Both ‘The Tower’ and ‘The Crypt’ offer the most intense challenges of the game. The question of whether Darq wants to be a horror game with puzzles, or a puzzle game with a horror theme is answered in its additional chapters. The game’s various enemies all have that slight ‘box of broken toys’ look about them: lamps for heads, bags on heads, tubas for heads - there’s a lot of missing heads - all serving the twisted, mechanical and ominous dioramas that developer Unfold Games has set its game in. However, it quickly starts to feel a little wrote. All elongated limbs and cranial distention, the art style evokes a very familiar feeling one that’s likely to stand it in good stead initially. Muddling in the macabre and basking in all things Burton, each chapter of Darq is a living nightmare from which the main character, Lloyd, must escape. Now what if your only means of escape was to solve a series of puzzles? This is the situation that we’re faced with in Darq: Complete Edition. Perhaps you’re running down an endless hallway, being chased by a shadowy being, or simply unable to escape the clutches of the last videogame you reviewed poorly - that one might just be for me. We’ve all had a vivid nightmare that we could have sworn was real.

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