About Dark Seed
Dark Seed is a 1992 horror adventure by Mike Dawson, published by Cyberdreams, with surreal artwork by H.R. Giger. You play Mike Dawson, who moves into a mansion and finds an alien embryo growing in his head, with a few days to find a way into a dark parallel world. It has mature, disturbing themes.
This page runs the original DOS CD files unmodified using ScummVM in your browser. Cyberdreams closed in 1997 and its rightsholder is unconfirmed, so the game is hosted under this site's removal policy and taken down on request.
Controls
- Click: walk & use
- Enter: start at the title
- Save / Menu: save, load, options
- Esc: skip a scene
Keyboard and mouse work best. On-screen buttons appear for the keys the game needs on a touch screen.
Questions
Is Dark Seed really free?
It is free to play here, with no account and no payment.
Do I need to download or install Dark Seed?
No. It runs in your browser from one click on the Play button.
What are the Dark Seed controls?
Point and click: click to walk and use things. Press Enter at the title to start, Esc skips a scene, and Save / Menu saves and loads.
Is Dark Seed suitable for children?
No. It is a horror game with disturbing imagery.
Credits and licence
Original game: Dark Seed, 1992, by Mike Dawson (Cyberdreams), with artwork by H.R. Giger. Published by Cyberdreams.
Edition hosted: DOS CD edition, version 1.51 (English).
Licence: Retro Hideout hosting notice (no licence exists on file). No freeware release or licence text has been found and the current rightsholder is unconfirmed. Hosted here unmodified and free under Retro Hideout's availability-and-owner-removal policy, and removed on any rightsholder's request.
The game files are unmodified copies of the original release, hosted under this site's removal policy: the rightsholder keeps all rights and can ask for the game to be removed. Run by ScummVM.
(c) 1992 Cyberdreams, Inc.; artwork (c) H.R. Giger. Attribution and rights information ↗ · Ask for a change or removal ↗
