The Hound of Shadow is an abandoned adventure game set in UK developed by Eldritch Games and released by Electronic Arts in 1989. The Hound of Shadow runs on DOS.
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DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to play DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.
The Hound of Shadow review
Zero Magazine Issue 03 (1990) - "The Hound Of Shadow combines RPG with gothic horror in a game based on the macabre stories of HP Lovecraft. It's got a fashionable click-on-the-icons front-end, but the, erm, backend is old-fashioned text adventure. The way you build up your character, creates an involvement like no previous RPG game has done. Shame the game itself's just a plain old adventure that could have been written on an 8-bit machine. The early stages are pure page-turning. If it had better parsing and less of a feel that you're reading a book, then you'd be talking..."
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