The psychological horror game Lust for Darkness was scheduled to release back in 2019 but was delisted for its content. The North American rating board (ESRB) classified the adult content as failing to meet standards. Now, Lust for Darkness announced that the game has been reworked and will once again launch on the Nintendo Switch.
The original game originally launched in 2018 for PC players, and then was slowly added to PlayStation and Xbox. The game itself was Kickstarted and developed by Movie Games Lunarium and received a PEGI-18 due to the sexual imagery - so much so that the game almost immediately vanished from the North American eShop due to the overwhelming imagery or as one article reports, "Just genitals everywhere, really."
SimFabric tweaked some of the content so they could meet ESRBs standards and are now happy to release the game on March 20th. The game will now be called Lust for Darkness: Dawn Edition and still maintains a Mature rating. The new version has toned down the explicitly sexual situations but still keeps the dark themes of occults and sexuality. Now horror fans can enjoy the game from anywhere on their Nintendo Switch, offering a much more mature experience than what the console is typically associated with.
The game itself follows Jonathan Moon after receiving a mysterious letter from his wife, who has been missing for the past year. The letter leads the main character to a creepy otherworldly mansion which is inspired by the works of Lovecraft, H.R. Giger, and Zdzisław Beksiński. Although not the most bizarre horror game, players will have to travel between the mansion and an alternate alien dimension where all creatures are stuck in eternal ecstasy.
Lust for Darkness will launch in Nintendo eShops on March 20th alongside the new Animal Crossing: New Horizons, likely drawing vastly different gamers. However, for die-hard fans of Lust for Darkness, a sequel game is in the works and was Kickstarted last year. Whether a horror fan or not, it looks like Nintendo will have plenty of content options for anyone stuck in self-isolation.