Realms of the Haunting

• Title — Realms of the Haunting • Developer — Gremlin Interactive • Publisher — Interplay Productions • Producer — Tom Lauten Jerry Luttrell • Designer — Paul Green • Programmer — Antony Crowther • Artist — Christopher Pepper • Writer — Paul Green • Composer — Chris Adams • Platforms — MS-DOS • Genre — Adventure, first-person shooter • Modes — Single-player

The player explores locations and fights demons from a first-person perspective. A floating cursor is used to interact with the environment and pick up items. The game features many inventory-based puzzles. The story of Realms of the Haunting is told through full-motion video cutscenes, which utilize live-action actors.

Adam Randall ventures to a haunted house in order to investigate the mysterious circumstances around his father's death. As he enters, however, the doors lock behind him and he is forced to journey through the entire house while looking for answers as well as a means of escaping it. Along the way he meets up with a psychic woman, Rebecca Trevisard, who provides guidance to Adam as they work together to escape. Adam soon discovers the house contains portals to several different universes, and that he is the Chosen One who must prevent the final apocalyptic battle between the forces of good and evil. The game has over 40 hours of content, including many different universes to visit and a plot which involves multiple sides fighting for their own causes. The beginning gives the idea of Adam being against demonic forces, but later the player finds him caught in a much deeper plot between different forces, where demons play only one role.

Realms of the Haunting was Gremlin's most expensive project yet. The lead programmer on the game was Antony Crowther. GOG.com released an emulated version for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X in 2011.