Anchorhead

Box front of Anchorhead

Details

Released
1998
Developer
Michael S. Gentry
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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Title screen of Anchorhead
Title screen
Gameplay of Anchorhead
Gameplay
Gameplay of Anchorhead
Gameplay

About this game

Anchorhead is a horror-themed interactive fiction game set in a Lovecraftian dilapidated fishing village. After a gruesome death ends the Verlac family line, a young couple, from a distant branch of the family, inherit the ancestral mansion. The player takes on the role of the wife in this horror-themed interactive fiction game, exploring the mansion and the town, talking to its denizens, and uncovering the mystery that hangs like a miasma over the town.

The plot is divided into three days, but - save for a few time-critical puzzles - the player need not hurry, as time only progresses after puzzles are solved.

Also known as

Anchorhead: An Interactive Tale of Lovecraftian HorrorTag-lined
Anchorhead: An Interactive GothicTag-lined

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Theme
Horror