| 📰 Title: | The Last Door | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Adventure & Action | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 🏷️ Category: | Adventure & Action ➤ Classical ➤ Horror | 🌍️ Browser version: | |
| 🔖 Tags: | Adventure; Horror; Lovecraftian; Atmospheric; Pixel Art; Story Rich | 📦️ Package Name: | |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2013-03-01 | 📦️ Arch package: | |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2017-05-23 | 📦️ RPM package: | |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: 20170523 | 📦️ Deb package: | |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 📦️ Flatpak package: | |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | 📦️ AppImage package: | |
| 🏝️ Perspective: | Side view | 📦️ Snap package: | |
| 👁️ Visual: | 2D | ⚙️ Generic binary: | |
| ⏱️ Pacing: | Point and Click | 📄️ Source: | |
| 👫️ Played: | Single | 📱️ PDA support: |  |
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| 🎀️ Game design: | 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 14755 | 🐛️ Created: | 2015-05-17 |
| 🐜️ Updated: | 2021-11-07 |
| [en]: | A unique point-and-click adventure game with stylish low-res graphics and a spine-chilling horror storyline. An indie game, which story unfolds episode by episode, as in an interactive web series, that has been played by more than two million players through different websites | [fr]: | Un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure et d'horreur en plusieurs épisodes avec des graphismes élégants en basse résolution et un scénario à glacer le sang de type Edgar Allan Poe / H. P. Lovecraft |
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💰 Commercial: [Online store] [Kickstarter (Funding Successful)] [Humble Store] [Steam]
🍩️ Resources
• (empty, license): [Homepage] [Dev site] 🎬️ g(202xxx)
🛠️ Technical informations
[PCGamingWiki] [MobyGames]
🦣️ Social
Devs (The Game Kitchen [fr] [en]): [Site 1 2] [Chat] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [LinkedIn] [PressKit] [Interview 1(202xxx) 2(202xxx)]
The Project: [Blog] [Forums] [mastodon] [Facebook] [PeerTube] [YouTube] [PressKit]
🐝️ Related
[Wikipedia (The Last Door) [fr] [en] [de]]
[Mod DB] [Indie DB]
📦️ Misc. repositories
[Repology] [pkgs.org] [Generic binary] [Arch Linux / AUR] [openSUSE] [Debian/Ubuntu] [Flatpak] [AppImage(author's repo)] [Snap] [PortableLinuxGames]
🕵️ Reviews
[metacritic] [OpenCritic] [iGDB]
📰 News / Source of this Entry (SotE) / News (SotN)
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Low-Res Horror. High Suspense.
Something ancient and evil is stirring in Victorian England.
Only you can stop it. Journey to the brink of madness and beyond as you set forth alone into the dark.
Feel what it's truly like to be alone in the dark with this point-and-click horror adventure.
His journey to an abandoned manor is only the beginning as he starts to remember a long-buried secret from his youth, discovering things man was not meant to know, and opening doors that should have remained closed...
What is The Last Door?
The Last Door is a unique point-and-click adventure game with stylish low-res graphics and a spine-chilling horror storyline. An indie game, which story unfolds episode by episode, as in an interactive web series, that has been played by more than two million players through different websites. It has been published in Steam and other major digital platforms, and awarded, among public and critics, by the Academy of Arts and Interactives Science of Spain in Gamelab 2013 and 2014, Armor Games, Kongregate and Indie Burguer Development Awards.
What’s the story of The Last Door about?
The Last Door has an original and intriguing story that will leave you hunger for more at the end of each episode. The pixel art style will show you only what’s necessary, triggering your imagination to bring the game’s world alive.
Season 1: Became involved in Jeremiah Devitt’ story to unveil the mystery that follows the distress call of Mr. Beechworth, an old friend from the boarding school. The mysterious message in the letter he receives, guides him to a manor, where he finds strange things have happened. All the memories he forgot with time, start to be recovered. From then on, the investigation will lead him to the truth about his past into a spiral of nightmares and darkness.
Season 2: Devitt’s psychiatrist and his friend, worried about his vanishing in weird circumstances, set them on a journey to know Devitt’s old friends and the truth about them.
Investigate, wander and be scared in The Last Door’s adventure. The outstanding soundtrack, by the award winner composer Carlos Viola completes the strange and frightening atmosphere. The Last Door brings the player back to the 90’s genre feeling and mixes it up with a touch of contemporary gameplay and the thrill of modern TV series.
When and where is it set?
The Last Door takes place on Great Britain in 1890’s. You will travel back in time to explore dark and cryptics secrets of the ghostly and gloomy surroundings. You will be able to investigate and uncover the mysteries of the story of Jeremiah Devitt and his friends through locations which vary from cities, woods, seas and strange locations all over the country.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
The Last Door is an episodic psychological horror point-and-click adventure game developed and published by The Game Kitchen for the Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux platforms. As of January 2016, eight episodes have been released. A collector's edition of the first season was released in May 2014 by Phoenix Online Publishing, featuring new content.
The plot revolves around four childhood friends, of which the player controls Jeremiah Devitt (and later his psychiatrist, Doctor Wakefield), who attempt to explore a supernatural territory/phenomenon known as the Veil. The story takes place long after the friends have separated, and Devitt is summoned by his old friend Anthony Beechworth's last words to investigate the mysterious supernatural forces that now threaten them all.
Development
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Gameplay
As a point-and-click adventure, the player controls the character, moves him through various locations, picks up and uses items to move the story forward, and solves puzzles. Red herrings are rare, with each item generally having a single use. Episodes start out with a number of locked areas, which can be unlocked by finding keys and using other items to expand the explorable world. In episodes 1, 2, and 3 of the Season 2 a larger, map based world was introduced, giving players the ability to open a map to travel to different regions or areas of the overall map, and then being able to explore the area selected on foot. This feature is absent in the final instalment of Season Two, "Beyond the Curtain."
