Agartha

About

Agartha is a lost adventure game built for the Sega Dreamcast by No Cliché. Creative director Frédérick Raynal led the team to create a dark world beneath Romania where a subterranean city called Agartha holds back evil forces. You play as Kirk, exploring this underground realm while facing monsters, fanatics, and demons. Your choices determine whether you help innocent villagers or let chaos take over. The story shifts based on your moral decisions throughout the journey. Development halted in 2001 when Sega stopped making Dreamcast consoles, leaving the title unfinished. Unseen64 later uncovered early footage showing a moody atmosphere and impressive graphics for its time. Community discussions about the game often highlight how close it came to becoming a survival horror classic before production ended abruptly. The available clips reveal a technical skill that No Cliché displayed in other projects like Alone in the Dark. This unfinished gem remains a curious piece of gaming history that fans still talk about when discussing lost Dreamcast titles.

Storyline

During the winter of 1929 in a Romanian village that was partially destroyed by a landslide that occurred during a mysterious earthquake, a subterranean city exists called Agartha. This is where evil is being kept prisoner and is desperate to escape. Kirk the human hero will encounter a series of characters from villages, the living dead, fanatics from an evil sect, monsters, demons, solider monks, priests, archangels and the Sentinel who is the ultimate personification of evil. As Kirk you can decide to save as many innocent people as possible or to trigger the arrival of chaos on earth. As Kirk’s morals waver between good and evil, this ambiguity changes the aims of the adventure and the narration of the story.