
Haunted by mysterious curses from her orphanage days, Mary is finally forced to confront the truth behind her past. Step into the enchanted Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and every choice shapes her fate. An award-winning adventure blending mystery, emotion, and dark fantasy.
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How far would you go to save your only daughter from the clutches of death?
From the award-winning studio Tuttifrutti Interactive comes an untold saga of motherhood and true love. Darkarta: A Broken Heart’s Quest is a frantic, emotional journey set against the backdrop of the enchanted valleys and forgotten legends of the Indus civilization.
For Mary, her daughter Sophia is her entire world. Seeking to rediscover her long-lost family roots, Mary travels with her husband and daughter to a cluster of remote islands. Her life is shattered in an instant when a mysterious letter arrives, unearthing a dark past she never knew existed.
Now, broken and betrayed, Mary must enter the Netherworld—a realm where destiny is written in blood and danger lurks in every corner. Step into Mary’s shoes and navigate a perilous game of life and death to bring your daughter home.
A Legacy of Excellence: A former #1 Classic Hit on PC and Mac markets (Big Fish Games) and winner of over 10 International Awards, including honors from Game Connection America and Casual Connect Asia.
An Epic Journey: Explore a magnificent fictional world inspired by Indus fantasy, ancient mythologies, and the philosophy of reincarnation.
A Powerful Message: Beyond the mystery, this is a story about "star-crossed lovers" and a stand against racism, upholding the enduring power of humanity and motherhood.
Stunning Artistry: Immerse yourself in critically acclaimed, breathtaking visuals and highly detailed environments.

5-6 Hours of Gameplay: Experience a gripping main story with non-repetitive puzzles and unforeseen environments.
Prequel Comic Book: Dive deeper into the lore with a beautifully illustrated backstory.
Mom’s Diary: Follow Mary’s journey through her personal notes, character sketches, and an integrated strategy map.

Bonus Chapter: "Rising of the Phoenix": Extend your adventure and play in "GOD Mode" for a unique gameplay perspective.
Nostalgic Collectibles: Find 30 precious memory items scattered throughout your quest.
Hall of Fame: Earn 36 distinct medals and prove your mastery.
Morphing Objects: Hunt for 28 hidden morphing objects during or after your playthrough.
The Vault: Enjoy mesmerizing soundtracks, concept art, and high-quality wallpapers.
Ultimate Replayability: Re-experience your favorite Mini-Games, Hidden Object Scenes, and cinematic Cut-scenes at any time.

3,700 years have passed, but time cannot heal a broken heart. Will you answer the call?
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Russian, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
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Reviews
I forgot why I had stopped playing this one so many years ago, only to reinstall and in barely 20min remembered why... The game has serious issues with registering clicks, it constantly sends you out of puzzle and hop screens. Interactable zones are never clear, and the design is horridly obtuse. Oh it has all the features of a HOPA, like fast travel, collectible objects, a hackneyed cliche story of love, of course its the cloyingly sweet kind of save the innocent baby... (honestly this is not a fault of this game as the genre is rife with such saccharine stories) but it is made insufferable due to the poor mechanics.
Интересная казуальная игра со своей историей. Конечно анимации оставляют желать лучшего , особенно с лицами.. это лютый страх. Задний фон и проработка красивая. В целом на любителя .. +3\5. https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MadneZ1/curation - подписывайся на наше кураторство! Ведем постоянную работу! А еще - https://t.me/sage_mad - 24\7 блог контент .
