Hugo's House of Horrors

A later release cover.

Hugo's House of Horrors is an adventure puzzle game developed and published by David Gray and released for MS-DOS on 1990-01-01 and later ported to Windows. It uses a game engine similar to those used by Sierra On-Line years earlier. It is the first game in the Hugo series of games and followed by by Hugo II: Whodunit? The story is rather typical: the girlfriend of Hugo has been kidnapped and taken into a mansion. The game uses a haunted house theme with various Halloween and horror movie tropes.

David Gray began programming Hugo's House of Horrors in 1989 writing in Quick C, and drawing graphics in PC Paintbrush.

I believe my mother got me this game at a shareware game swap. I played the game so much that I not only beat it, but ended up writing a hand-written walk-though, full script, and documented various game bugs.

Status

I do not own the game, but I have beaten the game with a full score, without hints.

Review

• Overall: 3/10
• Best Version: DOS

Good

• The game gives a charming adventure with decent puzzles.
• I like the trivia section which includes references to Narnia and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Bad

• The artwork and sound was very dated (King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! came out the same year!).
• The story is lacking, and the theme is tired.
• The game is too short.
• There are a couple bugs in the game that can be exploited.

Ugly

• Nothing really.

Media

Maps

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  Dr. Hammerstein's house.

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  Beneath the house.

Screenshots

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  Title screen.

Design Notes

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  Design notes.

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  Design notes.

Videos

• youtube.com/watch?v=UijhBRheB8k - Longplay.

Download

This is all of the shareware versions of the Hugo games I could find including Hugo's House of Horrors for DOS and Windows. You can still buy the game from the author.

• Download (Info) - All shareware versions.

Links

       

• shikadi.net/moddingwiki/Hugo%27s_House_of_Horrors - ModdingWiki.