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Escape from Hell

DOS - 1990

A "light" RPG with a healthy dose of humor, Escape from Hell is based on an interesting premise: you are a typical guy who's one day mysteriously "zapped" into Hell. And now you must find a way out alive. Talk to lots of Hellish creatures, see inventive tortures and why, aside from the apologetic note in Hell's phone booth, your guardian angel never shows up.

Gameplay is standard top-down RPG fare, with simplified statistics and a good amount of adventure-style puzzle solving. The designer missed no opportunity in poking fun of Biblical references and pop culture: everything from weapon choices, non-player characters, and location descriptions in the game are tongue-in-cheek and some are flat-out funny.

Highly recommended for anyone wanting to try a good RPG parody, but don't be fooled by the simplified statistics though: the game will take you quite a while to finish.

Review By HOTUD

How to Play

Retrogamer Mike sent wonderful maps and infos on the game:

Finished up all Maps for Escape From Hell, added an Excel Spreadsheet of all Items and a tab on NPC stats and inventory editing for interested hacker / cheaters LOL.

Fantastic game I wanted to play thru it again after so many years. The maps show all the things of note, and the maps Info will walk someone thru all items, dialogs I could find with labels on where they are.

Comments and reviews

ابو سعيد 01 Apr. 2026

بدي العب لعبة جهنم

0
احمد ابو الرب 03 Jan. 2026

بخدع متابعيني على اليوتيوب بلعب العاب من وراهم ما بشاركهم

0
BananaJane 16 Aug. 2023

Amazing graphics

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larry 27 May. 2018

literally a "friday night" game. 90s was a great period to be a teenager.

2
Space Boy 25 Feb. 2016

I volunteer to download this rom my agreement.

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stromm 27 Jun. 2013
Top comment

Back when this game came out, it was protested by multiple women's activist groups. They didn't like the "topless" female demons. Topless amounted to a single pixel as a nipple. It was quickly pulled off the shelves and market in the US.

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admin 05 May. 2013
Admin

Manual added thx !

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Mr.Peanut 05 May. 2013

Nice game, you can found the manual here:
www.compmike19.com‎ ;)

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Downloads

DOS version
Game file
United Kingdom English
390 KB

Extras

Manual Manual 2
Extra file
DOS 910 KB English English
PDF Manual
DOS 7 MB English English
Map Map 1
Maps - Provided by Mike
DOS 2 MB English English
Misc Misc 2
Full Maps and Guide - Provided by Mike
DOS 14 MB English English
Copy Protection Codes
DOS 13 KB English English

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