The Castles of Dr. Creep Reviews

A truly amazing time capsule of software. My dad and I played this on C64 back when I was around 3 years old. To see it preserved on steam is not just heart warming, but it stands as a reminder of the required reading we gamers had to fight through to make it to today. This game had so much for it's time, not the least of which was co-op puzzles! Worth a play if you want to see what we had before you were born.

What a fantastic classic that doesn't lose a single step in this version over the old C64 version. This is what gaming is really like, not the soulless trappings of modern graphics and gimmicks.

This is a very faithful port of what was (in my humble opinion) the best puzzle game of the 8-bit era. I loved to play it on my C64 back in the 1980s, and it holds up very well today! What distinguished The Castles of Dr. Creep from other puzzlers of the era is that each screen is not an independent level: As you move from screen to screen to explore the castle, often what you do in one area affects another area. The level design is intricate and brilliant. Success takes careful observation, and even when you work out the solution it can take a while to traverse. Warning however, this is not a game that holds your hand and wants you to win. It is a genuine challenge so be prepared!

Old is new again. 8 bit is the new retro. Dr. Creep still rules his castle and playing this on the PC brings back memories of Commodore64 and late nights playing games back in the mid 80s. I'm still gaming and to get a break from all the 64 bit "realism" of modern gaming I play this little gem. It is smooth, it hasn't glitched yet. Game play is almost exactly as I remember it. The frankensteins, the mummies it all works like I remember. Maybe a little better. This was my favorite platform game, Impossible Mission coming in at a distant second. And Gods on the Amiga, So, run the maze, flip the switches, fry the monsters and save the day for $1.99 US and relive those golden years when games came into our homes and we became junkies for the rest of our lives! LOL

The castles of dr. creep awakes memories of me playing on the C64 with my brother, and trying to escape the castle. The game is very simple and yet brilliant, with a great atmosphere, it's strength is the multiplayer, playing with another person and syncing up is the heart of the game. The great improvement would be to have it ready for online multiplayer. Unfortunately, steam didn't put in the extra work, so I'm not able to play it with my friends, which is really what I would like to do.

Well, I remeber playing this way back when i had a C64. Bought instantly. So many memories of playing this with my long gone friend came flooding back, the nostalgia was so strong i could almost taste the hubba bubba and smell the caps from our guns. thank-you so much for making this, from the bottom of my heart. You have made my year.

You've got to be kidding me. This is an obscure game I played for hours on the Commodore 64 in the 80's. Here it is in all its glory! The game is basically a creepy puzzle platformer and this version is probably being run on a C64 emulator because it's perfect, SID sounds and everything. You can play with a controller or with a keyboard or with both, high scores, saves, unlimited lives if you want, pretty much everything. It's also cheap, buy it now.

This was probably my favourite game on the C64 growing up. So far it seems unchanged from the original. Maximum nostalgia with the reveal of each new puzzle room. Still very difficult. My only beef would be the default controller layout (not intuitive at all) and some of the controls within the game are really finicky (seems even worse than in the original). I have problems getting the teleporter to change colours, trouble getting off of ropes and ladders, etc... can't count the times I've missed a timed door because of getting stuck on a ladder/rope. At least there is a suicide button (and the option for unlimited lives is still there.) Recommended to anyone who played the original.

Shooting mummies over moving walkways, running from Frankenstein’s monster hit the switch hit the switch Hit the God damn switch. Climb this ladder down this pole up this ladder down this pole. This is by far the best game in existence and everything else fails in comparison to its majesty. 1203 out of 10

This was pretty much my childhood's Portal. This game is a challenging, 2D puzzle game, that will hone your skills and ask for a lot of coordination throughout the 13 castles offered. I think the challenge still holds up until today. The mechanics are easy to learn, yet hard to master, and for the time that it came out, a lot of thought went into making a huge variety of them(like sparks, mummies, Frankensteins!!!) The port feels good as far as i can tell, you can even play with a controller. Thank you for bringing this to steam <3