The Lurking Horror (1987)
- Platforms
- DOS, Mac, C64, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Apple II
- Where to get it
- My Abandonware
How it feels
You navigate a claustrophobic college campus through text alone, piecing together cryptic clues as a tangible sense of wrongness tightens around you.
interactive fictiontext-basedatmosphericcreeping dreadinstitutionalpuzzle-solvingslow-burnunsettling
Screenshots
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