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Anchorhead
Nov. 4th, 2004 11:29 amThis (public domain) game has kept me up late for a couple of nights:
Anchorhead
It's an old-school text-adventure game, but it's really good. (It runs on the Z-Machine, so you can play it on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, whatever once you download the appropriate z-machine emulator - eg. Frotz)
The game is set in its namesake, Anchorhead, a small coastal village, not too far from Arkham, Massachusett. You have come here with your husband to oversee your brother-in-law's estate, who commited suicide after murdering his wife and daughters. What sent him mad? What secret is hiding in this sleepy fishing village?
The plot goes nicely, the mystery and secrets of the town slowly unravelling, and the game interface is good too - i didn't find myself getting annoyed with the interpreter at any stage, even though I haven't played one of these sort of games in ages.
Anchorhead
It's an old-school text-adventure game, but it's really good. (It runs on the Z-Machine, so you can play it on your PC, Mac, mobile phone, whatever once you download the appropriate z-machine emulator - eg. Frotz)
The game is set in its namesake, Anchorhead, a small coastal village, not too far from Arkham, Massachusett. You have come here with your husband to oversee your brother-in-law's estate, who commited suicide after murdering his wife and daughters. What sent him mad? What secret is hiding in this sleepy fishing village?
The plot goes nicely, the mystery and secrets of the town slowly unravelling, and the game interface is good too - i didn't find myself getting annoyed with the interpreter at any stage, even though I haven't played one of these sort of games in ages.