The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

At the close of the Iraq War, Special Forces hunting for weapons of mass destruction unearth something far deadlier – a buried Sumerian temple containing a nest of unearthly creatures. To survive the night below, they must forge a brotherhood with their enemies from the world above.

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes is a choices matter, horror and survival horror game developed by Supermassive Games and published by BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe.
Released on October 21st 2021 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 8,175 reviews of which 7,222 were positive and 953 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam and has a 67% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes into these genres:

Choices Matter Horror Survival Horror Psychological Horror Multiple Endings Action-Adventure Dynamic Narration Story Rich Nonlinear Demons Military Atmospheric Mythology Adventure Mystery 3D Dark 1990's Supernatural Third Person

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K or AMD FX-8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 65 GB available space
Additional Notes: Estimated performance: 1080p/60fps with graphics settings at "Low". Framerate might drop in graphics-intensive scenes. - 64-bit processor and operating system are required.

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Best of the Dark Pictures, they did Ashley dirty with that game model but the story was very good with some awesome characters and development.

Sept. 2024

HoA is pretty damn great. Price is a little steep when one run can take 5ish hours. But there are so many permutations to check out, which can lead to more replays. And the graphical quality is great. Even just a couple bucks off would make it worth it, regardless. Only real complaints are how stiff your characters can feel during the walking sections (not the end of the world) and how eye-rolling the love triangle stuff was (thankfully pretty infrequent). This is my favorite episode of Selim the Vampire Slayer. 9/10

April 2024

This title includes two of my all time favourite things: archeology and sci-fi horror. However, I think mid-production they forgot this was supposed to be a interactive video game, albeit with its cinematic quirks here and there & NOT a movie. It was still a lot of fun and honestly unnerving but I'm sorry, this is not a video game. Buy it on sale. ps. I love Salim

March 2024

Egyptian mythology, military drama, and vampires; all rolled into a horror drama that the player can't put down. Players will spend marathon session after marathon session exploring every aspect of this interactive narrative that it's creators have meticulously combined into an awesome horror experience. The multitude of possibilities that every playthrough can take will occupy the player for some time. Rated 7 out of 10.

Jan. 2024

Decent horror adventure, better than Man of Medan, however Little Hope still holds the lead in my opinion. The premise is good—US soldiers in Iraq go to find WMDs in a remote desert location but they end up in an underground ancient temple full of horrors—unfortunately the execution is lacking. Good additions include faster movement (still slow) and better controls with mouse/keyboard (still clumsy). It does often give you control with more traditional close third-person perspective and going down dark tunnels in this way does help make it more "naturally" scary even though most of the time nothing happens. Expanding on this, there are quite a few times when the game lets you manually walk for just a few seconds then does its usual cutscene malarkey, which got jarring and annoying,. The underground area is actually often boring to explore, outside a few iconic spots, because it’s mostly bland and empty tunnels or halls. The main enemy monsters are lame imo, partly because characters survive just fine when they’re ragdolled by their huge claws or manage to escape unscathed after being stuck under them. The characters idiotically keep going deeper, often for no good reason. Speaking of characters, they’re okay but 3 are somewhat gimped by a bleh love triangle. The Iraqi was not in it enough. The leading lady has bug-eye syndrome and eliminates all the good will she established at the end when she says she didn’t need anybody’s help to survive, despite being saved a handful of times. The game has pretty strong The Descent movie vibes (echoed by the leading lady) and this helps it more than it hinders, but also highlights some shortcomings. With a bit of tweaking it could have been great.

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