Penumbra: Overture

2007 Frictional Games

Penumbra: Overture

2007 Frictional Games

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About Penumbra: Overture

Penumbra: Overture is an action and adventure game developed by Frictional Games and published by Paradox Interactive, released on 30 March 2007.

Penumbra:Overture is a first person survival horror game, emphasizing on survival and problem solving instead of mindless violence and gore. Played from a first person perspective and powered by a 3D engine utilising cutting edge technology, Penumbra is a substantial advancement of the genre.

Set in the year 2001, Penumbra: Overture follows the story of Philip, a thirty-year-old physicist whose mother has recently died. After receiving a mysterious letter from his supposedly dead father, Philip follows a series of clues that lead him to a mysterious location in uninhabited northern Greenland.

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