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Posted January 25, 2023
Get ready for 2 amazing classics from Piko Interactive: Dark Rift and The Humans: Meet the Ancestors! You can get both titles with a -15% launch discount; the offer lasts until February 1, 2 PM UTC.

Dark Rift, first released in 1997, is a 3D fighting game. As a player, you get to choose from 8 playable characters, with two hidden characters who can only be unlocked after completing the single-player mode. You get to fight for a default three-out-of five rounds, in one of the three dimensions of the far future.

The Humans: Meet the Ancestors on the other hand, is a puzzle game first released in 2009. Your quest is to help prehistoric humans evolve, through finding tools such as spears, clubs, rocks, and other items. The game contains 8 worlds with 10 levels each; every level offers three goals and a time limit – if you complete those, you’ll receive the reward of a golden medal.

Take a dive into some retro gaming, now on GOG!
Posted January 25, 2023
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GOG.com: Release:: Dark Rift and The Humans: Meet the Ancestors from Piko Interactive!
Never played any of these.
Only know them by name.
Posted January 25, 2023
Incredible Dark Rift. I played it if my memory serves me right on Nintendo 64 and Arcade (I think it came out for the arcades, although I don't remember if I'm right). To the wishlist.
Posted January 25, 2023
Very glad to see Dark Rift here. And it's always great to see another Humans game. I didn't know that they made another sequel in the 2000s.
Posted January 25, 2023
dark rift looks like the child of fx fighter and primal rage (mostly because of the backgronds). not my kinda thing but I'd buy fx fighter for nostalgic reasons.
Posted January 25, 2023
I remember Dark Rift from magazines, never tried it, never was a great fan of fighting games.

The humans series in the other hand I own the old ones. Attractive pseudoplatform puzzle games I didn't like much. Basically because the interesting concept is ruined by the timed puzzle solving. All of them are based in that principle, the new one is not different.

It always end up in too load and reloading the same screen fighting against a not too generous time limit. And for me it was too tedious after a few screens.

It is a shame because I always saw those titles like a mix between lost vikings and a bit of lemmings.
Post edited January 25, 2023 by Gudadantza
Posted January 25, 2023
Neat, will most likely buy Dark Rift, too bad Cardinal Syn by the same team was a PS1 only title.
Posted January 25, 2023
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NuffCatnip: Neat, will most likely buy Dark Rift, too bad Cardinal Syn by the same team was a PS1 only title.
Well, Cardinal Syn seems to me to be a better game than Criticom by the developer Kronos. But Dark Rift seems to me better than the two previous games. Maybe it's just nostalgia on my part. But I would like to play other fighting games like, for example: Mace - The Dark Age, Bio F.R.E.A.K.S., Dead or Alive, War Gods, Killer Instinct, among others. It was a great time. And that's an understatement for the 1995-2000 fighting game catalogue. Not to forget Meat Puppet is in the GOG catalogue, which is a quirky game that mixes action with puzzles and platforming also from Kronos.
Posted January 25, 2023
Why doesn't GOG ever release old games anymore! It's called Good Old Games and all they release are these new AAA games! Everyone only comes here for old games!!!11!1 Oh, hi Mark.
Posted January 25, 2023
Never heard of Dark Rift but looks interesting. Will probably get it once the discount gets higher.
Posted January 25, 2023
I'd hardly call the spiritual successor to Criticom an 'amazing classic'.
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UCrest: Well, Cardinal Syn seems to me to be a better game than Criticom by the developer Kronos. But Dark Rift seems to me better than the two previous games.
Well it'd be quite a feat to make a fighting game worse than Criticom.

Dark rift is definitely better, but it's still extremely stiff, shallow and mediocre. Nice soundtrack though.
Post edited January 25, 2023 by ReynardFox
Posted January 25, 2023
Now we just need Criticom and Cardinal Syn for the whole series. :P :P :P
Posted January 26, 2023
I could've sworn that Dark Rift was already here, and was an RTS, but from what I can tell, I must've confused it with Dark Reign.
Posted January 26, 2023
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HunchBluntley: I could've sworn that Dark Rift was already here, and was an RTS, but from what I can tell, I must've confused it with Dark Reign.
I did exactly the same thing. I wondered if it had been removed from the catalog and brought back, but I definitely mixed it up with Dark Reign.
Posted January 26, 2023
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HunchBluntley: I must've confused it with Dark Reign.
Why would you confuse a great and groundbreaking (for its time) RTS with a mediocre fighting game? A rift is not a reign, any king will tell you that!
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