Poltergeist Treasure

Poltergeist Treasure

Stand Off Software · 2018 · Adventure, Indie

PC
6 user reviews83% · 6
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About Poltergeist Treasure

Poltergeist Treasure is an absurdist comedy point & click adventure game set in the strange (and often silly) magical land of Artovya, but actually just in a forest.

As the brave knight Sir Typhil of Creulor continues his quest to bring a unicorn to the castle and be crowned king, he finds himself trapped in a haunted forest by a malevolent ghost.


As with all of the games in the series, Poltergeist Treasure is mainly a point & click adventure, but with elements of other types of games present as well. In this episode, a section of the game is a top-down stealth game.

As stated immediately above, this is a point & click adventure game and thus contains the standard compliment of point & click adventure game features including:
  • Walking around from place to place by pointing and clicking!
  • Talking to NPC's by choosing dialog options and receiving witty responses!
  • Picking up everything that isn't nailed down and putting it in your inventory!
  • Using your inventory items on objects or people in the world in order to solve puzzles!
  • Using your inventory items on other inventory items in order to solve puzzles!
  • Using your inventory items on absolutely everything you see because you're stuck on this puzzle and can't figure out what to do!
  • Literally slapping yourself in the face because that puzzle solution was so obvious and yet it took you 20 minutes to figure it out!

Also, as already stated, a portion of the game is a top-down stealth game, and as such contains the following features:
  • Walk around and avoid obstacles, some of which are moving!
  • um... yeah... that's pretty much all the features of a top-down stealth game.

While a stand-alone game in its own right, this game continues the over-arching story from Unicorn Dungeon:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/813250/Unicorn_Dungeon/

Also see the sequels:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/966730/Leprechaun_Shadow/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1349640/Alien_Function/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1596080/Vagabond_Starship/

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the adventure portions as charming, witty, and visually polished with excellent voice acting reminiscent of classic point-and-click games like King's Quest. However, the game is severely hampered by a mandatory stealth dungeon section featuring unresponsive controls (where WASD keys rotate the character rather than move in cardinal directions), punishing difficulty with no checkpoints or healing, and instant-death mechanics that reset progress to the beginning—a design choice players find frustrating and outdated.

Not recommended Oct 6, 2019
At the contrary of Unicorn Treasures, this time I cannot save the game, despite the price. This time the "dungeon" gameplay really gone over my patience. It's simply bad done and boring. I didn't finish this game: I left it there. Wasting my time in that dungeon is not in the list of stuffs I am willing to do. Why in a topdown view the A and D buttons should turn the character left and right and W and S should make it go ahead and back? It not a racing game! Why not instead making a simple A goes left, W goes up, D goes right and S goes down? And after they'd put such bad input set, they even expect you to be very precise in your moves. Otherwise you get a sure hit (or even two), and there are no heals or checkpoints. Also obviously the dungeon is enough long and... why not? Hitboxes are even bugged! So why you expect precision from the player, in a dungeon path "trial and error" with no checkpoints and heals, if you're unable to make a precise input set and a precise hitbox? So I'm sorry, but the nice and funny "point and click" section of this game, and its price, this time (at the contrary of Unicorn Dungeon) can't save the whole game. Dungeon section gameplay is far TOO …
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Recommended Nov 24, 2020
The adventure portions are top notch, and filled with great jokes. The stealth dungeon portion? Well, the game takes pity on you at a certain point and makes it easier, so there's that?
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 18, 2020
Wow, I can't believe this game was such a low price. I haven't finished but am thoroughly enjoying this Point and Click Retro -style game reminiscent of the original Kings Quest or Quest for Glory adventure games (this has with much better graphics) The graphics are very good as are the sound and music. I am particularly enjoying the voice acting! Definitely worth a purchase if you, too, love and appreciate the older style P&C adventure games.
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Not recommended May 6, 2023
Amusing Pn'C totally wrecked by an arcade maze of the worst making imaginable, as if adding mazes - the lamest form of puzzle - to an adventure wasn't bad enough. So it's a maze, a downer by nature, and it's full of enemies that kill you, and death resets the entire thing and puts you back at the beginning. As poor and obsolete a design as it is, that's not the worst part. Worst are the controls, with keys not matching the screen directions but the current orientation of the avatar. A disastrous scheme briefly experimented in the early 80s, quickly declared a crime against humanity by multiple La Hague courts, and banned by an entire generation raised with taste and common sense. In short, the enemy is not the maze itself, or its fauna; it's your own keyboard. The tool is not the solution, it's the problem. Imagine planting a hammer into a wall by striking it with a nail... It makes about as much sense. For that heresy, the UI gets a rating of 0/10. With no options for sensible controls, I decided to quit, as I value my leisure time. However, I read there is an easy mode, magnanimously granted if you die often enough. It takes a lot of suicides, wastes a lot of time to get there…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 26, 2023
This game made me laugh and weep. Memorable and charming. Every title in the series has a really challenging switch to another genre. This time it is a stealth section. The feeling i got after finally beating it was really satisfying, something i often miss with most modern games.
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Recommended Dec 18, 2022
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