There is some good news for the lazier among you: like Gateway, the mouse is supported and does wonders to speed up gameplay. The center of the screen shows what the player is currently looking at (the room you're in), on the left is a compass which shows which way you can go, and on the right is a list of verbs that the game understands. The interface is very similar to that of Frederik Pohl's Gateway: you tell the game what you want to do by typing sentences in. I rather enjoyed this, as a time constraint really pushes the player to do less random exploring and focus on the task from the get-go. I'm not really sure why, but you must complete the game before the next sermon at the village church - which is in 4 days!Įvery few minutes, the game will tell you that another hour has passed. The theme of the adventure is to find and expose the evil people by getting evidence against them and having them arrested There's not only 'normal' sinners, like murderers and adulterers, but you'll have to dispose of a witch, a vampire, a hell-hound and finally the Devil himself. By playing the game, you discover that evil forces have taken over the people of the village. My guess is that the guy being struck by lightning is the man in question. You have to find out what's going on and what happened to your father. A strange letter from him made you decide to return to your village, only to find out your father is nowhere to be found, and everyone is hostile and strange. Your father is the pastor of your village. After doing some research online, I found the plot behind Personal Nightmare:

However it doesn't explain what the player has to do. The intro only shows a man being hit by lightning in a church, then transforming him into the devil. Like the name implies, Personal Nightmare is a horror game.

...a personal nightmare game