Noctropolis is a 1994 MS-DOS third-person adventure game by Flashpoint Productions and published by Electronic Arts.
The player assumes the role of the character Peter Grey, a lonely bookstore owner who winds up in the world of his favorite comic book.
"[3] A reviewer for Next Generation highly praised the game's story, abstract and challenging puzzles, comic-book style backgrounds, digitized character animation, soundtrack, and dark atmosphere.
"[4] In 2015 Night Dive Studios acquired the rights of the game and was able to recover the source code from the original developer.
[8] Players who pirated a copy of this version of Noctropolis will see their character imprisoned on the game over screen instead of the standard animations.