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The Berenstain Bears in the Dark is an educational computer game released in 1996 for the MS-DOS platform. It falls under the reading and writing genre and is based on the children's book of the same name. The title was developed by Living Books and published by Brøderbund Software, Inc. The game presents its story from a third-person perspective, adapting the narrative where Brother Bear reads a scary story to Sister Bear, leading to her fear of the dark, a situation Papa Bear helps to resolve.

Players experience the story through two primary modes. In the Read To Me mode, the narrative is read aloud automatically, allowing the user to follow along. The Let Me Play mode offers interactive engagement, enabling players to click on various items and characters within the illustrated scenes to trigger animations and sounds. The core activity involves progressing through the storybook pages, with interactivity focused on exploring the detailed backgrounds. The game also includes two bonus activities: Animal Match, a memory-based matching game, and Picture Jumble, a puzzle where players reassemble a scrambled image.

Progression is linear, following the established plot from the book. The software disc contains demo versions of other Living Books titles. Additionally, the PC version's disc includes audio tracks that can be played in a standard CD player to listen to musical elements from the game independently of the computer software.