AMBER Journeys Beyond torrent

"AMBER: Journeys Beyond" is a classic-style graphic adventure game, very immersive and atmospheric, presenting a suspenseful horror/ghost story. It was released in 1996 by Hue Forest Entertainment.

The creators, Frank & Susan Wimmer, credit their inspiration for this game to a stay at a haunted hotel in Louisiana called Myrtle's Plantation, once featured on Ghost Hunters (although their stay and this game were before the TV show).


This torrent includes the XP/7 installer patch named "amber_install_"etc. As a point of reference, I have this running on a W7/64 machine with an ATI graphics card. UPDATE: now running on the same machine, installed on an external solid-state hard drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 video card. Sorry, I do NOT know how this patch will perform under W8/10.

AMBER: Astral Mobility By Electromagnetic Resonance
AMBER is a device invented by a promising scientist in the field of paranormal activities, Dr. Roxanne "Roxy" Westbridge.

As "AMBER: Journeys Beyond" opens, you receive an e-mail asking you to help out Roxy, an old friend and colleague. A renowned paranormal researcher, she has been developing technology that will allow her to communicate with the spirit world. Last you'd heard, Roxy had just purchased an old (reputedly haunted) house in the foothills of North Carolina. Apparently, she thought the house would be an ideal spot for her paranormal research.

Although the game does require the player to solve inventory-based puzzles, the emphasis is more on the exploration and presentation of the story. The key element of the gameplay is exploring environments in order to advance the plot by revealing crucial information as to to the reasons of ghosts' bonds to the world of the living. The different stories are experienced almost as dreams, each with a unique artistic style and feel.

Although little noticed when released and not a commercial success, coming from a small, independent publisher, it did earn much praise from critics and those who did play it. The main critiques leveled against it are that it was too short, and the ending perhaps anticlimactic. I bought this when it was on the clearance rack at Office Max! It was an instant favorite. I've played through it a few times since, and it has not failed to be engrossing and entertaining.

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