Amityville: Haunted House

A free retro horror point-and-click. You moved your family into a house that was far too cheap. Twenty-eight nights, four endings, and one of them is not yours.

A free retro horror point-and-click adventure. No ads, no account, no purchases.

112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, 1974. The house was far too cheap, and you moved your family in anyway. Something in this house has been counting for a long time. It is one short.

TOUCH ANYTHING Every room is a picture, and everything in it can be touched: the lamp, the stain on the boards, the crucifix on the wall. Look at it, listen to it, take it, break it. The house answers in a few lines of cold prose. Your first look at anything is answered at once. What you do next, with whatever you are carrying and whatever you have already broken, is written the moment somebody first does it, and kept for every player after. The house answers what you actually did.

THE STORY The last tenant kept a ledger. It does not count nights. You have twenty-eight days to learn what it counts, who kept the count, and what happens when it is complete.

• Five acts, and a night falls when the story moves, not when a timer runs out
• Four endings. Three you choose. One the house chooses for you
• Thirteen rooms and no map: every way on, a doorway, a hatch, a gap, carries a small arrow on the picture
• A house that can grow: when a player's deed breaks open a new passage, that room stays for everyone who comes after
• Evidence to carry, an axe to take or leave, and a front door you can walk out of whenever you like, if you can live with that
• 1980s home-computer pixel art, dithered and lamplit, with a soundtrack that changes with the room and the hour
• Six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
• The game saves itself on every turn

Made for the phone. The picture fills the top of the screen and the words sit under your thumb. A tap names a thing, and nothing happens until you choose what to do with it.

A NOTE ON THE SUBJECT This is fiction, inspired by a case that is a matter of public record. It names no real person and re-enacts nothing that happened to them.

It is meant to unsettle. If that is not what you are after, this is the wrong game.