Phantasmagoria
Master storyteller Roberta Williams challenges you to experience the ultimate interactive nightmare.
Phantasmagoria is an adventure developed by Infini Entertainment Technology, released 1 August 1995 on Sega Saturn, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Phantasmagoria is
Phantasmagoria is an adventure game developed by Infini Entertainment Technology and released in 1995. It was published by Activision. It is available on Sega Saturn, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Sierra's Creative Interpreter.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Phantasmagoria is a point-and-click adventure horror video game designed by Roberta Williams for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows and released by Sierra On-Line on August 24, 1995. It tells the story of Adrienne Delaney, a writer who moves into a remote mansion and finds herself terrorized by supernatural forces. It was made at the peak of popularity for interactive movie games and features live-action actors and footage, both during cinematic scenes and within the three-dimensionally rendered environments of the game itself. It was noted for its violence and sexual content.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Phantasmagoria holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.0 GHz, 256 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Phantasmagoria launched on 1 August 1995, within three weeks of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Castlevania: Dracula X, The King of Fighters '95 and Apache. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Castlevania: Dracula X, The King of Fighters '95, Apache.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Phantasmagoria yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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