You gotta love Lovecraft. You don’t, but I do. Lovecraftian game The Dreams in the Witch House will be coming to a PC near you in the year 2023, courtesy of Atom Brain Games.
Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, you must survive two months of nightly terrors, facing the ultimate fear: the May-Eve witch ritual. You know the one. Fusing RPG, open-world and adventure setting, the gameplay is non-linear, and many elements are randomly generated. Forget about a walkthrough!
Couple years ago when I re-read The Dreams in the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft, I quickly realised that it would make a perfect survival adventure game. Unlike with my previous attempts to finish making a video game, this time my motivation was strong, because of my love for the source material.Developer, Antti Laakso
Key features in The Dreams in the Witch House include:
- Unique mix of adventure game and open world survival game
- You have 60 days to prepare for the May-Eve witch sabbath
- Day / evening / night -cycles
- RPG elements: health, sanity, occult & maths skills
- Random city activities and encounters
- Creeping tension: otherworldly threats intensify gradually
- Several endings depending on player’s actions with 10–20 hours of playtime
- Plenty of detailed animation and visual effects
- Original soundtrack by genre favourite Troy Sterling Nies
Here’s a trailer from a while back:
I played the demo during Steam Next Fest, and it shows promise. Keep your eyes on your Steam calendar…
