Bungie's 1993 dungeon shooter ported to the modern Aleph One engine.
0 playing nowFull original pyramid levels, dialogue system, inventory management, modernized rendering.
Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) is a community add-on for Marathon 2: Durandal. Experience Bungie's first landmark FPS with modern controls, widescreen rendering, and gamepad support. Use the PlayBound launcher to drop the archive into the correct Marathon 2: Durandal content folder, then enable the mod from the game's mod or content menu. Mods are versioned separately from the base game — match the recommended engine or client release before joining multiplayer, and keep a clean backup of your settings if you experiment with several packs at once. PlayBound only lists projects that publish redistributable archives or clear external download pages. Always read the upstream README for credits, required assets, and known incompatibilities.
Install with the PlayBound Launcher
The launcher installs this into Scenarios/Pathways/. If the base game is missing, it will install that first.
Install alephone first if you have not already — Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) is an add-on and needs the base game.
The quickest route is the PlayBound Launcher: open alephone, find Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) in its mods list and press Install. The launcher downloads the official release and places it in the right folder for you.
To install it by hand, download the latest release archive from github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/pathways-into-darkness/releases.
Extract the archive into the "Scenarios/Pathways" folder inside your alephone installation directory.
Start alephone and enable Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) from the in-game mods or add-ons menu. The download is roughly 60 MB.
Yes. Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) is released under Freeware / Community and costs nothing. Neither it nor alephone has any paid content.
alephone, which is itself free. Pathways into Darkness (Aleph One) is an add-on and will not run standalone.
The PlayBound Launcher installs it in one click from alephone's mods list. You can also install it by hand — full steps are on this page.
Roughly 60 MB, on top of the base alephone installation.
Yes. The source is published at github.com/Aleph-One-Marathon/pathways-into-darkness under Freeware / Community.