Anchorhead

Description

In a "grim little cul-de-sac" outside a real estate office, a young woman knocks on the agent's door for the second time. An umbrella barely keeps the rain off her. The odor of garbage mixed with sewage and seawater assail her sense of smell. Aside from the full professorship offered to her husband by the local university, the move to Anchorhead seems to have little going for it.

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.

Part of the Following Groups

• Glulx games
• H. P. Lovecraft games
• Z-Code

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User Reviews

After slogging through pale Lovecraft imitations, someone finally gets it right.	Windows	Terrence Bosky (5237)
Captivating; very well-developed story and excellent attention to detail	DOS	Mirrorshades2k (282)

The Press Says

SPAG	DOS	Sep 15, 1999	8.7 out of 10	87
The Good Old Days	DOS	Aug 08, 2009	5 out of 6	83

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Trivia

Michael Gentry is planning to release an updated edition of Anchorhead in November 2007, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the game. This new edition will be a complete rewrite of the code in version 7 of the Inform programming language (the current release version was written in version 6 of Inform).