


The opening theme for the game is called Consumite Furore, which translates to "Expend Your Rage," and was written by Mark Seibert based on an English text by Roberta Williams. The picture that sits on the night stand in the character's bedroom found a new home in the couple's living room after the game was finished. Victoria Morsell, who plays Adrienne, and David Homb, who plays Don, started dating a week after they began filming together. As the game progresses, the bottle goes from full to nearly empty before it is removed from the bar altogether. In the bar on the first floor there is a bottle of absinthe.

Puzzle-solving element is present, though reduced compared to most other adventure games made by Sierra. She inspects various rooms, finds items, adds them to her inventory, finds places to use the items, and triggers advancements in the plot. Adrienne is represented as a digitized character roaming around pre-rendered settings in the house. Phantasmagoria is an adventure game that places heavy emphasis on full motion video for exposition and cutscenes at various junctures to advance the storyline. Adrienne must discover the secret of the house before the unknown force consumes her husband, and unravel the terrible events that have happened in the past. Furthermore, the house is having a severe effect on her husband, changing him for the worse.

Shortly after moving in, Adrienne begins to experience horrifying nightmares and have odd encounters inside the creepy old abode. A writer named Adrienne Delaney has just moved into an old mansion with her photographer husband Donald.
