Goliath The Soothsayer

About Goliath The Soothsayer

Goliath The Soothsayer was made by Ben Leffler of LefflerWebDesign, the maker of Exmortis, together with Universal Records and Rodriguez Lopez Productions, and released on Newgrounds in early 2008, where it won Daily Feature. It is based on what the band The Mars Volta told as a true story from the making of their album The Bedlam in Goliath. Newgrounds still runs it in the browser for free.

Your brother has disappeared, and you have been appointed to look after his estate. From the moment you enter his house, strange, inexplicable things begin to happen. Then one morning you wake up locked in the attic, held captive by a malevolent force.

It plays in the first-person point-and-click style of Exmortis: you look around still scenes, click on what you find and solve your way through the house while the story of your brother's disappearance comes together. The goal is to escape the fate that befell him months earlier.

It suits players who liked Exmortis and anyone who likes a supernatural mystery told through a house and its secrets.

How to play Goliath The Soothsayer

1. Open Goliath The Soothsayer on Newgrounds and press play; it runs in the browser.
2. Click around the attic to look closer and find what can be used.
3. Solve your way out of the attic and through the house.
4. Piece together what happened to your brother from what you find.
5. Escape before his fate becomes yours.

Tips

• Check every corner of each scene; small objects are often the key.
• If you have played Exmortis, the same careful clicking pays off here.

Questions