The game was released exclusively in Japan in 1994 as part of the Ghost Hunter dungeon crawler series, which also includes Laplace no Ma and Paracelsus no Maken from the same developer.
Thirty years prior to the start of the game, the mansion owner's wife, child, and three friends were brutally murdered in a kind of ritual.
They are the mystic Kenichiro Kusakabe, the detective Alex Quinn, the journalist Morgan Dylan, and the scientist Vincent Hoffman.
The project was led by Hitoshi Yasuda, the creator of the Ghost Hunter series, which originated on NEC PCs with Laplace no Ma and Paracelsus no Maken.
[1] Next Generation reviewed the game as "Ghost Hunter", rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "it's important to being mention that, being from Japan, it's entirely in Japanese.