You'll have to avoid a few enemies while you search for items, such as crazy black cats and the occasional hand popping out of the floor. You use the arrow keys to move but your character only walks diagonally, forcing you to remember that pressing down moves you down-right, left moves you down-left, etc. The game's music and visuals are actually quite nice, but the controls take some time getting used to. The corporate tie-ins are unobtrusive and simply give you the option of going to K-Mart's website to buy costumes featured in the game. The fun part is you get to choose from eighteen different playable characters, each with a unique Halloween costume. Along the way you'll find several other items you can trade to monsters in exchange for passage through locked gates. Trapped inside a haunted house you must hunt for keys to unlock doors that lead outside. K-Mart Haunted House is a short isometric flash adventure game just begging to be played around Halloween time. They will move directly towards Beethro (if able) thereby causing them to line up for a smiting! However, things gradually get more difficult as more enemies are introduced, from roach queens, which run away and birth new roaches every 30 turns, to the Slayer, a powerful opponent equal in ability to Beethro. The game starts off easily with the only enemies being roaches. Each time you move all enemies on the screen also move. Hitting an enemy causes them to vanish in a shower of blood and debris. It is actually the sequel to the critically acclaimed DROD: King Dugan's Dungeon, and both were created by Caravel Games.ĭeadly Rooms of Death is a turn-based puzzle game one turn being the amount of time it takes Beethro, the central character, to move one square or to swing his sword by 45 degrees. "Why's everybody gotta leave piles of skulls lying around? It's depressing." - Beethro Budkinĭeadly Rooms of Death: Journey to Rooted Hold is a downloadable game (for Windows, Mac, or Linux*) and very much a puzzle game, but unlike any other you may have played before. Cheers! =)īy the way, rumor has it there's an Exmortis 3 on the horizon. My sincere thanks and appreciation go out to Benny for coming through in such short notice so that we all might enjoy something new from him this Halloween. The game is not very difficult so you shouldn't have any trouble getting through this one on your own. In addition to the visual stimuli (from which you're sure to get a jump or two) there is a bit of a narrative that unfolds as well. If you have played either of Ben's other horror-genre interactive narratives, Exmortis and Exmortis 2, then you may already know what to expect. Purgatorium is a short and creepy point-and-click escape-the-room game with some rather horrific graphic visuals nestled inside. By solving the anagram puzzle you were rewarded with a new holiday stylesheet (I've made it so everyone has it now) and then presented with Purgatorium, a brand new game from Exmortis author, Ben Leffler, that was created especially for Casual Gameplay. Clicking on the icon took you to a page on which a few scrabble tiles lay. In case you missed it, a few days ago I posted a rather mysterious entry with little more than some Lorem Ipsum text and a hidden cipher.
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