The advertisements both at the end of the demo and on other media suggest a total of eight hours of play.
The demo, which took around two hours to beat, is one-fourth of the entire game. He is not alone however as both traps left by the personnel and a living threat that roams the halls are in his path to safety and the fate of his father. Phillip must escape his confines and attempt to find out what happened to both his father and the personnel of the facility. After being locked in and passing out, Phillip awakens and starts the story of Penumbra: Black Plague. Coming out of the his underground maze, Phillip comes upon a secret facility and is thrown into a room. Facing mutations of native animals, he searched deeper and deeper. This game is the further story of Phillip that started in Penumbra: Overture which saw him enter an underground area, that was part of an abandoned mine, in search of his father.
Taking place in Greenland, you play the role of Philip as he escapes his imprisonment and attempts to explore the underground facility that surrounds him. Penumbra: Black Plague is two parts The Thing and one part BioShock. Penumbra: 1 ) a space of partial illumination 4) something that covers, surrounds, or obscures. This game won by fifty-percent of the vote. This game was picked out for review by those who voted in a poll over on NapalmRiot, a social-networking site for gamers.
