The Charnel House Trilogy

Witness The Charnel House Trilogy, the chronicle of one fateful night aboard a train bound for Augur Peak. Three thrilling, horrifying adventure games in one, from the depths of the Sepulchre, starring Madeleine Roux, Peter Willington, Jonathan Grier, Jim Sterling, and Ben Chandler as Grub.

The Charnel House Trilogy is a adventure, horror and point & click game developed and published by Owl Cave.
Released on April 16th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 661 reviews of which 530 were positive and 131 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 5.00€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Charnel House Trilogy into these genres:

Adventure Horror Point & Click Indie Psychological Horror Pixel Graphics Mystery Noir Short Female Protagonist Singleplayer Story Rich 2D Atmospheric

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP SP 3 / Vista / 7 / 8
Processor: 1 GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: Integrated Graphics (512MB VRAM and above)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible.

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Such a great point & click game. I finally got around playing this game since I bought it a decade ago (2016 I just checked my purchase history!). I'll start by saying this game has a strong narrative and not so convoluted puzzles. Not once did I feel like having to randomly combine items to progress or trying to solve some mind-boggling puzzles that required me to look up a guide. The story was creepy and full of lore and great characters. The voice acting was superb (Jim Sterling voiced this!), plus the game allows you to manually save in case you're one of those achievement hunters. There's supposedly a sequel to this game with how they ended it but it's currently stuck in a development hell for years, plus the developer himself is sick in real life. So let's pray and hope for the best...

Dec. 2024

Story was okay. Probably could have skipped the very short middle story, it didn't add much. Had enough of the inventory collecting and puzzles of where to put something to make it a quick P&C romp. Get it on sale for sure.

Dec. 2024

I enjoyed this horror-themed point-and-click adventure game. It consists of three chapters that each take about an hour to complete. The puzzles are VERY straightforward, so I wouldn't recommend it for people who are looking for a challenge. But the story is creepy (especially the third chapter) and the voice acting is above average. Overall the game is quite engaging and its a nice way to spend an afternoon. It ends with a cliffhanger, and the sequel was never released, so skip this one if you want closure. Definitely worth it if you get it on sale. 6/10.

Aug. 2024

So far, so weird. The setting seems to be a nebulous "other" space -- the first third is set in NYC but for some reason the very American protagonist uses British slang ("gone eight" and "gone midnight" and "trolley"), everyone around the protagonist is British or has a very British name, the emergency lights are all blue like in the UK, and she takes a cab to an abandoned train station out in the middle of what appear to be the English moorcountry... And it just gets more incongruous from there. E.G.: A Scottish man who is apparently a native of a New England island. It's well-done and very atmospheric, but it feels like something written by a Brit who'd never been to the States. Also, for what it's worth -- this is a pretty short game that evidently ends on a cliffhanger. It was released in 2015, it ends with the promise of further adventures in 2016, but despite his repeated assurances that the sequel is coming, the creator left game development years ago, they lost their publisher, and his last assurance was in a random Steam thread in 2020. :/ So don't hold your breath.

July 2024

Ever looked into the Steam forums under various threads to find out if you could get some really great recommendations? This is how I have found The Charnel House Trilogy . I was going through a lot of comments on classic point & click adventure game suggestions as next games to be played (in fact, some referred to these as must-have). So, here we are, looking at a game that has pixelated graphics, great voice acting; something that is currently very, very (I mean very) cheap and something that - with its only 3 chapters - doesn't take very long to complete. The 3 episodes available can be played in any order and they will take around 2 hours to complete (all achievements included). What starts out as a short chapter with Alex being at home in the evening and making sure she is prepared for a journey quickly turns into the supernatural with strange fellows on a train such as an all-too-familiar bartender, a somewhat absent-minded conductor and some weird people such as the silent but at the same time terrifying guy occupying 2-C. Great episodes with some twists and definitely not your usual endings. Make sure to check it out if you 1) like pixelated adventure games 2) are fine with playing something out-of-the-ordinary and in case you 3) have played anything where Wadjet Eye Games , Clifftop Games , Wormwood Studios or Cloak and Dagger Games had been involved.

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5.00€

7.6

530

131

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Developer

Owl Cave

Publisher

Owl Cave

Release 16 Apr 2015

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