphics 2/5 atmospheric/immersive: no surpassed expectations: no
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan (2019)
Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · PlayStation 5 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S
2.99 from 806 ratings
2552 members have it in their collection · 32 playing now · 1026 backlogged · 264 wish listed
How long? Main story 4h · with extras 6h (from 36 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Supermassive Games
- Publishers
- Bandai Namco Entertainment
- Genres
- Adventure
- Themes
- Horror, Mystery, Survival
- Series
- The Dark Pictures Anthology, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Season One
- Event
- gamescom 2018: Opening Ceremony
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Aug 29, 2019 (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Aug 30, 2019 (Worldwide) PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Sep 28, 2022 (Worldwide) PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
- May 04, 2023 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
Related
Bundled in
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Volume 1 - Limited Edition (Oct 2020) · PS4
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope & Man of Medan Bundle (Oct 2020) · XONE
- The Dark Pictures Anthology Triple Pack (Oct 2021) · PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
- The Dark Pictures Anthology: Season One (Nov 2022) · PC, PS4, PS5, XONE, XSX
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Rating distribution
5 stars
56
4 stars
152
3 stars
368
2 stars
186
1 star
43
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status MyChaos Jan 14, 2020
It's a short game, but with an interesting storyline, with many jumpscars along the way and many choices to make in each action has a consequence, which makes you want to play again to see a different path after completing the game for the first time. My only downside to this game is the speed with which the buttons appear …
Read moreIt's a short game, but with an interesting storyline, with many jumpscars along the way and many choices to make in each action has a consequence, which makes you want to play again to see a different path after completing the game for the first time. My only downside to this game is the speed with which the buttons appear and the amount of time left to the player to perform the action.
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Status BMO Sep 6, 2019
The last time I put together an Extra Life group, our pillar game was Until Dawn. We played a host of party and co-op games leading to that, but then we played Until Dawn, well, until dawn.
Needless to say, it was fun. And in addition to all the titles people are recommending to me in the forums, we are …
The last time I put together an Extra Life group, our pillar game was Until Dawn. We played a host of party and co-op games leading to that, but then we played Until Dawn, well, until dawn.
Needless to say, it was fun. And in addition to all the titles people are recommending to me in the forums, we are looking for another game that gives us a similar experience. What was fun about Until Dawn was the sometimes absurd acting and story lines, the general mayhem of that type of horror and the fact that we could make decisions together.
Our first candidate obviously needs to be Man of Medan, especially now that Supermassive allows each player to contribute to the decision process directly. If it has the same mix of horror, camp and absurdity as Until Dawn, we will thoroughly enjoy ourselves.
Another candidate is Detroit Become Human. It probably won't contain quite as much intentional humour as Until Dawn, but it might be fun to collectively take the piss out of the writing and absurd choices that David Cage believes makes for quality storytelling.
I am open to other suggestions if anyone has any, but it might come down to campy ghost ship horror that allows for collective decision making versus a bad game masquerading as high art that we can enjoy tearing into, while also collectively making decisions. The latter might be hilarious if we intentionally make all the worst possible divisions. Well, to be fair, that probably applies to both.
P.S. we will definitely be playing at least one so bad it's good games in the form of Night Trap ;-) It takes about an hour to play so we will probably play that as a lead in to one of the games above.
Status Hades Aug 31, 2019
So I'm about 3 hours into Man of Medan on PC. Just want to warn everyone that the keyboard controls kind of suck. So if you can play with a controller do so. Also, I had a really hard to getting into the game due to some kind of problem with Windows Defender. I went into my settings and everything …
Read moreSo I'm about 3 hours into Man of Medan on PC. Just want to warn everyone that the keyboard controls kind of suck. So if you can play with a controller do so. Also, I had a really hard to getting into the game due to some kind of problem with Windows Defender. I went into my settings and everything seemed fine. The game finally booted up and played with no issue after around 3 tries. Still don't know what was REALLY wrong... Finally, I've experienced a few audio desync issues I'm guessing due to some assets streaming. But they did fix themselves. So I'm guessing the game is best played on an SSD if you are going to play it in 4K as I was. Also, there was a little texture pop in during some cinematics, which was annoying but that also fixed itself. All of this happened after the first 1 and a half or so. So it doesn't happen right off the bat. There are some strange "jump cut" style scene transitions that I wasn't a fan of. I'm guessing these had something to do with dialogue or quicktime event choices. Don't know, but they are jarring. I've enjoyed most of my time with the game, I just wish some of the animations were better. ALOT of characters look and act like robots ALOT of the time. Also, some of the texture models, especially on faces seem a little poor. I'm not sure what native resolution they intended people to play on, but I'm guessing it wasn't 4K.
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Status Please...callmeYork Aug 29, 2019
I am going to buy this and Control today. I will convince my wife to play it with me. She will reluctantly agree, but then enjoy it immensely for about an hour. She'll never want to play it again, so it will sit on my shelf for 6 months until I have forgotten enough about it to want to do …
Read moreI am going to buy this and Control today. I will convince my wife to play it with me. She will reluctantly agree, but then enjoy it immensely for about an hour. She'll never want to play it again, so it will sit on my shelf for 6 months until I have forgotten enough about it to want to do a solo run. I know all this, yet I will buy it anyway because sharing that first hour will be a lot of fun. This is generally my co-op experience. I would really like to finish Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light one day.
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