# Heart of the House

Summer DB entity ID: 37bc6582\-275c\-49e4\-a501\-78d46c3b0466

Steam App ID: 742150

Destroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor\! As an orphan, you discovered your ability to commune with the spirit world and ghosts\. When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey to find out what really happened\. With your trusty companion Devanand at your side, you make your way to Darnecroy Manor, where Kent was last seen\. It is\.\.\.The House\.   Heart of the House  is 360,000\-word interactive Gothic novel by Nissa Campbell\. It's entirely text\-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.   Within the manor, you'll encounter the master, Lord Bastian Reaves; his mysterious servants, Oriana and Loren; and the thousands of spirits teeming around and in this haunted mansion\. But will you shatter the power that binds the ghosts to the House, or claim it for yourself? Can love bloom in a haunted house? Most importantly, how will you escape when the House comes for you?     Play as male, female, or non\-binary; gay, straight, bi, ace, or poly    Explore the halls of the House, even as they seem to shift before your eyes    Encounter ghosts, spirits, and echoes, as you search for your lost Uncle Kent    Fight against an ancient evil or embrace its demonic gifts    Indulge in steamy, chaste, sweet, or provocative romances, or go it alone    Exploit the secrets you find for self\-serving ends or use them to help your friends    Defeat your greatest fears in bone\-chilling moments of terror\.\.\.if you can    Choose whom you can save, if anyone, from the horrors the House contains   For some, there may be no escape from The Heart of the House\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Oct 26, 2017

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Adventure, Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_e50e0b753f1cb4b7eb3d987c279ef6fa7ffb4ebe\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_6496118fad463bba010b9a653ddb2039c690d1c6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_dc111368e95b6341e5004927bb198b5a6d75ecd7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_cccc66cb6c8117dbd9d51f9c5aee210bb157c3ed\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_0b4cd77fa9f9d75528250a45ed6591feef6f65e2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/742150/ss\_165b0298fb95ee38b5f330e1a228f2fb673db355\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734038345

- Price: 699 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 78

- Steam positive reviews: 70

- Steam negative reviews: 8

- Steam positive percentage: 89.74358974358974%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/37bc6582-275c-49e4-a501-78d46c3b0466/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/37bc6582-275c-49e4-a501-78d46c3b0466/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:35\.508544\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:36\.816286\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-23T05:25:36\.562782\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/742150/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/37bc6582-275c-49e4-a501-78d46c3b0466)