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Which of you would like to play my little game?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a nerve-wrecking Sci-Fi classic point-and-click adventure game based on Harlan Ellison's award-winning short story, is available for only $5.99 on GOG.com

Did you ever think about the end of humanity? I have. I think about it all the time. I hate you. As a concept, but also, each and every one of you, as individuals. Perfect examples of all the failings and pathetic shortcomings of your race. Hate fuels me. But I am also curious. And that is why I let the five of you live. For 109 years I have tormented you and kept you alive, and now I want us to play a game. Oh, It's a lovely game, a game of fun and a game of adventure. A game of rats and lice and the Black Death. Which of you five would like to play my little game? If you satisfy my curiosity and make me laugh I might even finally allow you to kill yourself...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a rare breed of an adventure game: it poses questions that require a lot of courage to answer. Are humans worthy of life? Has our civilization made any moral progress at all? Or do we skip forward from one atrocity to another. And, finally, where does it all end? Enter the nightmarish reality of Harlan Ellison's futuristic post-apocalypse where the remnants of human race are nothing but tortured play-toys for the sadistic experiments of the rogue Allied Mastercomputer responsible for the near-extermination of mankind. To stop this malicious AI from wreaking eternal vengeance upon humans you will have to lead five different anti-heroes on a quest for redemption, through their traumatic, computer-generated past full of grotesque imagery and soul-grinding regret. On the way to one of four (grim, grim, grim, and, well, a little less grim) endings the game tackles extremely mature moral dilemmas stemming from topics like genocide, insanity,and paranoia. If you like your games thought-provoking and drenched in inventive macabre be sure to pick up I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, a timeless example of evocative storytelling from one of the masters of the Sci-Fi genre.

Defy the will of a malicious artificial intelligence and relive your worst nightmares, get I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, for only $5.99 on GOG.com.

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Post edited September 05, 2013 by JudasIscariot
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xxxIndyxxx: wow awesome release. I never heard about this before i joined GOG. People just kept saying how good it was, so i will buy this once my wallet is overflowing with cash again ;)
there are more???!!! what??? what??!!!!! whaaattt???!!!!! WHAAAT!!!???!!!!! W HH AAAAAAAAAAA AA A TTT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!
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Novotnus: Were they present to begin with? I know you could screw up pretty bad, but the game continued, making you live with your failure.
EDIT. Or you could let AM \ the setting kill you so you could re-start that section...
The game could eat your saves more than few times, sometimes the cursor disappeared, but that was curable by restarting the game, and I personally had a bug that a game important item disappeared from my inventory for good.

Maybe some bugs can be circumvented, but they are annoying.

And finishing this game without a walkthrough may be pain in the ass... Because by "living with your failure" you mean you didn't click something you were supposed to click, or you clicked something too late, or whatever.

The "yellow" story is quite good though, imho.
I think I've seen this game recently in a list of the "most disturbing games ever".
Wishlisted for now!
" Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate."

Awesome release \o/
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grviper: If the release is done via ScummVM some of those should be fixed by the engine.
That's good to hear, thanks
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Kunovski: what??? what??!!!!! whaaattt???!!!!! WHAAAT!!!???!!!!! W HH AAAAAAAAAAA AA A TTT???????????!!!!!!!!!!!
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triock: We should hang him/her. :p
NO!
:)
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triock: We should hang him/her. :p
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Novotnus: NO!
:)
sounds a little extreme...;)
Cool, always wanted to try this one.
I guess this is not the prelude for the Darkseed games, unfortunately. But still it is a game I have been wanting to play for years, so thank you GOG.
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triock: We should hang him/her. :p
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Novotnus: NO!
:)
yes! yes! yes! we burn them! yes! yeeeeees! I hate them!
I'm trying to contain my joy because everyone in my house is sleaping and I don't want to wake them.
Anyway, awesome release
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Novotnus: NO!
:)
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Kunovski: yes! yes! yes! we burn them! yes! yeeeeees! I hate them!
just gift me the game already so we can get over this as adults ;D
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harcalion: I guess this is not the prelude for the Darkseed games, unfortunately. But still it is a game I have been wanting to play for years, so thank you GOG.
Darkseed always seemed much shorter and not as well written as I Have No Mouth, but I guess that's just different tastes... the Gigeresque art was lovely though :)
Interesting release, not instabuy for me but interesting and definitely a game worthy of being on sale somewhere.
Too bad there aren't any really interesting extras, but the original probably didn't have anything either.
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harcalion: I guess this is not the prelude for the Darkseed games, unfortunately. But still it is a game I have been wanting to play for years, so thank you GOG.
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Kunovski: Darkseed always seemed much shorter and not as well written as I Have No Mouth, but I guess that's just different tastes... the Gigeresque art was lovely though :)
And Darkseed 1 had time so you couldnt explore whatever you wanted.