This article is about the 1996 video game. For the fictional deity, see Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire § Drowned God.
1996 video game
Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages
Cover art
Developer(s)
Epic Multimedia Group[2]
Publisher(s)
Inscape[2]
Platform(s)
Windows 95[3]
Release
November 16, 1996[1]
Genre(s)
Adventure
Mode(s)
Single-player
Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages is a 1996 science fiction adventure game developed by Epic Multimedia Group and published by Inscape. The game propounds the conspiracy theory that all of human history is a lie and that the human race's development and evolution were aided by extraterrestrials. The player attempts to uncover the truth through the course of the game by traveling to a variety of different worlds, interacting with historical and fictional characters, and solving puzzles.
Drowned God is based on a forged manuscript written by Harry Horse in 1983, purported to have been written by 19th-century poet Richard Henry Horne, who shares Horse's birth name. After facing legal trouble and fines when he attempted to sell the text, Horse shelved it until playing Myst and The 7th Guest in the mid-1990s, whereupon he decided a first-person adventure game would be the best way to tell the manuscript's story.
Producer Algy Williams hired a team of multimedia artists and programmers to help Horse develop Drowned God. Upon its release, the game sold well, but it quickly faded in popularity due to bugs and a lack of patches. Drowned God's concept and visuals were widely praised, while its gameplay, audio, and puzzles received more varied responses. A planned sequel never came to fruition.
The game has been rereleased on Epic Games Store in June 2024 by the original team along with Next Path Media Ltd.
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