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== Overview == The series is also sometimes called the DeFoe series, after one of the main characters; the Trilby series, after another main character; or the "X Days a Sauerkraut," based on Croshaw's own references. The author commentary for ''6 Days a Sacrifice'' confirms ''Chzo Mythos'' as Yahtzee's intended title, despite referring to it several times on the official sites as the "John Defoe Quadrilogy". In ''5 Days a Stranger'', the player controls the shady cat burglar Trilby, who stumbles across a demonic force that manifests itself as a masked killer in the tradition of [[Jason Voorhees]] or [[Michael Myers (Halloween)|Michael Myers]], while finding himself one of a group of strangers thrown together in an abandoned mansion, inspired by [[Nocturnal Illusion]], and being picked off one by one. ''7 Days a Skeptic'' emulates the claustrophobic horror of ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', following a spaceship crew that finds artifacts from the first game floating in space, four hundred years after the events of ''5 Days a Stranger''. ''Trilby's Notes'', set in a hotel which exists in both the real world and a horrific alternate dimension in the style of ''[[Silent Hill]]'', goes back to flesh out the origin of the cursed African idol from the other games. While the first two games use the point and click interface typical of recent adventure games, ''Trilby's Notes'' requires the player to move with the keyboard and type commands with a text [[parser]], similarly to early [[Sierra On-Line]] games like [[King's Quest]] I-IV. ''6 Days a Sacrifice'' completes the set, sitting in the timeline exactly halfway between ''5 Days'' and ''7 Days''. Yahtzee's later game, '''''Trilby: The Art of Theft''''', features the character's exploits before the series, but is not connected to it thematically, story-wise or gameplay-wise. The games have featured on various PC magazine cover disks, and were mentioned as an "excellent series" and given a brief review in an article on [[Adventure Game Studio]] in the February 2006 edition of [[PC Gamer]]. ''5 Days a Stranger'' is mentioned as a good example of a game created with [[Adventure Game Studio]] in the book ''Gaming Hacks'' published by [[O'Reilly Media]]<ref>[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gaminghks/inx.html O Reilly's Gaming Hacks index: 5 Days a Stranger] cited 15 December 2006</ref> "Special editions" of each game were sold for $5 (US), but are now available for free. They contain small extra scenes, supplemental material such as music, and the option to play with a DVD-style author's commentary track. Yahtzee's text elaborates on his aims and design choices, lists sources of inspiration, clarifies the more mystical parts of the plotline and provides other background information, such as the history of mental illness in his family and being dropped on his head as a child. Although only officially released for [[Microsoft Windows]], the games can be ran on [[Linux]] and [[Mac OS]] systems using the respective ports of the [[Adventure Game Studio#Capabilities|Adventure Game Studio runtime engine]]. In addition [[Ryan C. Gordon|icculus.org]] hosts Linux native binaries of all the games, as well ''Trilby: The Art of Theft'', utilizing the Linux runtime.<ref>[http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com/the-chzo-mythos-for-gnulinux-released/ The Chzo Mythos For GNU/Linux Released!] Linux Gaming News, August 11, 2010 (Article by Maxim Bardin)]</ref>
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