In terms of interface, The Last Door is a fairly typical third-person point-and-click adventure. A smart cursor shows hotspots that can be looked at, picked up or interacted with. It also shows exits from the current screen; double-clicking one instantly moves you to the next. The inventory is shown at the bottom of the screen where you can combine items occasionally, and there is a magnifying glass that gives descriptions of each item you’ve acquired. There are lots of doors in the game, as the title suggests, and doors stay open to signify unlocked areas.
— Katie Smith, The Last Door Review, Adventure Gamers
Plot
Season 1
Jeremiah Devitt receives a mysterious letter from his old friend Anthony Beechworth and immediately rushes to his friend's aid, only to find out that the latter had committed suicide shortly after sending the letter. Anthony warns Devitt that a terrible supernatural force now plagues him and all of their friends, and Devitt must investigate at once before it's too late. Devitt returns to an old boarding school where he and Anthony originally met, and slowly remembers his days helping Anthony running a small secret organization that attempted to explore a supernatural territory known as the Veil in an effort to seek "truth". To do this, they had developed a special serum that would allow the user's mind to enter a higher state of consciousness, which from there they can cross the Veil. While investigating, Devitt gets attacked and buried alive, but is later rescued by local nuns. While recovering from the ordeal, he recalls another member of their organization, Alexander Du Pré, and promptly goes to him for answers. Alexandre reveals that he had been very invested in exploring the Veil even after they all went about their separate ways. Alexander then requests that Devitt joins him in crossing the Veil together. Devitt agrees, and then disappears.
Season 2
Doctor John Wakefield, Devitt's former psychiatrist and the player character for this season, is troubled by Devitt's sudden disappearance. He travels with his colleague, Herr Doctor Johann Kaufmann, an enigmatic German gentleman who assisted Wakefield in researching Devitt's condition, in an effort to find Devitt. Kaufmann appears to have a high degree of understanding of the dark forces that affect Devitt, but he keeps most of this knowledge to himself. Together they set out to find out what happened to Devitt. They reach a mental hospital in London, where they find out that Alexander Du Pré had been running a large organization known as The Playwright, whose sole purpose was to explore the Veil. They then venture to the home of Adam Wright, an expert on the occult. Here, Wright dies under mysterious circumstances and Kaufmann comes down with an illness and dies. Wakefield, stricken with grief by the death of his friend, resolves to continue his quest. He visits a sleepy fishing village on a secluded Irish island after learning about the island's mysterious past. Intrigued, he investigates the island's history further, eventually stumbling into a portal of sorts that leads to the Veil, the barren wasteland that separates our world from another, ancient world. Here, he encounters Devitt and learns that he, and not Anthony, was the true leader of the cult. However, he learns, Devitt was stricken with amnesia after an experiment gone wrong. Anthony only recently elected to bring him back to the group by setting him on his quest because he and Alexandre felt that they were close to crossing the Last Door. Wakefield finds out from Alexandre that Devitt has already crossed the Threshold to the other world and that he intends to use the "First Language" in order to harness the power of creation. However, he intends to destroy the work of the Playwright so that no one can ever open the Door again. The curtain that marks the threshold separating our world from the ancient one then slowly begins to close, and Alexandre implores Wakefield to choose to either stop Devitt, or let him go through with the plan.
Alternate Endings
From here, the game has at least two alternate endings. Wakefield can either travel through the curtain, or he can let the curtain close. Each triggers a unique ending to the game. If the player goes through the curtain, Wakefield sacrifices himself and takes Devitt's place. He stays behind to close The Last Door and is killed. Devitt then finds himself in a London street, where he returns home and burns evidence. If the player lets the curtain close, then Devitt is killed as he closes the Last Door. After closing it, Wakefield is transported to a London street and he finds his way home, before burning all remnants of his journey through the Veil. In both endings, the surviving characters makes a pact to "see that no one knows," reflecting the Playwright's motto, videte ne quis sciat. Additionally, both endings also feature those members of the Playwright who were in the Veil (including Alexandre) becoming trapped in the Veil, essentially rendering them nonexistent.
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Un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure et d'horreur avec des graphismes élégants en basse résolution, par le studio The Game Kitchen.
The Last Door est un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure et d'horreur avec des graphismes élégants en basse résolution et un scénario à glacer le sang de type Edgar Allan Poe / H. P. Lovecraft, dont l'action se déroule sur plusieurs épisodes subdivisés en saisons.
The Last Door est un pointer-et-cliquer d'aventure unique avec des graphismes élégants en basse résolution et un scénario d'horreur à glacer le sang. Un jeu indie, dont l'histoire se déroule épisode par épisode, comme dans une série web interactive, il a été joué par plus de deux millions de joueurs à travers différents sites.
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Le studio est parvenu à lever les fonds nécessaire sur le site Kickstarter, il est à présent disponible à la vente.
Kickstarter est un site de sponsoring de projets permettant - en ce qui concerne les jeux, aux joueurs et aux développeurs de financer le développement de jeux sans le carcan des maisons d'édition. Les studios obtiennent le pré-financement de leur production, les joueurs bénéficient d'avantages proportionnels au montant de leur participation (tarif avantageux, personnalisations, ...) sans garantie de résultat.
Date de sortie :
Financement bouclé mi Décembre 2012 (4.7K£ sur Kickstarter).
Sur Kickstarter nous pouvons lire "Estimated Delivery: Avr 2013".
Il est sorti le 20/05/2015 sur Steam dans sa version "Collector's Edition".