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Is The Horror at Highrook worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy text-heavy occult mystery stories
- RPG fans who want nonlinear crafting and team management
- Players willing to experiment with unusual narrative game structures
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for voice-acted storytelling rather than substantial written text
- Players seeking a straightforward, combat-focused RPG instead of investigation, crafting, and resource management
- Players who prefer short campaigns over an eight-chapter narrative
Our take on The Horror at Highrook
Its defining structure is the combination of card-based crafting with a written investigation, requiring characters, items, and locations to be brought together into occult tools and rites.
What is The Horror at Highrook?
Guide a team of occult investigators through a haunted mansion while searching for a missing noble family.
Manage hunger, injury, madness, and disease, with each investigator contributing distinct skills and private ambitions. Combine characters, items, and locations to create tools, potions, protections, and occult rites through a nonlinear crafting system. The story spans eight chapters, with new events, characters, challenges, and areas to discover. Complete challenges, collect relics, summon or banish ancient entities, and confront supernatural disasters. A library of notes and letters reveals Highrook’s history. The game contains substantial written narrative and has no voice acting.
How The Horror at Highrook plays
- 01Occult Card Crafting
- Cards representing people, objects, and places can be combined into tools, potions, protections, and rituals.
- 02Investigator Management
- The team must be maintained through threats including hunger, injury, madness, and disease.
- 03Eight-Chapter Story
- The campaign introduces new events, characters, and challenges across eight chapters.
- 04Lore Collection
- Notes and letters provide additional material about Highrook’s past and its missing family.
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The Horror at Highrook: platforms & release
Is The Horror at Highrook worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy text-heavy occult mystery stories. Skip it if: players looking for voice-acted storytelling rather than substantial written text.
Where can I download The Horror at Highrook?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Horror at Highrook's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Horror at Highrook on?
Windows only.
