Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
A jam submission

The Haunting of Corbitt HouseView game page

A private eye investigates a haunted house.
Submitted by Arlan Wetherminster — 3 days, 13 hours before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

The Haunting of Corbitt House's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Spooky Greatness#351.8272.200

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Which category is your game in?

Le Grand Guignol (created in over 4 hrs)

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

I also got completely stymied on the courthouse--Bennett wouldn't let me into the records room, and there didn't seem to be anything I could interact with otherwise, there or at the other locations. I tried sneaking around the building, but couldn't.

I liked the prose of what I read, unfortunately I just had some trouble getting around and couldn't proceed.

Developer

Sorry for the trouble. To get into the Records Room, talk to the guard about both conversation topics. Once inside, search the "bound legal documents" for the will report and then search the file cabinets for the raid report. That's it.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thank you! I managed to get to the ending. The back half, when you get inside the house, was pretty strong. The puzzles had a nice urgency to them without being unfairly difficult, and the reason behind the haunting was delightfully creepy. Also I enjoyed the sort of... mild jump scare? moment at the church.

A couple of bugs that I noted:

  • In the storage room, the parser seemed to struggle with the locked door--kept getting the message "Which do you mean, the sturdy door or the side door?" which would loop if I tried to specify.
  • When I died in the master bedroom, the game softlocked/went to a blank screen instead of a game over, and I had to manually restart.
Developer

Awesome! Thanks for the bug report!

Submitted

Is it possible to actually get to the house?
I found [a raid report, excerpt 1-3, unpublished story], talked to everyone, and pretty sure I looked at everything, but I'm not able to get to the final destination.

Developer

In the courthouse you have to find 2 pieces of information. I dont have it open in front of me to tell you exactly what to search but it's another report in the courthouse. Sorry about that.