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* ScaryScorpions: There's one in the witch's house in ''Tomb''.

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* ScaryScorpions: There's one in the young swamp witch's house in ''Tomb''.
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* TheWallsHaveEyes: A creepy box with an eye on each side appears in ''Spirit's Eye'', as does a weird trinket of finger-bones surrounding an animated eye. In ''Tomb'', there's a ring with a living eye in the middle.
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* [[spoiler: TheManBehindTheMan: Madame Ze set Marcos up to find the Eye of Acareous and unleash the curse, then tricks you into retrieving it so she can claim control over the Guardians.]]
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* ProphetEyes: Tia's eyes are pure white.

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* ProphetEyes: Tia's eyes are pure white. Madame Ze's are white in ''Spirit's Eye''; in ''Tomb'', the improving graphics show that hers have pale blue sclera around white irises.
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* DemBones: The Guardians in ''Spirit's Eye''.

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* DemBones: The Guardians in ''Spirit's Eye''.Eye'' and ''Tomb''.

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Early games are traditional ''Myst''-style point-and-click, while ''Society of the Serpent Moon'' employs a 3-D avatar protagonist. In a throwback to the early days of PC gaming, ''Last Half of Darkness'' [=DVD=]-packs incorporate printed supplements that are necessary to decode in-game clues.

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Early Most games in the series are traditional ''Myst''-style point-and-click, while whereas the original 1991 version is a picture-enhanced text-based scenario, and ''Society of the Serpent Moon'' employs a 3-D avatar protagonist. In a throwback to the early days of PC gaming, ''Last Half of Darkness'' [=DVD=]-packs incorporate printed supplements that are necessary to decode in-game clues.


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* InteractiveFiction: The 1991 original is a hybrid of text-based and point-and-click, with a menu to select commands.
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* SchmuckBait: ''"Come closer..."''
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* MagicAntidote: You whip one up to treat yourself for snakebite in ''Tomb''.
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* ScaryScorpions: There's one in the witch's house in ''Tomb''.
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* RavensAndCrows: Several, including one that steals the Eye from the old witch in ''Zojir''.

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* RavensAndCrows: Several, including one that steals the Eye from the old witch in ''Zojir''.''Tomb''.
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* SwallowTheKey: In ''Servants'', the doctor swallowed the key to a strongbox before she died. [[spoiler: You can't open the box containing the ashes from her cremation, but can put it in the fireplace so everything ''except'' the key will be destroyed.]]
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* RavensAndCrows: Several, including one that steals the Eye from the old witch in ''Zojir''.
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* RaisingTheSteaks: A skeletal fish snaps at you from the fountain in ''Spirit's Eye''.
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* TheBigEasy: ''Servants'' is set in a mansion at the edge of "Black World"-infested New Orleans.

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* TheBigEasy: ''Servants'' is set in a mansion at the edge of a creepy "Black World"-infested New Orleans.
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* TheBigEasy: ''Servants'' is set in a mansion at the edge of "Black World"-infested New Orleans.
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* StolenGoodReturnedBetter: In ''Servants'', a dark creature snatches the seemingly-useless voodoo doll from your inventory. The doll turns up later in another room, and [[spoiler: you can now remove its head to extract a key from inside]].
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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: A finger severed from one of Markus's victims.

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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: A finger severed from one of Markus's Marcos's victims.



* LooksLikeOrlok: Markus from ''Spirit's Eye''

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* LooksLikeOrlok: Markus Marcos from ''Spirit's Eye''
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* [=MacGuffin=]: The Eye of Acareous

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* [=MacGuffin=]: MacGuffin: The Eye of Acareous
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* [=MacGuffin=]: The Eye of Acareous
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* RollercoasterMine: Averted; the mine cart ride in ''Spirit's Eye'' isn't particularly fast, although it ''is'' creepy.
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* SpidersAreScary
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* FortuneTeller: Two gypsy mystics provide clues in ''Tomb'', and an ''automaton'' fortune-teller in a coin-operated booth does so in ''Servants''.

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* FortuneTeller: Two gypsy mystics provide clues in ''Tomb'', and an ''automaton'' fortune-teller in a coin-operated booth does so in ''Servants''.''Servants'' and ''Spirit's Eye''.
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* DemBones: The Guardians in ''Spirit's Eye''.


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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Guardians and the old witch.


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* ProphetEyes: Tia's eyes are pure white.
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* GhostTown: The town from ''Spirit's Eye'' is almost totally deserted, for good reason.

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* GhostTown: The Shadowcrest, the town from ''Spirit's Eye'' Eye'', is almost totally deserted, for good reason.
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: The [=DVD=] editions use in-case supplemental documents as part of the scenario, and the later games even use markings on ''the CD itself'' as one of their clues.

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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: The [=DVD=] editions use in-case supplemental documents as part of the scenario, and the later games even use markings on ''the CD disk itself'' as one of their clues.
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* FortuneTeller: Two gypsy mystics provide clues in ''Tomb'', and an ''automaton'' fortune-teller in a coin-operated booth does so in ''Servants''.
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* GhostTown: The town from ''Spirit's Eye'' is almost totally deserted.

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* GhostTown: The town from ''Spirit's Eye'' is almost totally deserted.deserted, for good reason.
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* GhostTown: The town from ''Spirit's Eye'' is almost totally deserted.


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* SealedEvilInACan: The thieves who stole the gemstones from the ''Tomb of Zojir'' unleashed some pretty nasty supernatural threats into the world.
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: The [=DVD=] editions use in-case supplemental documents as part of the scenario, and the later games even use markings on ''the CD itself'' as one of their clues.
** [[spoiler: Also, ''Shadows of the Servants'''s MindScrew ending reveals that Mira "summoned" the protagonist and others to the mansion by ''putting the video game on the market''.]]
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A series of PC horror adventure games from [=WRF=] Studios. Themes of voodoo and vampirism, spooky swamps, ruins, and dilapidated mansions are common to all games in the series, set in a "Black World" of gypsy curses and malignant shadow-spirits.

Early games are traditional ''Myst''-style point-and-click, while ''Society of the Serpent Moon'' employs a 3-D avatar protagonist. In a throwback to the early days of PC gaming, ''Last Half of Darkness'' [=DVD=]-packs incorporate printed supplements that are necessary to decode in-game clues.

Entries in the series include:

* ''Last Half of Darkness'' (1991)
* ''Shadows of the Servants'' (2005)
* ''Beyond the Spirit's Eye'' (2008)
* ''Tomb of Zojir'' (2010)
* ''Society of the Serpent Moon'' (2011)

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* BorrowedBiometricBypass: A finger severed from one of Markus's victims.
* HauntedHouse: Plenty
* LooksLikeOrlok: Markus from ''Spirit's Eye''
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: There's a ''monkey'' vampire in ''Shadows of the Servants''.
* PointAndClickGame
* SwampsAreEvil
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