Download The Hound of Shadow (DOS) game

Genres:

adventure, interactive fiction

released in:

1989

publisher:

Electronic Arts

developer:

Eldritch Games

themes:

lovecraftian, horror, urban setting

keywords:

Europe, UK

Game modes:

single-player

abandonware

what is abandonware?

Platforms

DOS

Rating

3.76 / 5.00 (29 votes)

Share your love for this game

The Hound of Shadow abandonware downloads

Download The Hound of Shadow

The Hound of Shadow manual

Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

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..."

More information on The Hound of Shadow

Status: abandonware
Input: mouse
Abandonware DOS views: 9339

Related sites

Search The Hound of Shadow on Mobygames

Comments

Write a comment
Have you ever played The Hound of Shadow? Did you like it? Did you hate it? Write something about it: share your experience, give us hints on how to properly run this game or simply say how much you loved it.