The House Before

Gabriel Helfenstein

You wake up as a House. Your bones are pipes and tunnels. Your organs are a labyrinth of caves. The House Before is a narrative body horror adventure where you play as a monstrous structure filled with strange creatures.

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Overview

You wake up as a House.

Your limbs stretch through endless rooms filled with grotesque creatures. You can never see outside of yourself, never feel the world that lies beyond your flesh.

Every corner of your anatomy is seething with terror. Every inch of your skin is painted with intricate wounds, etched long before you were born.

And yet, there is life inside you: shapeless haunts, organic material with barely any purpose, save to despise you for crimes committed aeons ago.

GAMEPLAY:

The House Before is an interactive horror story about the wreckages of history and the terror of being trapped inside one's own body.  

The game blends elements of visual novels and adventure with simple mini-games.  

The House Before takes around 2 hours to complete and is mostly a linear experience.  You will enjoy it if you are looking for an original story and a poetic horror atmosphere.  It probably won’t be for you if you’re looking for a fast-paced action experience, jump scares or complex puzzles.

FEATURES:

Explore your guts.

Heal old wounds.

Be a good House.

Suffer.

Procreate.

Be better than the House Before.

Genres

AdventureIndie

Ways to play

  • Single-player
  • Controller

Weak PC? It still plays

Play The House Before on a weak PC

The House Before needs at least 4 GB of RAM. Cloud PC is a Windows computer with a strong GPU in the cloud. You control it from your laptop, phone or desktop.

1

Turn on Cloud PC

Log in to Thinkmay and start your machine. You get a Windows desktop of your own.

2

Install the game

Install The House Before from Steam as you would at home.

3

Play on any device

Play on a laptop, phone or desktop. Controllers and microphones work.

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