Underplayed Gems

Castle Elsinore (1992)

Castle Elsinore cover

Platforms: DOS
Genres: Adventure
Rating: 3.0 of 5, 2 player ratings
Where to get it: My Abandonware

How it feels

a clunky and frustrating text adventure with obscure logical puzzles and an inflexible parser, offering little beyond its age.

text-basedvintageclunkyfrustratingpuzzle-heavydatedlinearobscure

Screenshots

Castle Elsinore screenshot 1

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