5 Days a Stranger

A screenshot of 5 Days a Stranger.

5 Days a Stranger is a freeware amateur adventure game created by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.. It chronicles the story of a gentleman thief known as Trilby and four others fighting an unknown terror in DeFoe Manor. The story progresses over 5 days, with more story being revealed each day. Dream sequences typically space out the transitions between the events of different days, and the game follows a system similar to that of the Gabriel Knight adventure game series, with a large number of verbs possible for interacting with objects, and a certain number of events which must be completed at a given point to progress to the next phase of the game.

The game was created in 2003 with the AGS engine, and won awards for best game created with the AGS engine in 2003, best gameplay, best dialogue scripting, best puzzles, and best scripting.

7 Days a Skeptic is the sequel to 5 Days a Stranger, and Trilby's Notes is an interquel between the two, although they work equally well played in their order of release, 5 Days, 7 Days, then Trilby's notes.

There is a special edition for $5 available.

External links

• The official 5 Days a Stranger site.
• Abandonia Reloaded entry
• The Home of the Underdogs entry for 5 Days a Stranger

AGS Awards for 5 Days a Stranger
Preceded by Kings Quest 2 VGA	Best Game in the year 2003	Succeeded by Apprentice 2
Preceded by 6 Day Assassin	Best Gameplay in the year 2003	Succeeded by Two of a Kind
Preceded by 6 Day Assassin	Best Puzzles in the year 2003	Succeeded by Apprentice 2
Preceded by The Trials of Odysseus Kent	Best Dialogue in the year 2003	Succeeded by Apprentice 2
Preceded by Kings Quest 2 VGA	Best Programming in the year 2003	Succeeded by Maniac Mansion Deluxe