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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
Description
Assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environmentChallenging dilemmas dealing with powerfully charged emotional issuesProvocative psychological and adult-oriented themesBased on Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", one of the ten most reprinted...
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4.3/5

( 162 Reviews )

4.3

162 Reviews

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Product details
1995, The Dreamers Guild, ...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB HDD...
Time to beat
6 hMain
7.5 h Main + Sides
8 h Completionist
6.5 h All Styles
Description
  • Assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environment
  • Challenging dilemmas dealing with powerfully charged emotional issues
  • Provocative psychological and adult-oriented themes
  • Based on Harlan Ellison's short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream", one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language
  • Full digitised speech with over 40 different characters and state of the art animation
  • Harlan Ellison as the voice of the insane master computer, AM.

FIVE DAMNED SOULS: Buried deep within the centre of the earth, trapped in the bowels of an insane computer for the past hundred and nine years. Gorrister the suicidal loner, Benny the mutilated brute, Ellen the hysterical phobic, Nimdok the secretive sadist, Ted the cynical paranoid.

ONE CHALLENGE: The adventure plunges you into the tortured and hidden past of the five humans. Delve into their darkest fears. Outwit the Master Computer AM in a game of psychological warfare. Disturbing, compelling. An adventure you won't easily forget !!
Goodies
manual making of soundtrack short story by Harlan Ellison
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
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Time to beat
6 hMain
7.5 h Main + Sides
8 h Completionist
6.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.7.0)
Release date:
{{'1995-10-31T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Size:
611 MB

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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (13 November 2024)
  • Optimized ScummVM settings to improve performance
  • Added "Safe Mode" as an alternate executable for enhanced stability
  • Validated stability
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11
  • Added Cloud Saves support
Update 9 (18 January 2018)
  • Updated ScummVM to ScummVM 2.0.0 which also contains an update to Simple DirectMedia Layer 2 (SDL2). This should improve compatibility with a lot of monitor setups and resolve mouse issues
  • SAGA Engine Improvements
  • Fixed crash when using the 'Give' verb on an actor
  • Fixed Gorrister becoming invisible and stuck when reloading at mooring ring
  • Fixed the conversation panel background colour
Update (09 October 2017)
  • Fixed a language selection issue when attempting to install the non-English versions of the game via GOG Galaxy
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Posted on: November 5, 2013

Permonick

Verified owner

Games: 620 Reviews: 10

How could I miss this game?

I can remember, when I was kid, I always wanted to play this game, just because its name was so exciting... Maybe it was good I didnt, because it could have left some long-term issues... :D but I dont know why I didnt play it later and came back it to just now... and I can say, even with the game being quite old in those days, it is so amazing... the thrilling stories of every character, all the voice-acting and even the graphic, which is old but very nice for its days and last but not least all the hints taken from encyclopedies, Bible and other books... this is pure jewell for every person who loves adventure games, great story and horror atmosphere...


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Posted on: July 22, 2024

Classic

I lve this type classic single player games, no microtransacsions, offline and pure gaming, but due some glitch, i couldn't see the happy ending


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Posted on: September 21, 2025

threej_lc

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Games: 50 Reviews: 22

Mediocre game takes itself too seriously

First, the good: -The puzzles were by and large reasonable and entertaining. -Nostalgia 90's graphics -Decent voice acting -Each character is played in their own limited environment, which was a successful way to limit the traditional problem of "wandering around forever to figure out what's there before you actually play the game." The bad: -As others noted, its pretty buggy. I didn't encounter anything game breaking, but it did break immersion. -As others noted, the game really requires using a walkthrough to complete. Not because the puzzles are hard, but because there's game mechanics that are never explained in-game that dictate if you can complete the game. Example: That book you start with in your inventory? Don't ever look at it to see what it is, or you can't win. The ugly: The worst part of this game is that as much as it pitches itself as having "adult themes," it's really juvenile in its writing. It tries to be edgy, but only accomplishes a shallow pulling together of overused tropes. The characters never get a chance to feel relatable, and the redemption arc of each is so rushed as to feel forced and unbelievable. The story plays like an outline to be filled out later with actual depth and development, but never is. Throughout playing this game, I just found myself bored and disconnected, occasionally rolling my eyes at the cartoonish chaotic-evil villainy of AM, who also happens to be the only character with consistent, understandable motivation and personality.


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Edited on: October 31, 2025

Posted on: October 31, 2025

c_Canvas

Verified owner

Games: 43 Reviews: 1

Recent Update is terrible

was in the middle of my story run to lose access to loading saves, unable to change classsic launcher's autosave features, new buttons and menus slow the game considerably why did you do this and force an already installed game with almost no performance issues to change *edit, the patch notes also do not even say that the game overhaul was replaced with an emulator


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Posted on: October 23, 2016

OlgaH

Games: 42 Reviews: 14

OVERRATED

I've wanted to play this for a long time,. but right from the beginning, I was disappointed. Sure, there are some interesting elements but the puzzles are illogical, dead-ends multiple and voice acting pretty unimpressive. Not my cup of tea, even though I usually enjoy classics.


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