What a huge disappointment of a game. Especially after black plague. Who came up with making a penumbra puzzle game with no actual story or horror? Pure junk.
3 found this helpful, 2026-02-15
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Frictional Games / Adventure, Indie

Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.
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52% positive, 585 reviews
What a huge disappointment of a game. Especially after black plague. Who came up with making a penumbra puzzle game with no actual story or horror? Pure junk.
3 found this helpful, 2026-02-15
Penumbra: Requiem Shameless Puzzle-Focused Expansion Definitely not worth trying Penumbra: Requiem was the last official installment in the series and the one that deviates the most from the original formula established by the previous games. It completely abandons the survival horror elements, resource management becomes almost entirely irrelevant, and the game is reduced to solving physics-based puzzles, many of...
2 found this helpful, 2026-07-17
I recommend avoiding other reviews, as they often contain spoilers. Overall, the three games are "alright", which for me means around 4/10. The gameplay can be summarized as a mix of story, puzzles, investigation, exploration, horror, and atmosphere. The trilogy almost feels like its own genre, more like a series of prototypes than fully refined games. Buy them to support Frictional Games; otherwise, you can safely...
2 found this helpful, 2025-12-29
note: since all three penumbra games are now part of the penumbra collection i will leave the same summary on all of them. i first got my hands on the penumbra games in late 2012. (actually i still found the old savegames on my current rig.) they are gripping survival horror games with dense atmosphere and a weird but interesting story. back then it was THE scariest game young me with full hair had ever...
3 found this helpful, 2026-06-24