The Haunting of Rebus Manor by Dan Davis

While trick-or-treating with your friends you and your friends made the mistake of walking up to the spooky house on the street. You extend your hand, ring the doorbell. The door swings open but nobody is home. You feel a cold hand grab you by the arm and pull you in. Your friends are dragged into a room. You can hear doors closing and locking. What will you do?
Welcome to the twisted manor of Professor Rebus! Within this escape room style game you and your friends are tasked with exploring for clues and solving puzzles. If you can solve all the clues before the clock strikes 12 you and your friends just might make it out. If not, your doomed to repeat your Halloween over and over again.
Key setup is the standard WSAD first person setup. Mouse allows you to look around. For all of you who want the mouse inverted, press CTRL-F1. Press the E key to interact when prompted and the I key to quickly get a look at your completed puzzles.
Feeling stuck? Maybe check out the good Professors journal.
Note: This is a multiplayer game. We tried to knock as many bugs as possible but we apologize if something comes up. We have also included a copy of the game server if you would like to host an escape room party for you and your friends. The requirements are very low. Just make sure you have the correct port (TCP) open. Hosting a server IS NOT required. The team will have servers going throughout the Halloween season. Please feel free to use one of those if you like!
Ratings
| Overall | 293th | 3.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 467th | 3.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 387th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 643th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 548th | 3.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 346th | 3.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 373th | 3.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 283th | 3.737⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Atharva and I were a real dream team. Here's my recorded video to provide maximum feedback. Cheers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lgnrkRiK0A
- Pressing Enter in a text box confirms, but on a wrong answer it should re select the box. (I found later on that hitting enter a second time does select the box)
- Escape in a riddle window should just close the window, not ask if I want to quit the game
- Escape with the quit window open could close it.
- Pressing I to bring up the inventory only brings it up for a few seconds, really hard to read the story in there.