THE SCREAMER

Released by Magical Zoo in 1985, this title is an adventure role-playing game that tasks players with exploring a massive, dilapidated structure in a ruined future. The game features character designs by manga artist Shohei Harumoto, whose unique style contributes to a heavy, immersive world blending cyberpunk and hard-boiled aesthetics. With features like real-time combat in dungeons infested with mutants and cyborgs, it offered a thrilling and highly immersive experience for PC gamers of the era. This ambitious title represents a rare historical artifact that successfully fused the work of a prominent creator with a gritty sci-fi setting, casting a singular brilliance on the dawn of Japanese PC gaming.

In a future where civilization has collapsed following a final war, the former central management facility known as "BIAS" has transformed into a den of horrors stalked by monstrous beasts. Hunters who venture into this perilous facility in search of fortune are known as "Screamers," a name derived from the hollow death cries they emit in their final moments. As a Screamer, you must utilize a variety of firearms and dangerous drugs to make your way to the top floor of BIAS. Can you survive the suffocating, brutal exploration and uncover the truth hidden within the facility to make it out alive?