Return to Crystal Lake

I had hoped to submit this game into the 2021 IF/COMP competition.  However, life changed and my time to dedicate towards ensuring it 100% bug-free was replaced with a tour schedule.  No worries, the game is complete, and I’ve not been able to find any issues for some time.  Not to say it’s perfect, but as far as I can tell it runs exactly as intended.  I will update the game as/if I find bugs.  But no worries.  The game is very stable and should play fine without issue.

The game is themed around the Friday the 13th movies.  Your goal is to put an end to the Crystal Lake curse and rid the surrounding woods of Jason Voorhees.  It’s a very large game with a clever story line, and will take quite some time to complete as there are many room, riddles and puzzles.  I feel it flows very well and keeps the player well-submerged.  Hopefully no boring moments.

It is a graphic and audio filled game, providing visuals and audio for rooms, objects, clues, etc.  It’s a very large game (the .zip is 443MB) and it does load large files as it plays.  Unfortunately, it will only run under Windows (W7 or later.)  I am working to port it to Apple and will certainly make it available if I am successful.  Unfortunately, I don’t have the know-how to port it to any other console.

Be prepared to dedicate a few good hours to solve it.  If you’re looking for a  good text adventure challenge, give this a try.

It was a labor of love and a biproduct of the Covid downtime.  Many hours went into making it.  Although it won’t please everyone, I hope most text-adventure folks will thoroughly dig it. 

 Enjoy!