Alone in the Dark is a pretty good investment for anyone who's a fan of survival horror games to look back on and see where we have come from. The game is more difficult than it needs to be with some questionable controls or camera angles, especially during specific sections requiring platforming, or aiming a bow down a hallway to shoot at something (that is also shooting you).
The game does have some fun with its gameplay structure, which I give it credit for. You can skip the enemy encounters in the first room entirely by simply blocking their entrances, there's a room with a healing flask inside but going in risks more harm than the payout, there are books in the library you can read that causes your character to contort and bang their head against the floor (or just float for a second before dying). I'd say the biggest flaw is the trial and error gameplay structure that arises from being a game of its age.

If you know what you are doing, it is a very short experience. If going in blind, a pretty decent older game that you can see spawn a whole genre, just be sure to keep that giant pot of human soup handy for a few rooms down.