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ADVENTURE / WEB-NATIVE

Shadow of the Keening Star.

Investigate an abandoned house through a text-based adventure after a letter sends you searching for a missing uncle.

Web-nativeKeyboard
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Opens the project’s game host.

Shadow of the Keening Star project illustration
Creator-published Shadow of the Keening Star competition cover, used to identify the original game. It is not a gameplay session completed by this site. Source & credits (opens a new tab)
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YOUR FIRST SESSION

Your first few moves.

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  1. 01

    See the objective

    A mysterious letter leads the player to an abandoned New England house in search of a missing uncle.

  2. 02

    Learn the active rule

    Arrow keys are used to explore and interact, and H opens the in-game help.

  3. 03

    Make a considered move

    Keep a note of a location or clue you want to revisit instead of rushing past the text.

KEEP THIS HANDY

Controls at a glance.

Arrow keys
Explore and interact.
H
Open the game’s help.
Text responses
Read the result of each action for clues.

Follow a letter into an empty house

A mysterious letter leads the player to an abandoned New England house in search of a missing uncle. The game presents its exploration as a retro text-based puzzle adventure.

How the game works

Arrow keys are used to explore and interact, and H opens the in-game help. Read the responses after an action for clues about the house and its surroundings.

A practical starting point

Keep a note of a location or clue you want to revisit instead of rushing past the text. The original competition description leaves the later story for you to discover.

BEFORE YOU CLOSE THE TAB

What happens to your progress?

A portable save or cross-device synchronization is not established by the reviewed documentation. Check the original game before relying on a later return.

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A FEW USEFUL ANSWERS

Before the next click.

Where is the in-game help?

The creator says to press H.

Does this site’s Saved button keep my progress?

Saved keeps a link to this profile on your device. Game progress belongs to the game and its host.

Follow the source.

Elliot Nelson. Licence notice. Source and image rights remain with their creators; see notices.

Latest collected source change: Update genres (opens a new tab) . Repository activity does not identify the hosted game version.

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