DOS adventure game, CGA/EGA, horror

[Magic]

I'm looking for an old PC DOS game from a demo/shareware disk (definitely not for windows), which was on 1 floppy (720 KB I think). I don't know the name (maybe "Python" ? but that may be completely wrong).
It is old, I played it when I played Kings Quest 1-4.

It's an adventure game with CGA or maybe EGA graphics (in the PC era with Intel 80286, 10 Mhz), you start with the title screen showing the entrance to some manor.

It was definitely a horror game with good atmosphere and scary screens (all 2D, nothing in 3D). You could not do much, except clicking from room to room and sometimes interact with objects. You could not see your own avatar, like in Kings Quest, Indy, Space Quest ...
The manor is deserted, you find a dead body in one room, you can walk through the house into the garden. The game is hard, you can die and the game is over instantly. No save option!

It was not something famous like Maniac Mansion, Alone in the dark ....

[wardrich]

<img src="http://www.myabandonware.com/media/capt ... ess_11.png">

Last Half of Darkness, maybe? Though it does have save/load, you may not have had it configured properly to save/load thus making you think it didn't have that option.

[Magic]

Sorry, no. As far as I remember there were no on screen controls like in the screenshot you posted. I'm quite sure that the most of the screen was used for the current scene.

[wardrich]

<img src="http://www.myabandonware.com/media/capt ... ited_3.png">
The Uninvited?

or

<img src="http://www.myabandonware.com/media/capt ... gate_2.gif">
Shadowgate?

**Note that these games are WAY better on the NES

[dosraider]

The game description and more specific the dead one kinda sounds to me as Déja vu.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dj-vu-a-n ... comes-true

[wardrich]

The game description and more specific the dead one kinda sounds to me as Déja vu.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dj-vu-a-n ... comes-true

Lol, the only game of the like that I didn't mention


I forgot you could take a cab to visit different houses... though I'm not sure if you were able to go in the backyard of any of them.

[Magic]

hmm, no. The graphics style was very different from "The uninvited" and there were no on screen controls and things like an inventory.

The gfx were more fuzzy no sharp edges.

It may be that the game was from a french company. The language of the game was definitely english.

[wardrich]

Can you do your best to whip up an MSPaint drawing of what you remember? Save it as a jpeg and upload to imageshack.us or equivalent if you need somewhere to host the image.

[Magic]

The graphic of that shadowgate screenshot comes near, the GFX of the game above is very different in comparison the game I'm looking for.

I only remember 3 screens:

The title screen shows the manor entrance, I think a gate and the house in the background.

One of the first screens (if the version I played was not some shareware version that started in the middle of the game!) showed a dead body lying in the background, the screens were all very dark and atmospheric.

The last screen I remember was the garden with a well, that has little or no water in it. You can climb down and then you're surrounded by darkness. If you don't do the right thing here (by entering text like in Space Quest) you die instantly.

[anmattos]

I'm looking for an old PC DOS game from a demo/shareware disk (definitely not for windows), which was on 1 floppy (720 KB I think). I don't know the name (maybe "Python" ? but that may be completely wrong).
It is old, I played it when I played Kings Quest 1-4.

It's an adventure game with CGA or maybe EGA graphics (in the PC era with Intel 80286, 10 Mhz), you start with the title screen showing the entrance to some manor.

It was definitely a horror game with good atmosphere and scary screens (all 2D, nothing in 3D). You could not do much, except clicking from room to room and sometimes interact with objects. You could not see your own avatar, like in Kings Quest, Indy, Space Quest ...
The manor is deserted, you find a dead body in one room, you can walk through the house into the garden. The game is hard, you can die and the game is over instantly. No save option!

It was not something famous like Maniac Mansion, Alone in the dark ....

I'm looking for that game too. Did you find it?

[anmattos]

Anyone could help find that game?

[Swiftcutter]

Transylvania?
Or something like it?

[anmattos]

Transylvania?
Or something like it?

Hello,

It is not. Is was very similar to Last Half of Darkness in theme and fell, but as far as I remember there were no menus on the sides. The graphics were simpler and ocuppied the whole screen...

I would guess that it is actually Last Half of Darkness but rendered in CGA mode, but infortunately I could not find this version anywhere. The graph would be more like Transylvania...