House of Hell (Standalone)

This was made for a certain kind of person. Basically, if you've never read an interactive adventure book before. You read the story as it progresses and you make decisions. Most of the decisions you make will end up in the protagonist getting killed. The goal is to make it out alive, which sure as ♥♥♥♥ isn't easy. It's a lot of trial and error, but also a lot of interactivity. More so than your average "interactive" novel. Most of the time you play, you'll get your ass fried or eaten. There are also old school D&D RPG elements; rolling for stats to determine how effective you are. This can also be seen as a drawback, since bad rolls will literally ♥♥♥♥ your ability to advance at times. You also get an adventure sheet with the inventory of stuff you've collected along with information and clues that will help you advance, or unlock other options. If you like D&D and horror literature, then I strongly recommend, otherwise, this might be the wrong genre for you.

An excellent classic horror game where a shirtless old man is scarier than a vampire or a ghost.

Game rating Innovation: Specific Indulgement qualities: Specific Illustration: Above average Creativity and writing qualities: Average Overall size: Small

4 рубля игра

It was really fun to play.

There is a bug here that is almost game-breaking, and it's not in UK-Steve Jackson's gamebook but in the unbelievably sloppy implementation: Depending on what font size and window size you use (I used the minimum font size and one above it, same problem), the hit spots of the choices don't match up. So what happens frequently is that you end up with exactly the choice you didn't pick, with no way back. The only workaround is to carefully approach the awfully designed button of your choice from the side that is furthest from the invisibly overlapping other buttons and press and hold the mouse instead of clicking, so you can move away and release in case the wrong one is highlighted. Astounding really, that when the whole gameplay consists of a single, simple mouse click, someone can f that up. Diabolic, really.

Ca rappelle beaucoup de bons vieux souvenirs...

[h1] House of Hell is a Gamebook to remember [/h1] This is an adaptation of the classic Fighting Fantasy adventure made by Steve Jackson. It's very different from other entries, being sort of in the "current times" instead of medieval fantasy. It also has a FEAR system where you can die of fright depending on your choices/encounters in this house. As a gamebook, the gameplay is quite simple, you get to roll your stats and fight/decide where to go which redirects you to different paragraph. For example, "open this door, go to paragraph XXX, you would rather ignore this door, turn to paragraph YYY". The good news is that this book/adventure is very well designed, actually made by the devil itself as you can get lost in this impressive house and the solution is quite tricky. Although even on failed attempts you might learn some info for the next playthroughs. The art is all there, even the censored image (too shocking at that time for kids!!!), it's been colorized but you can still switch on the go to the old school black & white art. I've had no bug except a strange one where once my dice went off the screen, every time it would be rolled again, it would just fall. In conclusion, I would recommend this version (compared to the Fighting Fantasy Classic one) only because it has more achievements (getting them all could make you crazy), and also it includes a very small "story behind House of Hell by Steve Jackson". Other than that, you can get the cheaper Classic DLC version.