Horror Story: Hallowseed is a story-driven psychological horror game. An obscure event causes two of your friends to disappear while you were camping in the woods. Left alone and stranded in an unknown place, you need to seek the answers about what happened, face the horror and find your friends.
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Mixed (228) - 67% of the 228 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Oct 28, 2021
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“Horror Story: Hallowseed is a thrilling atmospheric horror indie game. Nice environnement, jumpscare, exploration to collect items and clues in a creppy house, A promising start! (game in ea)”
Gaming Grandma

“With the gloomy graphics adding to the mise-en-scene behind the story, and with the creepy tone of the environment supported by haunting audio, Hallowseed cooks up a storm.”
Rapid Reviews UK

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About This Game

The game
Horror Story: Hallowseed is a single-player story-driven psychological horror adventure game that takes place in the fictional location, Hallowseed. Viewed from a first-person perspective, the beautifully rendered environment not only contains various puzzles but is also controlled by an advanced AI that reacts to the player’s choices and actions, activating random scare events.



The story
You were camping in the woods with two friends when an obscure event caused you to lose consciousness and wake up alone in an unknown, strange place. Explore your surroundings, look for clues in mysterious locations, run and hide from the dark spirits awakened by your presence. Do your best to survive, find your friends and uncover the mysteries hidden deep within Hallowseed – a place forgotten by time, damned and gripped by mysterious demonic terror!



Key Features:
  • Rich story - The player is driven by the story of a village whose inhabitants were seduced by an obscure power and condemned to darkness. While seeking to save his friends, the protagonist, Michael, will uncover what role he plays in all this tragedy.
  • Uncanny puzzles – You will encounter and need to solve various puzzles in order to progress the story. Stay vigilant and always on the lookout for clues anywhere around you!
  • Tense atmosphere - Immersive sound design and stunning visuals that will always keep you on your toes.
  • Micro-scares system - A system of random scary events that activate based on how you interact with the environment and will make you jump from your chair (or couch). Try different playthroughs with different choices to experience different scares!
  • Terrifying AI – It’s not easy to escape the horrors around you. There’s always a way to survive, but you may need several tries to get it right.
  • Inspired by Horror Movie Classics - Insidious, The Conjuring and The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
  • Hallowseed is the first chapter in the Horror Story series by Jeff Winner, stay tuned for more!

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

There are several instances with blood spatters and other scenes of gore involving previous sacrifices that were made with deeps wounds in those sacrificed
There are demonic possessed people!

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS *: Windows 7 / 8 / 10 64-bits
    • Processor: Core i3
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 1GB VRAM, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 4870
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 15 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
    • Additional Notes: HD 30 to 60 fps
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bits
    • Processor: Core i5 3.20ghz
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050ti with 6GB VRAM / Radeon™ RX 480 with 3GB Video RAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 15 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
    • Additional Notes: Ultra HD 4k 60 fps
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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