I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a point-and-click adventure game based upon Harlan Ellison's short story of the same title. The game's story is set in a world where an evil computer named AM has…
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an adventure developed by Cyberdreams, released 31 October 1995 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an adventure game developed by Cyberdreams and released in 1995. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, DOS, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on SAGA.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Cold war paranoia and hysteria dominated the civilized world in one form or another from the Russian Revolution in 1917 to the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For most of the 20th century the human race lived in a state of repressed panic and diminution of personal freedoms. But all that ended and the threat of nuclear holocaust blew away as lightly as the tabloids that fueled the paranoia. No more threat of war, and the world moved forward into a new age of thousands of brushfire wars in countries no one had ever heard of. Safe at last. In a pig's eye. What none of us knew was that during the years 1945 to 1989, the three great superpowers had set in motion secret projects that would…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 13 achievements to unlock.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12.1 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for IBM PC with a 233Mhz 486 processor, 64 MB RAM and A VESA compatible Super VGA card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream launched on 31 October 1995, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby and Screamer. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Destruction Derby, Screamer.
Official trailer
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