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It does run on one of my older Macs.  There are one or two glitches with the graphics, but nothing that interferes with the story or puzzles.  The spooky atmosphere is great.  I remember getting into the house and stumbling around in the dark before I managed to turn the lights on.  I could feel the hairs on my neck standing up.

I think the secret is that it “runs on one of your older Macs.” That probably has to do more with its ability to run older versions of Quick Time than current PCs can.

Almost My Floor was a similar experience to Hob’s Barrow in my mind, although it’s more David Lynch rather than Lovecraft/folk horror. There were lots of true Lovecraft-inspired games released in the recent 5 years though — Dreams in the Witch House, Call of Cthulhu, The Sinking City, Chronicle of Innsmouth, etc., etc., haven’t played any of them, so can’t recommend, but they seem to get high scores, so it’s probably a good source to look for a similar experience. I also found The Witch’s House to be somewhat similar (despite it’s a completely different game), which is an old freeware Japanese game remade in 2018, as well as another Japanese adventure I’ve played recently about a little girl left in the woods who has to die many horrible deaths to win — I’m sure I even left a review somewhere on those forums, but I can’t recall the name of the game.

I can recommend Goetia, Year Walk, and Tormentum: Dark Sorrow.  All three have their share of creepiness.

A small remark: I just looked up the list of the last year’s freeware games for another thread and remembered the name of that other Japanese horror adventure (which was in fact freeware): Lily’s Well. A bit more oldschool in presentation, but well worth it.