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Despair

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.

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May 12, 2015
11 years and 84 days ago
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Mostly Negative1,825 reviews34.4%

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«Despair» - indie-horror video game.

The main character wakes up in a tunnel of the subway and tries to find out that happened to it and other passengers of the train. To understand that after all it happened to the gone passengers, the player should investigate strange catacombs being deeply underground.
At himself the player has only a small lamp batteries to which very quickly come to an end.
As the player has to collect notes left other people to understand that happened.

Purpose:
Wandering about subway tunnels the player has to find all notes the subway scattered in frightening catacombs and try that after all it happened to passengers and to him...
And can be anybody the answer and isn't present...