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In case you missed it, a few days ago I posted a rather mysterious entry with little more than some Lorem Ipsum text and a hidden cipher. Clicking on the icon took you to a page on which a few scrabble tiles lay. By solving the anagram puzzle you were rewarded with a new holiday stylesheet (I've made it so everyone has it now) and then presented with Purgatorium, a brand new game from Exmortis author, Ben Leffler, that was created especially for Casual Gameplay.
Purgatorium is a short and creepy point-and-click escape-the-room game with some rather horrific graphic visuals nestled inside. If you have played either of Ben's other horror-genre interactive narratives, Exmortis and Exmortis 2, then you may already know what to expect. In addition to the visual stimuli (from which you're sure to get a jump or two) there is a bit of a narrative that unfolds as well. The game is not very difficult so you shouldn't have any trouble getting through this one on your own. Click.
My sincere thanks and appreciation go out to Benny for coming through in such short notice so that we all might enjoy something new from him this Halloween. Cheers! =)
By the way, rumor has it there's an Exmortis 3 on the horizon coming in 2007. ;)
Purgatorium walkthrough now available!
Comments (may contain spoilers)
Hi Jay. I'm stuck on this game, maybe i'm just stupid, but how did u get out???
Did you...

I can't get past the door without my browser crashing on me. Happens with both Firefox and Safari, on an Intel Mac.
nice but its not difficult at all
How do you access the inventory?
Never mind.


So I picked the lock on the door but now am stuck...and a little scared
HELP - SOMEONE?!?

please someone give me a hint
Figured it out :o)

First I just want to say to those of you who can't get the game to work...keep trying it's worth it. Second Jay i finnaly got it to work by resetting my browser settings and then redownloading the proper java add-ons (might help thsoe of you not getting in the game.) Next I would like to offer a walkthrough.
Walkthrough click at own risk of ruining the game (getting scared myb?):







Oh! and anyone know what that song is...it's familiar but I can;t remeber what it's called.
P.S. Ben nice game make that rumor of EX3 in 2007 come true.
hmmm....it was quite easy but nice...and a bit twisted :(
The music box tune was "Memories" from the musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Happy Halloween all!
What happens

I always reflexively minimize the window at that point, you see. I'm much too twitchy to do this a third time, you see? And

Hahaha good one I'm such a chicken freaks me out this stuff...
love Escape-rooms Keep them comming Jay there's a good lad! ;)
I can't get past the door without my browser crashing on me. Happens with both Firefox and Safari, on an Intel Mac.
Yeah, still have that problem. It is upsetting. Please, a fix!
Imok - yes, I can confirm that the problem happens on Intel Macs. I am not sure if this is a bug in the universal binary version of the Flash Player or what is really causing it. I've sent a note on to Ben to see if he's doing anything odd at that point in the game. Sorry you're having trouble with it. =/
oh my goodness!

just a pity, it's too short..
'tis ok without sound.
Anyway, i can't find anything under the cot/bed - it's too dark.
ah, ok now. after much clicking, i got what i needed.
Firstly, thank you to Naymlis for posting that walkthrough, but

Just been freaked out by Mr Leffler's latest piece of sick and twisted brilliance! Fantastic stuff, looking forward to next Ex Mortis. Found your site by accident about a month ago and have popped along for a game or two almost every day since, is very cool, cheers!
"Oh! and anyone know what that song is...it's familiar but I can;t remeber what it's called."
It's "Memories" from the musical Cats. Now, pretend that I never knew that.
In the final scene, I almost screamed. Almost. If I had played this at night, Iwould have screamed bloody murder. Great game. I really liked it for a quick scare.
That scared me so much I closed the window by accident!
ok,sounds stupid to the rest of you,but1. i'm german and 2. i'm no scrabbler!
how on gods green earth do i get past the anagram?i assume i have to put the letters in order, so it spells out purgatorium,but as only got 1 u and 1 r,how do i do that?
i'd love to play that!
sorry for being stupid right now! ;)
thx for your help!
eumel
Hi eumel!
Do you have your sound turned up? When you move the tiles around you should notice that in certain spots they 'snap' into position and give a little 'click' sound. You'll also notice that additional tiles will appear when a tile is placed in certain positions. I hope that helps! =)
i thought this game was incredibly too short. it was an all right time.
tiles and anagrams?
What are you cats talking about?
hee-hee...cats...
lolz
(forgive me!)
I beat the game and it was fun oh yeah!!
by brother saw the dead body and he nearly screamed..
OMG.... I just got out XD i turned off the lights and did it and survived.. with my brother screaming.
Ok - I admit it - I jumped. I didn't scream though!
AGH! *clutches heart* That scared the life out of me...
whats the jigsaw puzzle answer
I made some good progress with this game. :)
Normally I don't play creepy escape-the-room games... heck, I couldn't get through the first room in 'The House'.

Ah well, I'll try again later.
Played it again and got to the end.

