Daemonica

Daemonica tells the story of Nicholas Farepoynt, a "beast hunter". These are people who investigate serial murderers, "human beasts", and solve their crimes. They do this via the ancient demonic language Daemonica, using it to summon a "soul bearer" demon to temporarily take them to the afterlife so that they can interrogate the spirits of the dead connected to the crime. They need to know certain facts about the deceased to do this, and they can also summon a different demon with the power of resurrection, although no beast hunter is known to have done this and survived.

In the prologue, the player learns that Nicholas is the son of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and Queen Isabella of France, who were responsible for the death of King Edward II of England. When Mortimer was subsequently executed, Nicholas was sent to a church in France and given the surname Farepoynt instead. He later became a mercenary and joined the English army in the Hundred Years' War. When he returned to England he met the beast hunter Clarice, who taught Nicholas his trade until they worked on a case in York, when she made a mistake which cost her her life.

The game was announced by software studio RA Images in January 2005. It was their first video game project and was scheduled for release in Q1 of 2005.

Daemonica was released in the Czech Republic in May 2005. It was published by Cinemax, which also co-developed the game. In 2006, it was published in North America by Meridian4.