Los Angeles-based video game studio The Odd Gentlemen announces the production of a new game written by author Neil Gaiman (his first video game): Wayward Manor. The game will debut later this year, but the studio is pre-selling copies of the game, as well as piles of related merchandise, up to and including a chance to have your name appear in the game and a dinner with Gaiman in Los Angeles.

The game is “Set in a 1920s Victorian Gothic pastoral estate, Wayward Manor focuses on the plight of a ghost whose hope of a peaceful after-life is interrupted by a remarkable cast of intruders. Awoken from his post-mortem slumbers, our ghost must find ever-more inventive and brilliant ways to scare them away. As the ghost learns more about the living characters, he also learns more about his own death and after-life, and the danger they are all facing.”

The pop-up website, at whohauntsneil.com/welcome, has information on the game, full ordering options, and much more.

“Wayward Manor is a puzzle/adventure game hybrid that invites players to solve the mysteries of the mansion any way they choose. You play as a disgruntled ghost, trying to reclaim your house from its newfound owners. This dysfunctional family of misfits and eccentrics have stifled your power and brought their own abysmal possessions into your humble abode. Each level is a playground for scares where players absorb fear to take back control of the room. If you want free reign over your mansion once again, you must uncover their deepest anxieties and drive them mad with fear using your wits and their hideous belongings.”

See Gaiman’s introductory video (embedded below) for more on the project.

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