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PayPalThe original Alone in the Dark survival horror series has a fresh cross-platform game engine reimplementation, with lots of enhancements. Currently it has Alone in the Dark 1 fully completable with the others being worked on.
On the GitHub page the developer calls it a "faithful remaster of the original 1992 survival horror classic". It is a "from-scratch C++ reimplementation of the Infogrames engine, built with modern rendering (bgfx), audio (SoLoud), and input (SDL3) backends" available under the open source GPL license.
The project features HD backgrounds, post-processing, controller support, a proper fullscreen mode, in-game maps, interactive hints and various added modern extras.
See their video on it below:
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I really do love game engine reimplementations like this, as they allow classics to live on pretty much forever and get ported to platforms they were never intended to run on. This is real game preservation in action.
Check out all the info on GitHub.
You need the data files from the original game which you can buy on Steam and GOG.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Arehandoro a day ago
Quoting: RTherenI've sent it to a friend of mine who's a huge AitD fan.... he wasn't happy with the quality of this AI slop, at all.Huh, is that what it is? You mean code, or graphics, or both? I don't care about the gfx (would prefer to keep the classic one), but some UX improvements sound welcome.
Last edited by pb on 20 Apr 2026 at 1:33 pm UTC
Caldathras a day ago
Quoting: RTherenI've sent it to a friend of mine who's a huge AitD fan.... he wasn't happy with the quality of this AI slop, at all.
Quoting: dpanterIt is quite AI sloppy indeed. With properly remade assets, it would be pretty sweet.
Source? Link to confirm use of "AI"?
Source? Link to confirm use of "AI"?If you pay attention to the video you can defiantly see the static lighting in a room's background change by the camera angle
Even if they didn't, I wouldn't put it below Spacefarer to use AI in their remasters. They once took someone's demo off of Itch "Zera: Myths Awaken" reskinned and sold it on the Nintendo E-shop as "Lotzo and Ray of Light" as a full game in broken form.
[Gamesradar article](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/platformer/dev-accused-of-stealing-spyro-the-dragon-inspired-platformer-recoloring-it-and-selling-it-on-the-nintendo-eshop-for-usd15-with-ai-generated-art-wonder-if-theyd-give-me-a-free-key/)
[Rerez's (E-slop) video, skipped to relevant portion.]((https://youtu.be/8nRo9nxq1TI?t=1547))
Last edited by Prometheus on 21 Apr 2026 at 7:19 am UTC
strangeralps 3 hours ago
The redone visuals are, in my opinion, horrendous. Mind you I only spent 10 minutes or so with it. My gut reaction is to sidestep this one altogether.
It sucks as I'm so fond of the original game.😭
Quoting: CaldathrasSource? Link to confirm use of "AI"?.
Watch the video linked in the article, check out the doors, the "piano", the... everything.
Also what the others said already.
Caldathras 1 hour ago
Quoting: BielBdeLunaaccording to the code in Github this is a implementation of the old Free in the dark engine (FITD) with a coat of AI upscaled and AI generated images on topI didn't see anything on the main page. I didn't think to look in the code itself. Thanks for digging up the details.
Quoting: dpanterI don't watch videos on my cellphone, unfortunately. Been so long since I looked at the game, I'm not sure I'd recognize what was original or not. It seems like it's mostly graphics then? Given what @Prometheus wrote about the dev's ethics, it still seems like something to avoid ...Quoting: CaldathrasSource? Link to confirm use of "AI"?.
Watch the video linked in the article, check out the doors, the "piano", the... everything.
Also what the others said already.
Thanks, all.
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