Classic IF horror Anchorhead revised and illustrated

You may assume you’re product of stern stuff after beating Cuphead, however have you ever the bottle for Anchorhead? The Lovecraftian interactive fiction from 1998 “has been pretty consistently considered one of the greats of the noncommercial IF canon ever since”, Emily Short told us, and now it’s fancier than ever. Creator Michael Gentry has launched an ‘Illustrated Edition’ which, clearly, features a complete load of illustrations to go together with the textual content parser motion. This appears a high-quality time to go to a Massachusetts coastal city and get caught up in one thing horrible.

Anchorhead’s Illustrated Edition is rebuilt within the IF language Inform 7, additionally now packing 50-odd illustrations by Carlos Cara Àlvarez. Gentry has reworked the textual guts of Anchorhead too, including further puzzles, scenes, and background info and usually sprucing up the textual content with the good thing about all of the doing-good-words-well-from-your-brain-with-good-words-and-stuff abilities he’s honed over the previous 20 years.

You can purchase Anchorhead’s Illustrated Edition now for £7.19/€9.99/$9.99 by way of Steam and Itch. It’s on Windows, Mac, and Linux, although the Linux model isn’t on Steam simply but. For those that like feelies with their journey video games, Gentry additionally sells a physical pendant and map by way of his personal web site for $10.

You can nonetheless play ye olde Anchorhead in your browser, and the Interactive Fiction Database has a downloadable model if you happen to’d quite use your individual interpreter software program.