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Vampire Castle

by Mike Bassman

1980

(based on 1 rating)
Estimated play time: 30 minutes (based on 1 vote)
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About the Story

You are locked in a castle. A sign says “The Vampire Wakes at Midnight”. Will you manage to defeat your adversary?

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Only for the historians, June 29, 2025

A short and simple game about killing Dracula before midnight.

This was my first text adventure and it surely did not give young me a good impression of the IF genre. It's a very simple game that nonetheless manages to score “cruel” on the fairness scale, as you can inadventently get into a walking dead state by doing very reasonable actions. Its only redeeming value for me is that it was one of my first successful reverse engineering attempts, to which the simple GWBASIC code of the DOS version lends well.

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2 Off-Site Reviews

Renga in Blue
> a quite straightforward and easy game
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Gaming After 40
> I can't really recommend playing Vampire Castle, because while the game itself isn't difficult, getting it to run to completion was a serious meta-adventure
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