I don't think it's a good point and click game. The game gives you zero feedback, e.g: you can't examine items in your inventory to figure out what they even are or might be used for, you must be standing in the exact correct spot to examine environment objects or nothing happens. The brooch didn't do anything when I used it before I needed to to progress. I've seen screenshots where other people have used it before then, I'm not sure if this is a bug.

There are doorways that lead to death pits, you can't even examine them to see that there's anything wrong. Hope you saved before entering. Invisible death pits in the centre of several rooms. Rats kill you by touching you, I'm not sure why. They don't even seem to be eldritch rats or anything. I don't know what's with the spiders, their sprites look like something from an 8-bit game. It was bugging me trying to think what they looked like, I figured it out - the crab-type Space Invaders. Long pauses at the end of voice lines, and the voice lines often run on past the displayed dialogue so if you skip ahead it skips the following dialogue boxes for that line and fast forwards the entire conversation.

A few moon logic puzzles, particularly the feather one and what I don't think is even a puzzle - walk around a random room for a minute until a secret door opens in the wall. There's absolutely no indication to do this. Hope you know which chemicals and order to use them in for the process for developing photographs, that's actually a puzzle. You only have about a 1/3500 chance of guessing it, so you'd better look it up.


I got stuck in unwinnable states twice, once by using the book before getting the key for it, the game would not allow me to use the book again, had to reload and get the key first before looking at it. Second time was if Bishop walks off the screen without giving you a key, you are stuck in an unwinnable state with no idea that anything is actually wrong unless you look it up. I'm unclear as to what was supposed to be happening at the end of the Hambleton house. The protagonist started running but I had no idea what he was running from. Apparently there's supposed to be a fire? I didn't see anything. Maybe it's some kind of emulation error.

The voice actors' attempts at eldritch gibbering are pretty amusing. I also liked that the cat runs around inside your inventory window. It occasionally looks quite nice, the cemetery at night particularly stood out to me. Other times it's some sort of digitized photograph background, it works sometimes, but I'm not really a fan of the effect overall.

I'm pretty disappointed with it since I had heard positive things about it before. Excavation of Hob's Barrow is more like what I thought this game would be.