Elizabeth Bathory is a really nasty piece of work - she keeps her youthful looks by bathing in the blood of young maidens. Now she's gone and kidnapped your sister and imprisoned her in the depths of a forbidding castle. Your mission is to go through all her things while she's not around and sell the good stuff in the local tavern. Only kidding - it's off to the castle for a sibling rescue mission for you.

Dark Carpathian is a 3D Construction Kit game involving the usual wandering around a filled-vector world solving logic puzzles that block your entry to the next bit. The objects are well-designed with the odd spot of animation thrown in and you can understand the puzzles without any problem. It suffers from the same things that all 3D Construction Kit games do - slow gameplay with lots of time spent bumbling round a cubist world with nobody to talk to. This is one of the better of the genre and worth an outing if you like your games to proceed, er, thoughtfully. Along with the game you get folders full of objects that the programmer has kindly created for you to use with your own 3D Construction Kit games.