Waxworks

As a child, you were never taught of your family's dark secret - a whole history of 'evil twins' doing Satan's work on Earth, and 'good twins' attempting to put this right. Your uncle informs you of this shortly before his death, and after travelling to his castle you find that you must travel through time to correct these wrongdoings.
Through a range of murals at your uncle's house, various past scenes must be entered, with more becoming available as you complete them. In each you must find and kill your demented relative in time.

WaxWorks is a hybrid game that combines elements of role-playing and adventure. The player explores maze-like locations, manipulating objects and solving puzzles. Enemies appear from time to time and must be defeated using the various weapons found in the game. The player receives experience points and fathers equipment in a RPG fashion in each WaxWork; however, completing one negates these effects, and the protagonist becomes more defenseless in the next location. The game's controls are point and click, with the interface allowing the player to examine and collect items, select a weapon, and attack potential foes by striking at a particular part of their body.

Added March 8, 2020
Published By Accolade
Developed By Horror Soft
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opening sequence (DOS) from mobygames.com
check the crystal ball for hints (DOS) from mobygames.com
navigate through the museum (DOS) from mobygames.com
back in jack the ripper's time (DOS) from mobygames.com
whoops! (DOS) from mobygames.com
Fighting a zombie. Click the area you wish to strike. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Took off his head, but that's not enough! (DOS) from mobygames.com
Hearts will refill your life in the graveyard world. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Navigating London's streets in the Ripper's time. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Found a clue. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Running into the angry mob will end the game. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Looking for items in the Egyptian waxwork. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Inside the mine waxwork. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Plants are taking over. This welder won't need his gear anymore! (DOS) from mobygames.com
Spray pesticide to move past these vines. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Horror Soft doesn't mess around. (DOS) from mobygames.com
Title screen (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Horrosoft logo (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Opening sequence (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Copy protection (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Crystal ball (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Game start (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Corridor (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Pyramid waxwork (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Graveyard waxwork (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Jack the Ripper waxwork (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Mine waxwork (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Combat is very simple, and depends mostly on luck. Just click where you want to aim, and the game calculates if you will hit or not. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
A room in the pyramid. You can pick up a lot of items in the game. Most will be useless, but some are needed to solve puzzles. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Attacked by a crocodile! This pyramid is a deadly place... (Amiga) from mobygames.com
A puzzle involving numbers. If you don't solve it in time, you will get killed by a trap. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
In the graveyard waxwork. The gardener have been killed by zombies, and I will search his body. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Statue of an angel. What a creepy place... (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Watch out, a zombie is approaching! This area has a lot of fighting, and less puzzle-solving than the other waxworks. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
There's a church in the middle of the graveyard. Inside I meet this vampire, and I think I'm in some serious trouble... (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Inside the mines. This place has been taken over by mutants. Let's hit this freak with a shovel. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Another painful death. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Using a chemical sprayer against these tentacles. It's effective against most enemies in this waxwork. But be careful, it gets empty really fast. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
There are some prisoners in this cage. I need to free them somehow. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
You have to watch out for the police in the Jack the Ripper waxwork. They think, mistakenly, that you are the Ripper. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
One of the Rippers victims. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
An angry mob is chasing me. This waxwork has almost no combat, and is more focused on puzzle-solving. Mostly, you have to run away, rather than fight. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
I have broken into the tailors place, because I need to find a disguise. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Inside a pub. I can talk to some of the people here. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Dialogue with the landlord. He might have some useful information. (Amiga) from mobygames.com
Talking with some prostitutes, but don't worry, the game has no explicit sexual content. Just a lot of gore... (Amiga) from mobygames.com
I need to get rid of this guard-dog, to enter a building. Not an easy task... (Amiga) from mobygames.com
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Year of Release:
1992

Genre(s):
Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy Horror Sci-Fi

Gameplay:
RPG

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