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Great game! Although, I needed to google a few hints :)
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I love Lovecraft, I adore text adventures, I venerate Anchorhead.
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This game pulls you in to a rich story that grows increasingly dark as time goes on. The storytelling is excellent and the puzzles are challenging. Just be sure to turn over every rock and look behind every door.
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Well written, excellent atmosphere, and has a pretty approachable interface for a text-based game. The puzzles are challenging at times but rarely ridiculous (with a few exceptions in the last act). About the only real gripe I have is a soft lock if you e
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If you have any love for Lovecraft's writing then this is the game for you. Not only is it based upon Lovecraft, but unlike many other games that are influenced by his work, it feels as if you are an actual protagonist in his stories. No guns, and littl
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Very well writtened horror text adventure game.
Don't feel bad about using a guide, however - its one of *those* games where its not always clear what you're doing may softlock or straight up kill you due to misdirection. Take notes, make a map, and get
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This game becomes functionally impossible if you don't take your husband's university ID on the morning of Day 2. If you have any interest in playing this game blind, take that bit of knowledge onboard right now. Remember it, and DO NOT let yourself progr
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This is one of the better text adventures I've played, going back to the '80s. That it's a Lovecraftian horror makes it even better. I encountered very few text errors and only one bug with a key word that forced dropping, well, a key to be able to use
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Some of the best prose you'll find in gaming. This is an underappreciated gem and I hope it can be enjoyed and remembered for many years to come.
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In 2019 I finished The Lurking Horror. The experience was bumpy. But I had a great time. TLH was my first IF game that I finished. With it came a learning curve. Four years passed and I find that I’m burned out on modern games. Maybe it’s because I’
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A very well-written text adventure with plenteous references to Lovecraft (numerous story elements and tropes combined from several stories). The puzzles are sometimes hard and sometimes easy; with even a minor hint they can usually be solved, though some
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While the game is very good and very well made, I did on multiple occasions get to places you weren't supposed to be at when you aren't supposed to be there, and the game soft locks you in place. No game over, no way forward, no way backwards. It gets stu
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a classic
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I liked the story, but the bugs and incongruities had me consulting a walkthrough, and good adventures shouldn't need walkthroughs to solve. WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW!!!
- The Storm Tunnel lets you go south to the Flooded Passage before the gate is cracked
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One of the most evocative and disturbing games I have ever played. The original release was the first major Interactive Fiction game I had ever played and so returning to this remaster was wonderful. An ageless classic.
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If you enjoy text-based games, this is a must buy -- particularly if you like horror, sleuthing, and/or the Cthulhu mythos.
For older gamers, note that this game is as good as (and in some respects even better than) many classic Infocom interactive fic
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Looks great on Steam and is one of the greatest text adventures ever made.
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[I]>reach fire escape
What do you want to reach the metal ladder around?
>climb ladder
You still can't quite reach the bottom rung; it's just a few inches above your outstretched fingertips.
>use umbrella ladder
That's not a verb I recognize.
>reach
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A deeply beautiful, well written and above all disturbing piece. I played anchorhead when it was first released many, many years ago and I'm very happy to pay to own a copy via steam as the hours of enjoyment I got from it then were worth it. Any one wi
