The House at the Edge of Time

Box front of The House at the Edge of Time

Details

Released
1990
Developer
Pat Pflieger
Publisher
Freeware
Genre
Adventure / Interactive Fiction
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Freeware \ Shareware
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Not included

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Screenshots

Title screen of The House at the Edge of Time
Title screen
Gameplay of The House at the Edge of Time
Gameplay

About this game

When your eccentric uncle dies he leaves behind his vast fortune to you. The catch? You've gotta spend one chilling night at his Pseudo-Tudor-Greco-Gothic-Byzantine mansion. The other catch? Well it seems that the laws of space and time don't really apply within its walls. As you roam around his house you'll run into characters and creatures from all over the place and if you survive long enough you'll be greatly rewarded.

The House at the Edge of Time is a text adventure which takes place within one house. The usual rules of the text adventures apply in regards to movement and interaction. Movement is made through the various scenes by typing in the directions you'd like to move such as North, South, or N, S for short. Interaction with objects that you "look" at are done by figuring out the vocabulary of the game and applying it by typing simple phrases like "Take flower" or "Pull door". A list of inventory of items you've picked up is also available by typing out inventory.

Also known as

The House at the Edge of Time, a puzzle of time and spaceTag-lined

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Theme
Mystery