Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of Orpheo's Curse (1994)

Viacom New Media

DOS

3.22 from 9 ratings

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Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of Orpheo's Curse is an adventure game based on Nickelodeon's TV series Are You Afraid Of The Dark?. In telling its mystery tale, the game features full motion videos and 3D animation, as well as actors from the actual TV series.
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Developers
Viacom New Media
Genres
Adventure
Themes
Drama
Franchises
Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Release dates

  • 1994 (Worldwide) DOS
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Rating distribution

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Review scoopings 2/5 · Nov 5, 2025

Neat And Well-Made, But Too Sluggish For Me

Part of me really wants to give this an honorary 3 star because teh Look is excellent for 1994 and the cutscenes were very entertaining and silly, and I know I would have loved this as a kid and played it through and through. The puzzles are fun classic kid-oriented adventure game puzzles. However, it's so sluggish and it's at …

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Part of me really wants to give this an honorary 3 star because teh Look is excellent for 1994 and the cutscenes were very entertaining and silly, and I know I would have loved this as a kid and played it through and through. The puzzles are fun classic kid-oriented adventure game puzzles. However, it's so sluggish and it's at the era that these FMV-inspired/good-graphics games aren't "standing out." So as much as I want to give my beloved Nickelodeon the credit it deserves, without having played this as a kid or having intense love for the franchise, I think this'll come out to be a 2. But let's see

Look: 7.5/10 As much as I wanted to give this an 8, there also were elements taht were not so special for 1994

Sound: 7/10

Play: 6.5/10 Sluggish

Feel: 7/10

Attachment: 6.5/10 Just no way I'd replay it with how the conversations overly interrupt the gameplay. However, again, if I had played this as a kid, no question I would've pushed through and epxlored and learned the game.

Overall: 6.9/10

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