This is not a game. It's a cheap Indian B-movie filled with nonsense and unnecessary drama. The plot is non-existent. The characters can be used as an illustration on Wikipedia for the article about the uncanny valley effect. And why — WHY?! — make a great deal of cinematics if you suck both in writing and art? No idea. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411947726 So, what the game is all about? A mother is trying to save her really ugly child which was kidnapped by some evil guy Darkarta who wants to use an innocent soul to bring his beloved (who sacrificed herself to grant him immortality) back from the dead. Although she's not dead. What? Yes. And while he can use any innocent soul, he waits for centuries to get this particular child because the protagonist is the reincarnation of the woman who betrayed him. He really needed to close that gestalt, I reckon. But once the child is kidnapped, the evil guy disappears. Instead, there's an evil woman trying to prevent your rescue mission. I guess she's mother of the evil guy but I am not sure as she looks completely different in cinematics. Also, she should be dead as a doornail as she committed suicide by falling from a cliff — again, centuries ago. Whatever. Anyways, she's a mage and can obviously zap you into oblivion but prefer to make stupid walls or destroy bridges on your way which can be surpassed within a minute because puzzles in the game are easy and not very challenging. Maybe she's just not a very competent villain but lets cut her some slack, she makes way more trouble than any regular dead woman. There are other characters, by the way. But since I have no idea who are they and what their purpose for the story, let's just say there are an old Hindu guy who disappears with your wounded husband, some kind of shaman dressed as a circus freak and a chained maid punished by her mistress, the ought-to-be-dead evil woman, for some role she played in the story which happened thousand years ago. And I wonder, o mighty Vishnu, how many more people were bestowed with immortality for no reason? More importantly, why? The gal is useless for the story and was needed just to give you a pendant which leads you to an awful but unique cinematic. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411949002 A unique cinematic? Yes, because most of cinematics are basically the same. It's either an ugly crying Chucky-like girl saying 'Mommy, where are you?' or the protagonist falling from every cliff she finds, stupidly wavering with her hands. And all of these happens to distract you from really uninspiring puzzles with unclear goals and abysmal connection between them. Not to mention that sometimes you just get a whole new useless location with another er... character? A f★cking tree which attacks you for no reason and then let you go for no reason. I am pretty sure this is some kind of Harry Potter game because they got their own Whomping Willow and some writings on the wall are made with HARRY POTTER FONT, damn it! Tell me about immersion. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3411938463 And the ending... You find the 'dead' girl, the one Darkarta wants to resurrect, in some kind of a fish tank. To learn that the girl is pretty much alive and can even speak. Then the evil b★tch shows up and almost throw the protagonist off another cliff but she is saved by Darkarta himself. And his 'dead' beloved casts a spell which destroys the witch. So, the child is saved with no help from the protagonist but the evil guy all of a sudden turns out to be a schizophrenic, changing his mind completely within seconds from 'I'm gonna kill the girl' to 'No, I can't do that'. Why the hell did you lure them back to India and kidnapped the child, damn it? Why helped the mother? He cries, 'How can I save my beloved now?' Save from what? She's not dead! But the protagonist be like: 'There's only way to stop the curse, I have to die. Yes, I am abandoning my child, also she should watch my death'. And then you get the luxury to see another cinematic of that stupid b★tch falling from the cliff. The evil guy's beloved SOMEHOW is freed by that act of stupidity, and they tell the little girl that her mother is not dead as there's a bonus chapter. Which I refuse to play because I had enough. Honestly, I love these kind of puzzle games, I really do. But this game fails both as a game and a technical product because there's no way you can take these stupid facial animations and scary moving faces on trees made with twisted PNGs serious. Thus, if you want a quality, go play Artifex Mundi's games. And if you crave some Indian vibes, 'Seeta and Geeta' is available on YouTube.
Darkarta is a very polished HOG with an Indian setting. Some of the puzzles are frustrating to solve but the actual HOG parts are great, with no odd names for items.
I love hidden object games and this is a really good one. The art is really lovely. Its fun to play. Thanks to the developer for making such a good game.
Обзор игры в жанре поиск предметов — это дело сложное и неблагодарное. Представители жанра, как правило, имеют номинальный сюжет и сводятся к поиску рисунка свиньи в шляпе где-то среди кучи стоковых фото на захваченном гигантскими пауками чердаке. Но Darkarta — это особый случай. Разберем ее по пунктам. 1) Игра скорее Point & Click c элементами поиска предметов. Игроку (почти) всегда ясно поставлены задачи, активные зоны отмечены и перестают быть активны после завершения на них всего необходимого. Даже бектрекинга с внезапно появляющимися на локации предметами нет. Для удобства даже карта с фаст тревелом есть, отмечающая есть ли на локации еще что-то, что можно сделать. Благодаря такому подходу темп игры практически не проседает и не скатывается в поиск непонятно чего и непонятно зачем. 2) Тем не менее, классический геймплей для жанра тоже присутствует на небольших экранах. Там уже нужно перебрать кучу хлама, чтобы игроку дали какой-нибудь гвоздь. Понимая спорность данного решения, разработчик предоставил не менее спорную альтернативу — три-в-ряд. Да, если не желания выискивать очередное нечто, можно просто подвигать цветные камешки. Спасибо, наверное. 