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Is A House of Many Doors worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want exploration alongside turn-based combat
- Readers of branching fiction who want poems and story choices in a game
- Players drawn to surreal settings and a large collection of unusual locations
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a combat-focused RPG, since combat is one of several listed activities
- Players who prefer a compact story, given the more than 300,000 words of branching text and over 90 locations
- Players looking for a realistic or familiar setting rather than strange dimensions and locations
Our take on A House of Many Doors
Instead of keeping its story within a single familiar world, the game places exploration in a dimension that takes places from other worlds. Its mechanical-legged train, branching prose, and generated poems give the RPG an unusual literary and surreal emphasis.
What is A House of Many Doors?
A House of Many Doors is a 2D exploration RPG set in a dimension that steals from other worlds.
Travel through it aboard a train with mechanical legs, lead a crew, open locked doors, and uncover secrets. The game combines exploration and turn-based combat with branching story text and procedurally generated poems. Its more than 90 locations include a city of the dead, a village illuminated by a god’s burning corpse, and a library where spider-things accept teeth in exchange for a moment inside. Players take the roles of explorer, poet, and spy, with activities such as rigging an election or trading teeth for library access. The story contains more than 300,000 words of original branching text.
How A House of Many Doors plays
- 01Branching story
- The narrative contains more than 300,000 words of original text.
- 02Procedural poems
- The game generates poems, with the vendor citing more than 770 trillion possible results.
- 03Train exploration
- A train with mechanical legs carries the crew through a dimension containing more than 90 locations.
- 04Turn-based combat
- Combat is one part of a game that also includes exploration, crew leadership, and story choices.
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A House of Many Doors: platforms & release
Is A House of Many Doors worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want exploration alongside turn-based combat. Skip it if: players seeking a combat-focused RPG, since combat is one of several listed activities.
Where can I download A House of Many Doors?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens A House of Many Doors's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is A House of Many Doors on?
Windows and macOS.
