The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan Reviews

The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is ranked in the 44th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7 / 10
Aug 28, 2019

Studio Supermassive Games knows, how to make great story games. Unfortunately, what they once managed to do in Until Dawn, in Man of Medan fails upon its short game lenght, which does harm mainly to the main characters and dialogues. Otherwise beautiful variety of choice, dark horrifying atmosphere and the feeling of never-ending uncertainty hides behind technical issues, which constantly disturb impressive continuity of the story. Man of Medan thrives in bringing something new as perfectly-done multiplayer into the world of story-telling adventure games, but fails in ways, in which others excel.

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7 / 10
Sep 11, 2019

A cool horror game that sometimes depends on jumpscares a little too much.

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7 / 10.0
Sep 1, 2019

Technical issues and graphical glitches aside, Man Of Medan is a pretty good title, with a creepy atmosphere and enough jump scares to keep you on edge through most of the game. The characters themselves, with a few exceptions, are generally unlikable though and it’s something Until Dawn had issues with too through much of its run-time. While I understand that generally in horror movies you’ll find the same thing, the archetypal characters and cookie-cutter characterisation offers little substance to build empathy with these people, and much of the time spent playing this you’ll find yourself progressing passively, rather than genuinely caring whether these people make it to safety or not.

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7 / 10.0
Dec 6, 2019

Man of Medan is an okay introduction to Supermassive Games' stories for Xbox and PC players. PS4 should stick to the previous titles

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7 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2019

The moment where everything makes sense, is when the player realizes that if he does not understand in time what the mystery is, he ends up being responsible for the biggest misfortunes that can happen to the characters in the game.

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3.4 / 5.0
Aug 28, 2019

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan offers up fun frights and a solid choice-based horror experience - especially when played with others on the same couch.

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Gamersky
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6.6 / 10.0
Sep 2, 2019

It is obvious that Man of Medan's gameplay inherits from Until Dawn, but the online multiplayer mode is impressive and interesting. Beside that, it is a underwhelming game with a bad story-telling pace.

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6.5 / 10.0
Sep 6, 2019

When played with a group of friends The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is an undeniably fun experience. However, the main story and core game feel rather skeletal when not being filled out by the real-world flesh and blood of your nearest and dearest. Bugs and performance issues constantly nag, but the real disappointment is that as a horror story Man of Medan is not even close to being as smart or fun as its predecessor. I hope the next entry in The Dark Pictures anthology can recapture the gore and glory from Until Dawn.

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Ben Salter
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Aug 29, 2019

While the story didn’t live up to expectations, the actors’ performances are fantastic as Man of Medan delivers its quota of horror tropes in chapter one of The Dark Pictures Anthology.

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6.5 / 10.0
Sep 6, 2019

Man of Medan offers an interesting horror story with a unique way of cooperative gameplay, but it should offer more interactivity and more replayability.

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6.3 / 10.0
Jul 29, 2019

Man of Medan does some things extremely well, particularly with its well-crafted story that offers great replay value, and choices having more impact than in Until Dawn. But then it completely fails on other fronts such as the many game-breaking technical problems, a horrible online experience, lack of a flowchart or cutscene skip in Chapter Select, and an absurdly convoluted trophy list.

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Metro GameCentral
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6 / 10
Aug 28, 2019

Combining Until Dawn's style of mild horror with online multiplayer works great, but the actual story and characters fail to engage.

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6 / 10
Aug 30, 2019

Man of Medan is a thinner, flawed follow-up to Until Dawn that is saved by its online co-op mode.

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Aug 28, 2019

With Man of Medan, Supermassive builds on the foundation established in 2015's Until Dawn. While the core of the game remains the same, driven by dialog, choices, and quick-time events, the developers has added some multiplayer action to the mix. The two-player online Shared Story is the primary highlight here, allowing two players to simultaneously determine the course of the story. Unfortunately, the story itself isn't as good as the horror yarn spun in Until Dawn.

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6 / 10
Aug 28, 2019

While Man of Medan isn’t the greatest game you’ll play this year, it does a good enough job of setting the Dark Pictures Anthology series out to sea.

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IGN Italy
Davide "AMBRO" Ambrosiani
Top Critic
6 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2019

Men of Medan promises a story about ghosts but the only ghost on the ship is the system of choiches and consequences, flat and shallow, "un-supported" by an unstable framerate and by command system that feels old and intricate. What saves this debut from failure is the atmosphere and the possibilities about future episodes.

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3 / 5.0
Aug 28, 2019

Despite how negative I may have seemed there, I do genuinely want The Dark Pictures Anthology to continue and succeed (the game even seems to tease the next entry in it, seemingly already in the works), as I loved Until Dawn and would love to see more similar experiences from Supermassive. But despite having the same solid mechanics as its big brother, Man of Medan starts the anthology off on a thoroughly "meh" note, thanks its unimpressive, poorly-constructed story.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2019

Until Dawn follow-up Man of Medan has amazing ideas in the cooperative space but collapses under the weights of performance issues.

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Aug 28, 2019

Buy Man of Medan if you liked Until Dawn and want to see how The Dark Pictures Anthology might shape up. Avoid this game if you can't abide performance issues or slow gameplay.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2019

While it feels like a not insignificant step down from the breakout hit Until Dawn, Supermassive Games' latest attempt at interactive horror still serves up some compelling thrills and chills. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan definitely gets better the deeper you get into its story, but traveling that path is fraught with technical issues and questionable narrative direction more often than it should be.

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