## Description
Taking an unusual setting and theme for a game, this one puts the player in
the old town of Edinburgh, Scotland, as an agent in the employ of the the
Moving Target Estate Agency — a suit in charge of renting and managing
properties on behalf of absentee landlords. But buildings in old towns hide
old secrets, and when the no-nonsense boss Patricia McCorquodale (aka _The
Crocodile_ ) fires a co-worker, divides up her portfolio and gives the player
the responsibility of generating revenue from the grim old house at 57
Crowther Terrace, the property begins divulging hints regarding why it was so
hard to rent. The hauntings, for example.
But the player is under _Glengarry Glen Ross_ pressure to outperform a
corporate rival or find themselves in the dole queue, and so players get to
make choices from lists of options. Choices about what rent rate to ask of the
nice family, which aspects of the neighbourhood to emphasize when making the
sell and whether to dispatch an exterminator when they complain of scratching
in the walls at night. When the tenants are driven off by too many consecutive
sleepless nights, as the property’s notoriety grows other segments of the
rental market can be tapped into: student residences, parlours for rich
weirdos, a recording studio for a black metal band. The property will suffer
from unexplained fires, paranormal manifestations, and perhaps most horrifying
of all: rent-free artist squatters.
Will a seance reveal the true nature of the apparitions? Will the tenants
survive? Will the residence be featured on a reality TV show about haunted
houses? Will the player be unemployed at the start of the next pay period?
Read on, as the player’s decisions inform numerical statistics behind the
scenes, which modify the text that then unfolds, describing to them the
outcome of their shrewd choices.
In addition to iOS and Android mobile devices, the game is available for local
computer play (through the Chrome web browser on Windows, Mac and Linux
machines) through purchase from the Chrome Web Store.
Eerie Estate Agent