I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an award-winning psychological horror point-and-click adventure game based upon Harlan Ellison’s short story of the same name. Co-designed by Ellison and published by Cyberdreams in 1995, the game was a work of interactive fiction with psychological and ethical themes.The game’s story is a set in the world where an evil computer named AM that has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, who he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years. Each survivor has a fatal flaw in its character, and in an attempt to crush their spirits, AM has constructed a metaphorical adventure for each that preys upon their weaknesses. To succeed in the game, the player must make ethical choices to prove that humans are better than machines, because they have the ability to redeem themselves. Woven into the fabric of the story are ethical dilemmas dealing with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia, vivisection and genocide.
Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
CPU | 1.8 GHz | Intel Pentium 100MHz / AMD K6 200MHz |
VRAM | 256 MB | 16 MB |
RAM | 512 MB RAM | 256 MB |
OS | Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 | Win Xp 32 |
Graphics Card | 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c | nVidia Vanta 16MB / AMD Rage 128 Ultra 16MB |
Direct X | 9.0c | DX 9 |
SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
HDD Space | 2GB HDD | 2 GB |
Game Analysis | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is an award-winning psychological horror point-and-click adventure game based upon Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name. Co-designed by Ellison and published by Cyberdreams in 1995, the game was a work of interactive fiction with psychological and ethical themes.The game's story is a set in the world where an evil computer named AM that has destroyed all of humanity except for five people, who he has been keeping alive and torturing for the past 109 years. Each survivor has a fatal flaw in its character, and in an attempt to crush their spirits, AM has constructed a metaphorical adventure for each that preys upon their weaknesses. To succeed in the game, the player must make ethical choices to prove that humans are better than machines, because they have the ability to redeem themselves. Woven into the fabric of the story are ethical dilemmas dealing with issues such as insanity, rape, paranoia, vivisection and genocide. | |
High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
Optimization Score | 10 |
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | |
RAM | 1 GB | |
OS | OS X 10.7.0 or later | |
Graphics Card | 256 MB of video RAM | |
HDD Space | 1 GB |
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | 2.0 GHz | |
RAM | 1 GB RAM | |
OS | Ubuntu 14.04, Mint 17 | |
Graphics Card | 256 MB VRAM, OpenGL compatible |