Dark Tales: From the Lost Soul is a Japanese exclusive horror Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game featuring 3 stories unrelated to each other. The game starts at a bar with strange guests and a creepy senior host who stars telling the stories to the guests.
The stories are as follows:
Cat & Mouse: A detective on the trail of a Christmas Eve serial killer is led to an abandoned amusement park. He must navigate through traps and avoid sudden attacks from the killer to apprehend him.
Ghost Writer: Players take the role of a writer who receives a mysterious CD through the mail. After installing it, he starts getting nightmares, and if he survives through them, he finds parts of the story being written for him.
The Honeymoon: A newlywed couple is being chased by a mysterious driver in a police car. Will they survive and avoid the driver?
The game features full motion videos with most games not featuring any people on screen. Gameplay involves making choices on what to use or where to go at set periods of time, quick-time events where players dodge attacks from stalkers, and shooting segments where players try to shoot enemies with limited ammo.
Each story has multiple endings, and successive playthroughs or game overs allow players to skip videos they've already seen.
The Honeymoon story has the most endings. After unlocking each ending, it features flashbacks that give hints to players on how to unlock the endings they haven't seen yet.