Wayward Manor

Wayward Manor is a puzzle-adventure game set in the 1920s. As a disgruntled ghost, you try to reclaim your mansion from the Budds, a dysfunctional family of misfits and eccentrics who have moved in and stifled your power. You learn about the characters and their world through observation and discovery, and use the family’s belongings to prey on their fears.

Frighten the Budds

Each level is a room where you earn fear to regain control. Possess ghastly furnishings and use your imagination to manipulate the Budds into dire consequences and drive them mad with fear. Absorbing fear lets you level up and take control of each room. Puzzles have multiple solutions, and you can also find secret scares.

The mansion

The game spans five floors, each with new items to possess and new ways to terrify. Its nine quirky inhabitants have their own desires, fears and anxieties. The musically themed characters are each represented by their own instrument, and the game has a dark tone reminiscent of old Hollywood whodunit mysteries.

Story and presentation

The story is crafted and narrated by Neil Gaiman, with art from Chuck BB. The game grew from a Lego prototype played by The Odd Gentlemen and Neil Gaiman, and became a nonlinear puzzle-adventure about discovering its characters and world.