Quick Walkthrough
1. Rearrange the letters into the word Purgatorium. They should centre themself in the middle of the screen.
2. When the game starts, click on the plastic bin.
3. Get the fork from the severed head.
4. Click under the cot and retrieve the lock-pick.
5. Pick the lock to the door and open it.
6. Stick the fork in the socket to short the power.
7. Look through the missing brick to solve the mystery.
All the rest of the things are just to add to the atmosphere.
once again im scared sh*tless lol this was an amazing short game, right at the end i neerly had a heart attack lol
BRING ON EXMORTIS 3
I LOVE YOUR STUFF!!! i cant wait for exmortis 3. MAKE MORE!!!
ermm...wat happens after when i opened the door?
Wow that scared the crap out of me!! lol...nearly got a heart attack too...omg i shouldn't have turned the speakers on LOL!! haha
i had to put on some happy-go-lucky song on full blast during this game (and exmortis 1 + 2) just to stop me running away screaming! I'm still trying to recover!
That was creepy, should have been longer but apart from that, very good game!!!
Exmortis 3 better be as good as the 1st and 2nd!
My mate, the wuss, he wont go near it!!!
OMG, I can't breath, I am so terrified of clowns this wasn't even funny! *hides in corner and cries*
wow, this was really good! i liked it but can someone help me get the end about the article & what's on the tomb? i read too slow & i want to keep it so i can understand.
This game was truely amazing! =) I love his games, and I do hope he makes Exmortis 3.

OMG! I nearly died of fright! Ahahahahahahaha! That was soooooooo much fun :O)
ben you did a nice job!i mean GREAT job!well,one thing..i wish it was longer!!
for those who wish to walk-out ov this game..your a coward..and for those who keep on searchin for the answers,here's sumfin 4 u guyz!







good job!;)
p.s..
ben.i hope there's contins' for Exmortis3!ived already spread the news to my friends 'bout your work..they find it unique and worth the shitty slow-mo downloads!!!more power!
Lillian:
This is what it says:

Read this only if you have beaten the game and are too slow to read =)
Bill Rydell

Newspaper

The Gravestone

hey this game wasnt that hard lie the other was actualy i kinda like it!!!
LOL that scared the crap out of me. what was with

Holy crapola! I almost died during this game. T.T
That was short and sweet, I didn't jump though, I expect the unexpected. Plus all I watch are horror flicks.
Hey guys, don't know how you got stuck, this game wasn't nearly as hard as Exmortis 1 and 2, but for the question about the lighter, it's on the floor in the room with the murdered children. wait till it's in your inventory, then proceed.
Here is a walkthrough for PURGATORIUM

'put mouse on rocking chair
''grab fork from head
''look at totally creepy baby in crib
''look under crib to find metal thing in left corner
''keep door open and click outlet
'click lighted brick
Click newspaper, stare for about a minute t'ill head pops up
enjoy! i didn't even JUMP! LET ALONE SCREAM.
so... it was over in less than 2 minutes?... ok at least it was nice :)
major spoilers for the story!!!

Okay basically the character you play as is a man who went insane, sealed his child & wife in the child's bedroom with him using bricks. He then proceeded to decapitate the pair of them. He has woken up after fainting from the magnitude of his insanity & is going through post-traumatic illness, basically he can't remeber a thing. Snippets of his memory remain hence the hallucinations.
Boy did that ending scene scare the crap outta me. You are an exellent story teller mr. Leffler. I can't stand horror stuff because it's usually so cliche, but the stories in your games are really good. Keep up the good work.
i love the heartbeat at the end so much i kept the window open just to listen to it lol
Holy crap, you scared me so bad! I flipped the whole time and I'm still recovering (like 5 min later) and when my dad came in to talk to me I was like "oh..uh..yeah....." and I guess he didn't notice I was SCARED STIFF but I was like "OMG"
lol even if that was so short the ending was great
wow short but infinately sweet.
what an ending. silent hill-esque.
OMG I think I died of shock lol good story though :)
Anyone that has a problem with the scrabble letters
Put this in the address bar to take you right to the game.
DUDE!
I just finished reading the uuummm news thingy and the head thingy popped up and i almost threw my laptop across the room!
I'm all twitchy now!
YAY IT BURNS!
Not to mention i'm wathin sci-fi!
Love it.
Ok..Um..I'm so confused. Everyones talking about anagrams? I never saw an anagram at the beginning. And I did everything it said in the walkthrough,

Help!!
[Edit: I think the anagram being referred to is what you get when you visit this link...
-Jay]
this game really freaked me out..... especeally the part with the bloody guy that came up to the window and also the ghost!im never playing this again never ever ever ever ever gonna!
heh... that was unexpected... i fought i did it wrong when i saw the

anyone got a walkthrough with no blood or guts or anything like that i am only 8 all i did was put my mouse over the rocking chair and saw the ghost without the head and switched it off. it made me jump 3 metres high in side my body and made me tingle with fright.
does anyone have a walkthrough that dosent have any blood or guts becase i am only 8 i mean all i did was put my mouse over the chair saw the ghost with no head and switched it off.
can anyone tell me where the missing brick is?

brill game short though i loved both the exmortis 1 and 2 !hope theres a 3rd .anyone know of any more good games like these
scared the crap outta me!
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