Daedalic's Memoria out today, looks promisingly beautiful

Daedalic's got a pretty good pedigree in the mostly barren land of adventure gaming—its last release, Night of the Rabbit , was a wistful journey full of frogs wearing classy little hats (really, how could the softhearted animal lovers making up the PCG team say no?). The developer's new game is the "fantasy-crime" story Memoria , which looks a heck of a lot darker than the rest of their back catalog, but is certainly no less intriguing.

Memoria is set in that universe of The Dark Eye. No, not that Dark Eye . And not the Poe-inspired Dark Eye , either. We're talking about the Chains of Satinav , one of Daedalic's previous adventure games, which was home to such locales as the dragon-built temple Draconia (which we'll get to explore once again). A special promotion heralds Memoria's release, granting it a 10% discount to $18 on Steam for the next week. The Longest Journey was the last game whose fantasy beauty awed me this much—hopefully it'll live up to my now-solidified expectations.