Dark Scavenger

The player helps the aliens by scavenging an unnamed planet and help them fix their ship. The game offers over six hours of gameplay and over a hundred items that can be made through its crafting system. Scavenger received generally positive reviews from video game critics. Praise was given to the games writing and gameplay mechanics. Problems raised about the game came from its visuals, citing the lack of moving graphics.

• Title — Dark Scavenger • Developer — Psydra Games • Publisher — Psydra Games • Platforms — Windows, Mac • Released — July 12, 2012 • Genre — Point-and-click adventure, Role-playing • Modes — Single-player

• Illustration — The combat system for Dark Scavenger. Dark Scavenger is a turn-based point-and-click adventure game. The game includes a crafting system, with over a hundred weapons that can be forged. The game is centered on a nameless protagonist floating in space. The player is then visited by a God-like blob, before being rescued by three aliens known as "Dark Scavengers": Kamaho, a skeleton; Falsen, a green man with a perpetual grin; and Gazer, a mute alien. The player helps out the aliens fix and find a power supply for the ship.

Dark Scavenger was developed and published by Psydra Games. It was first announced on May 26, 2011. The game was first conceived by Psydra Games' Project Designer Alex Gold while in high school. Originally created as a pen-and-paper RPG with the same name, the games lore and system from there while being modified heavily and simplified. The game was featured in "The Leftfield Collection" at Rezzed in 2012. Michael Plant, writing for The Independent, called Dark Scavenger one of the best games at the event. In September 2012, It was part of a thirty-five game lineup at The Boston Festival of Indie Games. The game was later released for Steam Greenlight on May 16, 2014.