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The Charnel House Trilogy

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The Charnel House Trilogy

Apr 16, 2015

Main game

3.50 average rating based on 28 ratings

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Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub. With art by Ivan Ulyanov and Ben Chandler, and music by Jack de Quidt, nervous_testpilot and Bryan Henderson.
Developers
Owl Cave
Publishers
Owl Cave
Platforms
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Point-and-click
Themes
Horror, Mystery
Steam
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Release Dates
Apr 16, 2015 (Worldwide)
PC (Microsoft Windows)
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User Stats
282
In Collection
9
Wish Listed
2
Playing
163
Backlogged
How Long Is The Charnel House Trilogy?
Main + extras: 2.3 hours
100% completion: 2.3 hours
Total completions: 2
Taffer
Taffer gave Oct 9, 2023
Taffer gave Oct 9, 2023
Taffer's review of The Charnel House Trilogy

It's a point and click adventure. It advertises itself as three games in one; it's not, it's one continuous story with three 'chapters', two of which have you controlling the same character, and all it is is an extended introduction for something that the outro promises will come in 2016, the year after the game was released, that as of right now still hasn't materialized. I found the character you spend most of the game with rather unlikable. The setting for the game's second and third parts is a confusing metaphysical conduit of the "brings your personalized inner demons to life" variety which ended up reading largely like a disguised self-therapy session for the writer. At least the music they furnished the game with is pretty good, which fittingly enough was the main reason I pushed myself to play it, to better contextualize a song from it I had picked out for a VGM list channel I'm running.

mantsm
mantsm updated their status Aug 5, 2023
mantsm updated their status Aug 5, 2023

Played this game, because I saw somewhere a recommendation for simillar games to Cat Lady. I guess I see some similaries. Interesting idea, good story and short game, which you can complete in 2 hours. In general I would have loved if this game would have went deeper into the lore, psychology and with more explanations and tying loose ends, but it is what it is. Not worth the full price, but for few € it does introduce an interesting lore.