One oy my favourite things from Society of Curiosities is the post-game debrief. We used one or two hints during the game, which gave us enough of a nudge to figure things out for ourselves. Whenever we failed to get the chatbot to respond to us, it was because we’d not solved the puzzle properly and starting putting in what we thought it wanted, rather than there being any errors on their end.
#The mystery house game full#
On the whole it worked pretty well, allowing us to ‘speak’ to it with full sentences and giving us the feel of interacting with another character.
The materials were a mixture of scanned documents, drawings and photographs of drawings (I really appreciated the rogue thumbs holding up photos in some of the pictures we got, to really sell the idea that we were being sent these items in real time).Īll our answers were submitted using the in-game chatbot. The whole game is done through a single online interface with your materials in a main central window and a chat panel to the right where you interact with your ‘man on the ground’. The story you unravel is one of profound love, loss and unfinished business – a tale of passion that leaves you with a good feeling, despite the spooky overtones towards the beginning. I liked the concept of being hired in a hurry to investigate the ghostly goings on at the manor. Anyone who’s played the Bioshock video games will know how profoundly creepy those old songs can be in the right context, and it set me on edge right away. But the tone was that of a profound spookiness, made all the more eerie through the use of radio static and old jazz and ragtime songs. It’s very much a family-friendly game – there’s nothing scary here. The tone of The Glasshouse Ghost is how I imagine walking into Disneyland’s The Haunted Mansion must feel.
Throughout the game I was presented with enough of the details of the to house to build up a picture of my own.
I knew nothing of the actual house going in to play The Glasshouse Ghost, but I didn’t need to. First off, it’s worth noting that Winchester Mystery House is a real place in California, with a strange and rich history of its own.
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