Alone in the Dark Remastered (Unofficial) AKA Project TATOU
Q. What is this?
A. This is Tatou Team's official answer to a remaster never being developed for the original 1992 classic, 'ALONE IN THE DARK'. A modern remake was released this year but it's not the remake or remaster that fans including ourselves wanted, just another typical over the shoulder shooter with none of the original designs of the original game, mansion, sound effects and pretty much nothing that made Alone in The Dark the masterpiece it really was.
This is a faithful, nearly 1:1 remake of the original game, with remastered soundtrack, completely new graphics and redesign but keeping as faithful as possible to the original game. A walkthrough for the original game will pretty much be able to get you through the game from start to finish in the same way as before.
Q. Why?
A. Because we could and we wanted to. Simple answer!
Q. What's the differences between this and the original?
A. This is a near 1:1 remake in terms of game loop, but graphics and some game mechanics have been completely revamped. It plays in pretty much the same way as the original.
Q. What is Tatou?
A. Tatou is the French name for Armadillo, which was Infogrames' original logo back in the day (add a rat tail!) before the terrible Atari takeover. We adopted Tatou as our dev team's logo and name, and also the original Alone in The Dark's executable in DOS was Tatou.com.
Q. What's the legal status of this?
A. We don't charge anything for downloading and playing this, and aside from a modified Edward and Emily model from the 2024 remake, and the soundtrack and sound files, we haven't used any other original assets of the game. We've remade everything from the ground up. This is a passion project giving fans what they always wanted, gratis and without warranty. Your use of this download and playing the game is down to your own enjoyment and love for the game. We don't benefit in any way from this, other than the fact that we can say we did it first before anyone else. We are hoping this gets the IP owner of AITD's attention or even Bruno Bonnell or Frédérick Raynal himself and release this as a bundle with the new game.
Q. How much did it cost?
A. We had to purchase the new game, the original (in fact we have the original floppies), a Unity Pro license, and assets. It cost us some money for sure.
Q. Was any AI used to produce this?
A. Yes, we used Meshy to recreate the Infogrames logo in 3D, an Oil Can and AI to upscale the Game Over screen and Book Background images. That's it. Everything else was done the good old fashion way. With lots of time and by hand.
System Requirements
The game requires a modest PC, with at least 8GB of RAM, a Quad Core or Octo-Core processor running at 2.4GHz or higher, with a 64bit Windows 10 / Windows 11 operating system and at least a modern AMD Radeon or NVIDIA graphics card that can handle rendering the mansion. You can change and control quality settings and resolution from the Settings menu to optimize it for your system. By default, the game will run at 720p in fullscreen mode, but you can fully change this if you wish. NOTE: The game still has some optimisation work to be done and may lag in some areas. During our testing, we didn't experience any crashes or glitches.
