Scapeghost
Published: February 1, 2009 - Last update: January 31, 2012 - 548 downloads
- Year
- 1991
- Genre
- Adventure
- Theme
- Detective / Mystery, Interactive Fiction with Graphics
- Publisher
- Level 9 Computing, Ltd.
- Perspective
- 1st-Person
3 votes
266 KiB
Description of Scapeghost
In 1991, Level 9 Computing, Ltd. publishes Scapeghost, a detective / mystery, interactive fiction with graphics game for the DOS system. Offering adventure genre, it is now an abandonware.
Level 9's last adventure game features one of the most unique plots and player character ever seen in a game, even though the puzzles are sometimes bordering on the illogical. You are a police man who returns from beyond the grave as a ghost who has to overcome the troubles of ghost-dom together with your ghost friends in order to solve your final case and avenge your own death. The game is excellent in every respect-- the parser is very powerful and rivals Level 9's own Knight Orc in versatility. Non-player characters are quite memorable, especially your ghost friends who will pour out their hearts on you and keep constant company with incessant stories of how they died. Most puzzles involve pleasing those ghosts so they could help you in return, and are largely fun because you have to think like a real ghost to succeed :) Overall, Scapeghost is a great but overlooked Level 9 classic that isn't nearly as good as their best games, but is definitely much better than most other IF games. I don't recall ever playing a ghost again until LucasArts' Curse of Monkey Island and, more dramatically, Dreamforge's Sanitarium. Thumbs up!
Review by HOTUD
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mymoon added this comment :
played this one to death. one of the most beautifully written interactive fiction games.