This thread is sort of a spin-off of
my previous thread. In the course of discussion, Bobsson pointed out "Dark Tower", an 80s game from Microzine that fit what I was looking for pretty closely. So, major kudos to him.
However, in my searches with his new information, I kept seeing "Crickety Manor" mentioned. A lot of people remembered playing it, but nobody could provide a screenshot, a disk image, or any further description. (And amusingly, a lot of the pages only mentioned Crickety Manor to say that they couldn't find any information on it.) So I was wondering if anyone here would be able to furnish more information.