Captain Disaster the Computer Game is the main home of the Captain Disaster adventure games and related projects by Dave Seaman. The site brings together information on the games themselves, along with screenshots, trailers, walkthroughs, media coverage and occasional side projects. Most of the focus is on comedy adventure gaming, with a mixture of freeware releases, commercial titles and experimental smaller works. No generative AI is used in any of the Captain Disaster games. I do experiment with AI in other contexts, and where I've blogged about these, I clearly indicate this.

Saturday, 3 October 2026

"The Corruption Within" now on GOG!

Seems a lifetime ago now but back in 2020-21, I did the design and writing for one of Cosmic Void's games (he's now gone on to create about a million games, I will never be anything like as prolific!!) This is a first-person perspective psychological thriller set in Victorian times, in which your family has disappeared during a camping holiday and the only sign of habitation for miles is a mysterious country house...



The game is designed to be accessible to players of all abilities, with puzzles probably on the easier side if you're a real adventure game aficionado. There is an emphasis on strong storytelling and interesting characters. It's not a huge game and will probably take you 2-4 hours to complete, depending on how much you check out everything and how quickly you work out the puzzle solutions.

It's a very different game tonally to what I normally design, and I tried very hard to ground the storyline and puzzles to reality, despite some obviously unusual circumstances and events.


Some years after it's initial Steam release, it's now available on GOG - and is currently 75% off, so if that sounds interesting to you, check it out.









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