Country House

Country House is a 2001 illustrated interactive fiction title by Eva Vikstrom, built with the StoryMaker engine for classic Mac OS. The work is set in eighteenth-century Sweden and is described as historically credible in environment and characters, with research and exploration favored over puzzle mechanics or combat.

Setting

The game places the reader in an eighteenth-century Swedish country estate, with the surrounding world drawn to be plausible to the period. Supernatural threads weave through the otherwise grounded historical backdrop.

Approach to play

Rather than collecting keys or managing inventory under threat, the player conducts historical research by moving through illustrated locations and interacting with the environment. There are no survival pressures attached to exploration.

Navigation

An in-game map is available to orient the reader within the house and its grounds, supporting the more contemplative, research-driven pace of the work.

Engine and platform

Authored in StoryMaker, the title runs on 68k Macintosh hardware spanning System 6.x through Mac OS 9, with a small footprint of roughly 132 KB.