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I have been thinking about that and the closer in term of comparison would be Dark Messiah (the playstation game from Atlus). It could also be like King's Field or Shadow Tower, but penumbra isn't your typical Dungeon Crawler.

I'd think the game most similar to Penumbra would be Lands Of Lore 2 - Guardians Of Destiny.
In this, the way of manipulating your environment was very similar, and even the atmosphere was close.

Except the physics part,i think call of cthulhu.
mysterios,scary and adnventures

Lawfer Wrote:I have been thinking about that and the closer in term of comparison would be Dark Messiah (the playstation game from Atlus). It could also be like King's Field or Shadow Tower, but penumbra isn't your typical Dungeon Crawler.

Dark Messiah of M&M? Don't know how about consoles but it's a PC game from Arcane Studios.

The closest are in my opinion:

ArxFatalis (lowest levels) (also from Arcane Studios) - similar atmosphere, similar puzzles, traps, dungeons, notes, it even includes giant worm and escape sequence from one horrible horrible thing
Call of Cthulhu
System Shock 2
Thief
Silent Hill

System Shock 2 is one I'm reminded of. Similar enemy style (for the beginning enemies), similar enviroment, and Red has a fair bit in common with Xerxes and Shodan.

Definitely Call Of Cthulhu. Penumbra is a great game but Call Of Cthulhu Darkest Corners Of The World must be the best horror game ever made. It's amazing. Must be played!

it's hard to compare anything to Penumbra. as far as ingenuity goes i think Alone in the Dark 1 matches it.

Penumbra is one of a kind

Just found the post to say: No, not Dark Messiah of M&M, the first guy was talking about the game called in Japan Dark Messiah and Hellnight in EU (it didn't get the NA), recently finally had a chance to play it (heard about it ever since it got released in 99) and the feeling is in fact close to the one you have, while playing Overture (the "ther's nothing behind the corner, there's nothing behind the corner" one)

except for the guns and them, call of cthulhu has very similar movements, controls and pickup options to penumbra

Portal is a bit like penumbra, as in you use the enviroment and have the little controller to pick things up.