Dad’s Monster House 2: MEDAL

A decaying house full of staring windows, knocking walls, and unnatural residents turns a simple escape premise into a surreal adventure. Dad’s Monster House 2: MEDAL trades conventional horror scares for an offbeat, uneasy mood where every room feels like a handmade nightmare and a curious toy box at once. A mysterious force traps the player inside, while a rocket offers the only apparent way out. The result is a point-and-click puzzle journey that feels creepy without losing its sense of absurd humor.

Progress comes from inspecting cluttered scenes, collecting useful objects, linking clues, and figuring out how the house’s bizarre systems fit together. Puzzles range from repairing electrical connections and assembling image fragments to decoding patterns and following musical cues, so observation matters as much as inventory management. Strange inhabitants are more than background decoration: players feed insects, assist an odd pear-headed woodsman, and barter with spider-like characters to gain access to new solutions. Medals representing Courage, Love, and Curiosity act as major collectibles, encouraging thorough exploration while powering the rocket needed for the final escape.

Its strongest feature is the way puzzle-solving, character interactions, and collecting all feed into one connected mystery rather than feeling like separate minigames. The exaggerated creature designs and deliberately strange scenarios give it a personality closer to Rusty Lake’s surreal escape-room fiction than to a grim haunted-house simulator. Hidden portraits of twelve influential scientists and writers add an optional layer of discovery, with references tied to virtual-reality ideas and the game’s broader themes. Fans of eccentric room escapes, item-combination puzzles, and weird narrative adventures find plenty to enjoy, while newcomers benefit from its focused, screen-by-screen structure and clear goal of uncovering every medal.