House of Hell is Tin Man Games's second bite at the Fighting Fantasy cherry, and it's similar in setting and tone to Blood of the Zombies - the release that ushered in a new era of FF under Tin Man's digital stewardship.
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Text adventures were some of the earliest forms of video games, but we’ve come a long way since Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure. Some of today’s surviving pockets of the genre are visual novels and gamebooks — two very niche types of games that most people associate with tons of reading. They cringe at the idea and then go peruse libraries in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Despite their name, these games aren’t all about text. Interactive fiction is perhaps a better classification. That misconception can hurt sales, so manipulating the genre to emphasize its versatility and flexibility could be the key to a more successful future.
One of the earliest games I played was Zork I on a Commodore 64 (yes, I'm old). Nice to see the genre making a bit of a comeback.
