Uncle Henry's Playhouse was a compilation game made up of the puzzles from Trilobyte

Trilobyte

Trilobyte is a computer game developer founded in December 1990 by Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. They are well known in the computer game industry for The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour games, and to a lesser extent for Clandestiny and other titles.- Logo :The official company logo consists of a...

's games The 7th Guest

The 7th Guest

The 7th Guest, produced by Trilobyte and released by Virgin Games in 1993, is an FMV-based puzzle video game. It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD-ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player, as an amnesiac...

, The 11th Hour

The 11th Hour (computer game)

The 11th Hour is a 1995 puzzle computer game with a horror setting. It is the sequel to the 1992 game The 7th Guest. It was developed by Trilobyte and used a later version of the "Groovie" graphic engine than that used by The 7th Guest...

, and Clandestiny

Clandestiny

Clandestiny, published in 1996 by Virgin Games and developed by Trilobyte, is a video-based puzzle computer game. After the profit loss of The 11th Hour, the second game created by Trilobyte, the producers went on to make a more kid-friendly version of the The 7th Guest series...

. As a last ditch effort for some funding, Trilobyte combined all of the puzzles from the games that had made them big into one game, minus the storylines.

Gameplay

Uncle Henry's Playhouse played like that of all the previous games: a simple point and click interface for puzzles. Unlike the others there was no storyline as it is just the puzzles from the preceding games.

Reception

The game was not well-received critically and sales capped at 27 copies in the US with only 176 copies worldwide. Amongst other problems, the game's plot has been singled out by reviewers as lacking.