Mystery House

Mystery House is a monochrome interactive fiction adventure game that places the player in a Victorian mansion with seven other people. As the player explores the mansion, he discovers that there is a killer murdering each guest one by one. The objective of the game is to figure out who the murderer is before the murderer finds the hero. Players explore and manipulate objects by typing in one or two-word phrases such as "north" or "get knife".

Added September 28, 2020
Published By StarCraft, Inc.
Sierra On-Line
Front Cover (United States) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United States) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Media (United States) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
IGDB Cover from igdb.com
Title screen (Apple II) from mobygames.com
The game begins here (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Exploring the kitchen (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Ah, a candle. Could be useful... (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Hmm, another note... (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Uh oh, a dead body! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Someone is throwing daggers at you! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Cast of characters. Quite crammed in here, but the ranks will soon thin out! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
The notes contain valuable hints. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Found a key... (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Six fresh graves... Very suspicious! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Yet another dead body. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Another corpse, with a clue this time. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Yet another clue. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Huh, the parser doesn't want you to say naughty words. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Found a secret passage! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
My, another dead one. And some mighty big key, I must say. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Welcome to the traditional maze. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Found a gun. Time for action! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Oh no! Quick, do something! (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Great, I always wanted to be a Guru Wizard. (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Notice from the public domain version (Apple II) from mobygames.com
Title Screen (earlier than freeware release) (Apple II) from mobygames.com
You need to change your disk in DRIVE 1 now! from mobygames.com
Standing in front of an abandoned Victorian-styled mansion! from mobygames.com
At the Entrance! from mobygames.com
Meeting the seven men and women, all strangers in the Entrance Hall! from mobygames.com
Interesting! The notes that are scattered around the place MAY give you some valuable clues! from mobygames.com
The Kitchen. There is a refrigerator, gas stand and a cabinet! from mobygames.com
I found some matches in the cabinet! from mobygames.com
The Dining Hall. There seems to be a candle here! from mobygames.com
We did not start the fire! Uh.....actually we did...oops! from mobygames.com
You are in the back garden, which was surrounded by a fence.....wait...there is a corpse here! from mobygames.com
It is Mechanic Sam and he is hit on the head with a blunt object! from mobygames.com
You are in an enclosed small cemetery. There are 6 freshly dug graves! from mobygames.com
A library that has not been used for a long time! from mobygames.com
Oh oh! Something tells me that it does not stay with one corpse! from mobygames.com
I went upstairs. The corridor leads to East, West, and North. from mobygames.com
It is an old children's room. Oh no! Another corpse! from mobygames.com
Now it is Doctor Green and he is stabbed and killed! from mobygames.com
Inside a large bedroom and a knife flew from outside the room! from mobygames.com
In a small bedroom and there is another corpse in there! from mobygames.com
In the Study. Now what is so interesting about that painting? Do not you recognise it? Yes, that looks exactly like a scene from another game; Mission Asteroid! from mobygames.com
Title Screen; 1 - Start Game 2 - Game Explanation from mobygames.com
Instructions: from mobygames.com
Instructions: from mobygames.com
Instructions: from mobygames.com
Instructions: Here is a list of the names, hair colors and professions of the 7 strange men and women! Name (hair color) profession from mobygames.com
Standing in front of an abandoned Victorian styled Mansion! from mobygames.com
A the Entrance! from mobygames.com
Meeting 7 strange men and women in the Entrance Hall! from mobygames.com
Interesting! It seems that there is some expensive jewelry hidden somewhere in this house! from mobygames.com
The Kitchen. There is a refrigerator, gas stand and a cabinet. from mobygames.com
There is a jug in the refrigerator! from mobygames.com
Twist faucet and then water has come out! from mobygames.com
You are in the dining room! from mobygames.com
Fire! Fire! Fire! from mobygames.com
You are in the back garden, which was surrounded by a fence.....wait...there is a corpse here! from mobygames.com
It is Sam the Mechanic! He is hit on the head with a blunt object! from mobygames.com
You are in an enclosed small cemetery. There are 6 freshly dug graves! from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1980

Platform(s):

Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

Setting/Theme:
Mystery

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