Wayward Manor
Moonshark, Inc. · 2014 · Adventure, Casual, Indie, Puzzle, Horror
PC
Mixed58% · 26 📉 Recent reviews down 39%
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About Wayward Manor
Wayward Manor invites you to jump into the afterlife of a disgruntled ghost, trying to reclaim his house from its newfound owners. Set in the 1920s, this puzzle/adventure game transports players to an era of dark screwball comedy where they must unlock the secrets of a twisted mansion. Players will discover the quirks of Wayward Manor’s unwelcome guests and choose how to prey on their darkest fears.
Story
The Budds, a dysfunctional family of misfits and eccentrics, have brought their own abysmal possessions into your humble abode and stifled your power. Each level is a playground for scares where players earn fear to take back control of the room. If you want free reign over your mansion once again, you must drive the Budds mad with fear using only your imagination and their hideous belongings.
History
What started as a Lego prototype that The Odd Gentlemen and Neil Gaiman played together one afternoon, soon became a unique collaboration to tell a story through a nonlinear puzzle/adventure game hybrid, where the player learns about the characters and world through their observations and discovery. First launched on the website WhoHauntsNeil.com, Wayward Manor has been slowly unveiling its story and world to a whole new audience. Wayward Manor is Neil Gaiman’s first foray into video games.
Features
● Discover 9 quirky inhabitants each with their own desires, fears, and anxieties.
● Possess ghastly furnishings to manipulate the Budds into dire consequences.
● Level up as you absorb fear to take control of each room
● Pleasantly dark tone reminiscent of old Hollywood whodunit mysteries.
● Five floors, each filled with new items to posses and new ways to terrify.
● Find secret scares and multiple solutions to every puzzle
● Musically themed characters each represented by their own instrument.
● A story crafted and narrated by Neil Gaiman
● Featuring art from the Eisner award winning artist Chuck BB
Story
The Budds, a dysfunctional family of misfits and eccentrics, have brought their own abysmal possessions into your humble abode and stifled your power. Each level is a playground for scares where players earn fear to take back control of the room. If you want free reign over your mansion once again, you must drive the Budds mad with fear using only your imagination and their hideous belongings.
History
What started as a Lego prototype that The Odd Gentlemen and Neil Gaiman played together one afternoon, soon became a unique collaboration to tell a story through a nonlinear puzzle/adventure game hybrid, where the player learns about the characters and world through their observations and discovery. First launched on the website WhoHauntsNeil.com, Wayward Manor has been slowly unveiling its story and world to a whole new audience. Wayward Manor is Neil Gaiman’s first foray into video games.
Features
● Discover 9 quirky inhabitants each with their own desires, fears, and anxieties.
● Possess ghastly furnishings to manipulate the Budds into dire consequences.
● Level up as you absorb fear to take control of each room
● Pleasantly dark tone reminiscent of old Hollywood whodunit mysteries.
● Five floors, each filled with new items to posses and new ways to terrify.
● Find secret scares and multiple solutions to every puzzle
● Musically themed characters each represented by their own instrument.
● A story crafted and narrated by Neil Gaiman
● Featuring art from the Eisner award winning artist Chuck BB
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It's a disgrace, to be honest. I backed this game because I love Neil Gaiman and he promised us this would be amazing. Well, it's not. It's shallow and boring and repetitive and makes no sense at all.6 found this helpful
it was a tiresome, already outdated, poorly designed, uncomfortable arcade. everything in it was terrible.2 found this helpful
Playing this game feels like a chore.
The best part of the game is Neil Gaiman's narration at the very start. The game itself, sorry to say, is rather boring.
It's fun game and dialogues are hilarious. Character designs are unlikable and ugly though.
Tags: Clicker - Slow Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Simple one-screen tabletported hotspot interaction. Interactivity suffers. Unengaging and lacks immersion and fun factor. Wayward manner is a tablety-feeling clicker game in which you have to guess the proper order in which to activate several on screen hotspots so as to create a spooky chain reaction to scare a NPC. The lack of interactivity, strict solutions and somewhat cryptic way in which the hotspots influence the environment and the NPC makes the experience feel very detached. The game quickly becomes tiresome as you attempt to brute force yourself out of the puzzles and often get stuck. Not a very fun title
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