The Castles of Dr. Creep is a puzzle-platform game for the Commodore 64 written by Ed Hobbs and published by Broderbund in 1984. It takes place in thirteen medieval castles owned by the eponymous doctor, and the player's task is to escape from each castle. One- or two-player games are possible, allowing collaborative gaming for solving the puzzles. It was re-released via Steam on September 2, 2016,
Legacy
Jordan Mechner cited The Castles of Dr. Creep as one of the main inspirations for his 1989 game Prince of Persia.
A game enthusiast worked on a remake for the game starting in 2010 by reverse engineering the original. The source code is on GitHub under the GPLv3 license. The remake was released on Steam by the original author and the remake author in September 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux and Xbox in February 2023.