Personal Nightmare

Horror Soft

Industry	Video game development and publishing
Headquarters	United Kingdom
Products	Personal Nightmare

Personal Nightmare is a horror-themed adventure game created and distributed by Horror Soft for the Amiga, Atari ST, and MS-DOS platforms in 1989. Adventure Soft later made the game available digitally on GOG.com in July 2009.

Plot

The storyline unfolds in a town overtaken by The Devil, where the player must, within four days, eradicate citizens who have become possessed—led by a vampire and a witch—and ultimately confront and defeat The Devil to stop his domination.

Gameplay

This title features a hybrid interface combining text input with clickable verbal commands and object interactions. Movement is directed through a compass indicating possible paths. The gameplay progresses in real time, incorporating a cycle of day and night. Players can manage their inventory through an in-game menu. Numerous encounters occur, particularly during nighttime, which can be deadly unless the player takes appropriate measures to avoid them. Subsequent editions of the game eliminated some of these fatal events. If the player fails to purge all possessed individuals and vanquish The Devil within the allotted four days, the game ends.

Reception

Personal Nightmare garnered favorable critiques, achieving scores such as 87% from Zzap!64 (Amiga), 84% from Computer + Video Games (Amiga, Atari ST), 74% from CU Amiga (Amiga), and a 7 out of 10 rating from Datormagazin (Amiga).