Night Manor (part of UFO 50; cherry obtained for review)

I’ve spent a lot of time playing first-person point-and-click adventure games like “Night Manor”, and one of these days, I might even find one that threatens to be great. The shock of “oh, wow, they put a full-length horror game in here” gives it some brownie points early on, as does the surprise of the stalker you encounter, but with death being a slap on the wrist and the plot confined to the usual sort of one-dimensional apocalyptic logs, its thrills don’t last long and the golden ending, while sensical, simply registers as an anticlimax. Still better than “Shadowgate”, though.

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