5 Days a Stranger
5 Days a Stranger is the first game in horror-adventure series by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. Player controls Trilby, a master cat burglar, who gets trapped inside seemingly abandoned manor. Soon he finds out there…
5 Days a Stranger is an adventure developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, released 22 September 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What 5 Days a Stranger is
5 Days a Stranger is an adventure game developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw and released in 2003. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Adventure Game Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Get in, get the loot, get out... that's how it usually goes for master cat burglar Trilby. But after he breaks into the supposedly vacated country manor erstwhile of the aristocratic DeFoe family, he quickly finds that things are not that simple. Together with a group of strangers, he finds himself imprisoned by some invisible intelligence. A force prepared to do anything to keep them there.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
5 Days a Stranger launched on 22 September 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans and Lineage II.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Age of Mythology: The Titans, Lineage II.
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