2007 · Adventure

Dead Reefs

Dead Reefs is a beautiful mystery adventure which takes place on an island off of England's coast, set in the tumultuous 18th century. In the course of a murder investigation, Dead Reefs will take gamers through a world of intrigue and suspense! Features atmospheric sound, music, and visual set in the 18th century will immerse gamers into story. Over 40 minutes of high-quality cut-scenes Dynamically evolving events keep the player entertained.

Released: 3 July 2007
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Adventure
Developers: —
Publishers: The Adventure Company
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Fantasy Horror Historical
Age ratings: PEGI 7 USK 6 ESRB T
Languages: English

About

Dead Reefs is a game, developed by Canadian studio Streko-Graphics and published by The Adventure Company.

The investigative adventure that takes place on the island of Dead Reefs off the coast of England, infamous for the wicked pirate inhabitants and a frightful curse.

Keywords

pirates
puzzle games with stories

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

It is said that for hundreds of years, pirates from the English island of Dead Reefs were looting the ships sailing by and slaughtering their crews. One of the wrecked ships was carrying an old relic, kept secret and locked by a centennial monk order. It is known to have been then stolen and retrieved by the ruler of the island, Baron DeSantra.

Shortly after, inhabitants of the island started dying in unnatural ways one by one. The first victim of this strange series of events was the Baron's wife, who was killed by her husband with his sword.

Development

The island of Dead Reefs is not based on some pre-existing island in real life. Streko-Graphics handled all the scripts and voice recordings, whereas the publisher recruited the voice actors of the roles. The game was written using the Virtools 3D platform. Evgeniy Lebed was the lead developer. The game had 16 characters, over 40 minutes of high-quality cuts and atmospheric music.

A demo was released 20 July 2007, and premiered at E3. The game was first published by DreamCatcher in the United States, and afterwards by New Disk in Russia. Atari France distributed the games in France. A fan-made Czech localisation of the game was made in 2008.