3) Также игру призваны разнообразить различные головоломки, большую часть из которых действительно весело проходить. В меньшую часть, к сожалению, входит несколько (!) пятнашек, а так же парочка задачек, решаемых методом тыка, либо страдающих от сбивающей с толку постановки. Причем все они идут подряд, чтобы жизнь медом не казалась. Благо каждую головоломку можно пропустить. 4) В игре большой акцент на сюжете, но сам он чертовски странный. История о вызволении похищенной дочери быстро превращается в индусскую драму со всеми присутствующими ей поворотами. Написано все это дело смешно и даже увлекательно, но не складывается в цельный сюжет. Подробнее под спойлером: [spoiler]Принц попросил у короля соседнего клана руку его дочери, на что тот кинул ее умирать в ужасной тюрьме (потому что он расист, это каноничное объяснение), принц ее спас, но стал жертвой мести его кукнутой невесты (реинкарнацией которой главная героиня и является). Месть ее была страшна: сначала заставила его настоящую любовь бежать за волшебным кроликом (не спрашивайте, я без идей), чтобы, приняв ее облик, сломать защитный артефакт из слез его матери, дающий ему неуязвимость, чтобы его поймали и съели орлы. Вернувшаяся же после кролика девушка выкрала запретные заклинания бессмертия, использовала их на любимом, а сама стала получила проклятие вечного пламени. Из-за чего теперь принц стал адептом темных искусств, чтобы спасти любимую, а с отомстившей невестой случилось… А черт его знает, ее прокляла мать принца и именно поэтому в новой жизни она настрадалась. И именно поэтому душу ее дочери хотят использовать для воскрешения вечно горящей принцессы, пока этому способствует ее отец руками какой-то ведьмы (да, тот самый расист, который ее умирать оставил и который непонятно как жив на момент событий игры). А в конце оказывается, что наставник этих придурков достиг нирваны и может верхом на крылатом мамонте всех воскресить, но был слишком занят, столетиями воздвигая дворец, который по итогу в маразме бегает и ломает. Это реальный сюжет. Если хотите посмеяться — отличный вариант. [/spoiler] 5) Есть коллекционные предметы, раскрывающие отношения главной героини со своей дочерью, что отличное решение, помогающее углубить персонажа, который напрямую не присутствует в сюжете. А есть коллекционные предметы, которые просто статуи орлов, появления которых еще и дождаться нужно на экране. Они ничего не делают. 6) Присутствует несколько уровней сложности и система подсказок, чтобы любому игроку было комфортно, здорово. 7) Есть дневник, в который героиня записывает свои мысли, но по факту он выполняет эту функцию только в начале, становясь затем просто дословным пересказом произошедших событий. 8) В русской локализации хватает опечаток и комичных решений касательно перевода, но зная обычное качество перевода в жанре — приемлемо. Итог: Darkarta (или же Темнискус в русской локализации) — удивительно комфортная и дружелюбная игра, но столь же удивительно абсурдная. Соскучились по жанру? Отличный вариант! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3444402069
Not Recommended
Great adventure game with fun puzzles and very little classic HOG elements. The story begins with a family taking a boat trip. Suddenly, a storm hits, sending the woman and her husband to an island. Their daughter is nowhere to be discovered, but an elderly man on the beach claims this was the work of Darkarta. The goal is to move between areas, look for useful items, and use them in the appropriate places. Your mouse cursor changes to assist you. So there is a hand for picking things up, a magnifying glass for a closer look, and a cog that indicates the need to use an item. The game is similar to adventure games. Although there are still HOG scenes, they are far more enjoyable because they rarely need you to search for objects on a list. Typically, you must search for items that match an outline and use them in the same scene. A helpful map allows you to quickly navigate and see which scenes contain your current objectives. Items are kept in your inventory. To use an item, you simply click on it and then select the appropriate location. Everything makes sense so there are no unusual solutions. Sometimes an object can be examined more closely or joined with another; such items contain a plus sign. Close-up scenes have a helpful feature: once you have done everything you can with them, they can no longer be interacted with. Puzzles are an important aspect of these games, and there are many of them. What is remarkable is that it avoids jigsaw, color-matching, and memory problems, which have been overused in this genre. Each puzzle is unique, employing a variety of mechanics. Collectibles include morphing and memory objects. There is one on nearly every scene, sometimes even on close-up scene. The morphing object varies between two shapes, snake and eagle, making it easy to spot if you keep your eyes open, but the memory object may be more difficult to find. However, because there is no penalty for clicking across the scene, you can simply click until you discover it. Difficulty options allow everyone to play the game based on their skill and available time. You can choose easy, which highlights hotspots with sparkles and allows you to use tips faster, or hard, which removes the sparkles and requires you to sweep the screen for hotspots. There is also a custom setting that allows you to specify which features to enable. If you get stuck somewhere, there is a really handy guide with clear images that will show you exactly where to go or what to do. Achievements are enjoyable and will reward people who take the effort to play without hints and observe scenes. However, you might have to beat the game at least twice because some achievements don’t work together. For example, you need to watch all cutscenes and never skip, but this makes the speedrunning achievement impossible to obtain.
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