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Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition
Surrounded by enemies and assaulted by terror from all sides, Philip must collect clues and solve vexing puzzles while combating the gnawing psychological terrors that assail his mind and threaten to strip him of his sanity.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“Excellent game. As I said, first game was not as good as this one. First game was more of a demo (in my opinion) but this is the real deal. Very good!”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“note: since all three penumbra games are now part of the penumbra collection i will leave the same summary on all of them. i first got my hands on the penumbra games in late 2012. (actually i still found the old savegames on my current rig.) they are gripping survival horror…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“After finishing this masterpiece i realized i spent all day just running around solving puzzles, eventually finishing it, wow what a game, overture was amazing too but this left me with.....appreciation”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Horror · Adventure · First-Person · Psychological Horror · Stealth · Atmospheric · Story Rich · Singleplayer · Indie · Survival Horror · Puzzle · Lovecraftian (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Captions available · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://www.penumbragame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 2000/XP Processor: 1Ghz Memory: 256MB Graphics: Radeon 8500/GeForce 3 (GeForce4MX not supported)