Undying Dusk

Undying Dusk is a video game in a PDF format, with a gameplay based on exploration and logic puzzles, in the tradition of dungeon crawlers.

A curse set by the Empress keeps the world in an eternal dusk. You are have recently found shelter in an eerie monastery.

Featuring:

• ~ 200 000 PDF pages
• retro aesthetics: 160x120 resolution & a 16 colors palette
• grid-based world with 50+ distinct tiles & 10 maps to explore
• more than 30 treasure items, weapons & spells to pick up in order to face 15 enemy monsters
• 20 music tracks
• thousands of "Game Over" pages, and a single path to victory
• 4 hidden secrets & a concealed epilogue
• an online hall of fame

It was made in 2020-2021 by Lucas Cimon.

To my knowledge, this is the very first video game in a PDF format.

Note that it cannot be played using Adobe Acrobat Reader, due to technical limitations of this software.

I recommend that you use instead Sumatra PDF reader. If you do not wish to install it on your computer, you can use it only to launch Undying Dusk by downloading the undying-dusk-with-sumatra-windows.zip archive. Once the ZIP content is extracted in a folder, simply double-click on the LAUNCH_UNDYING_DUSK_IN_SUMATRA.bat file to start the game.

You will find more informations, including a detailed comparison of PDF readers compatibility with the game, on GitHub.