Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.
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Very Positive (365) - 84% of the 365 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Feb 3, 2017
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“A formidable writing achievement – I mean that both in terms of volume and in terms of crafting a world in which the reader/player can luxuriate.”
Rock Paper Shotgun

About This Game

Welcome to the House. You are not welcome.

Explore the House, a parasite dimension that steals from other worlds, in a train that scuttles on mechanical legs.

Uncover secrets. Open locked doors. Lead a crew of dysfunctional characters. Write procedurally-generated poems. Fight in turn-based combat. Explore a strange new setting, dripping with atmosphere, crusted with lore. Escape. Escape. Escape.

You are an explorer, poet and spy, launching yourself into the unknown in search of adventure. Rig an election in the city of the dead. Visit a village lit by the burning corpse of a god (careful not to inhale the holy smoke). Sell your teeth to skittering spider-things for a moment in their library. Over 90 bizarre locations await discovery in the dust and the dark.

A House of Many Doors is a 2D exploration RPG that takes inspiration from Sunless Sea, China Mieville, Planescape: Torment and Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. It features over 300,000 words of branching original story and over 770 trillion bad poems.

WARNING.

Please be aware that this game contains the following romance options:
  • Men.
  • Women.
  • Goatman.
  • Ten million crows.
  • An oil rig.

A House of Many Doors has benefited from the kind support and partial funding of Failbetter Games, makers of Sunless Sea and Fallen London.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains textual descriptions of violence and textual depictions of drug and alcohol abuse.

System Requirements

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macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 & 11
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 9.0
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10 & 11
    • Processor: 2GHz+
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512MB
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OS X
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Mac OS X
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Storage: 400 MB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

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