From the review, "What’s worse than the puzzles (and scarier than anything the characters in Wayward Manor might experience) are the game-breaking glitches. Too often the cursor used to interact with the world would become an impotent hourglass icon, incapable of anything but evoking frustration. Objects clipping through one another is a sign that corners may have been cut and when essential puzzle elements become unintentionally unclickable with unfathomable regularity, it becomes hard to forgive them as merely a pratfall of the medium. On the plus side, visual glitches can sometimes be humorous. [Benjamin Maltbie hasn't] any idea what Wayward Manor’s anti-hero might look like, but I can guarantee that he or she can look no more horrific than this one time the otherwise forgettable Madame Budds’s lady bits decided to go rogue.Or are they just wonky by design?"
Too cute to really be classified as a true horror game, Wayward Manor produces many strange and silly puzzles to leave players scratching their head.
Jake Richards writes: "This is some Frankenstein's monster gone terribly wrong; gurgling, wide-eyed, pleading for the sweet release of a merciful death. Then your gun jams. Where to begin? It looks bad. Like Psychonauts: not only in style - which is good - but in the year it was released: 2006 - which is bad. ... I can't recommend this despite my love of all things Neil [Gaiman]. Got ten, 15 bucks burning a hole in your pocket? Buy one of his books."
GameGrin's Ruth Krabacher writes: "I, for one, am always ready for a good evil house story. Haunting of Hill House, House of Leaves—you name it, I’m there for it. There’s just something about the idea of a sentient house that’s always appealed to me. Not necessarily in a good way, but in the same way as reading about UFO sightings or Bigfoot encounters. I’ve always been fond of the idea of things that exist in the shadows and back-roads of human civilization. Unsurprisingly, then, Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite authors."
