The Warden
“The Warden” is a first-person psychological-horror game with puzzles.Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who , after losing his family , lives his life in a alcoholic loneliness.His life is interspersed with moments of lucidity and states of trance that seem to leave, as only trace, mysterious drawings of dark landscapes in which stands...
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March 18, 2016
10 years and 139 days ago
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Mixed18 reviews55.6%
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“The Warden” is a first-person psychological-horror game with puzzles .
Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who , after losing his family , lives his life in a alcoholic loneliness .
His life is interspersed with moments of lucidity and states of trance that seem to leave, as only trace, mysterious drawings of dark landscapes in which stands a big figure with deers horns…
"Was always the same picture... a landscape with a river and a forest. The only difference was that the black figure seemed to be getting closer.
Each time it was as if it had been drawed closer. Its outlines became lighter, and I glimpsed some horns, that I thought looked like deer's horns, on its head...
From then on my memories fade and my mind starts to waver."
Black Mist Studios Developer Team.
Ephram Elias Barkley is a landowner who , after losing his family , lives his life in a alcoholic loneliness .
His life is interspersed with moments of lucidity and states of trance that seem to leave, as only trace, mysterious drawings of dark landscapes in which stands a big figure with deers horns…
"Was always the same picture... a landscape with a river and a forest. The only difference was that the black figure seemed to be getting closer.
Each time it was as if it had been drawed closer. Its outlines became lighter, and I glimpsed some horns, that I thought looked like deer's horns, on its head...
From then on my memories fade and my mind starts to waver."
Black Mist Studios Developer Team.
