Funnily enough, I've now stuck myself in 7 Days (I was determined to get over my fear but had to do it with my eyes closed every time I ran through a room, so that didn't work that well) even though there are no intentional screw-over points in it - I've saved in a place where the Welder jumps in and hacks me to bits as soon as I load, and my other save is back at the escaping escape pod sequence again. More a result of slightly inconsiderate design rather than malice - I'm sure it wouldn't have been difficult to stop the two assailants in the "you are being hunted by an instant-death enemy that could appear through any door at any moment" sequences from popping up when you're standing outside the door in question.

In those chase sequences it has something much like the feeling of Clock Tower, like a nightmare where you're continually hunted by an unstoppable enemy. That was another thing I played for about five minutes before switching off (shortly after finding the body in the shower, as it happens. 5 Days parodies that by getting you to nervously approach a drawn shower curtain and move it aside, only for Trilby to say "Well, that was anticlimactic".

I'm fairly certain that you could get a sceptre from one of the coffins, but I can't remember what it did. The last openable one contained a banshee which escaped and screeched at you, but unusually for Shadowgate, didn't kill you.

(Continued via email, realized it was sent to wrong address, had palpitations, turned out to be a non-existent domain, PMed, emailed, or something)