Your aunt’s dead, your cousin hates you, and you’re stuck in the dead-end town of Scarlet Hollow. Choose your path through a branching narrative so dense that you'll see less than 1/5 of the game on a single playthrough. You won't be able to save everyone. Good luck, and welcome home.
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About
From the developers of Slay the Princess, Scarlet Hollow is an immersive horror-mystery with sharp writing, impactful choices, and meticulously hand-drawn art.
Coal mines sealed off after a deadly collapse. Strange creatures preying on livestock. Houses infested with vengeful spirits. The sleepy town of Scarlet Hollow has suddenly come alive with horrors, just in time for your arrival. This was supposed to be a quiet getaway in the rural mountains of North Carolina. All you had to do was finally meet your long-lost cousin and comfort her through her mother’s funeral. But now, each new day welcomes new nightmares.
You only have to survive a week. But can you get to the bottom of the horrifying mysteries haunting Scarlet Hollow before they claim your life?
The first five episodes are available now, with one major content update planned before the story reaches its conclusion.
Features
A heavily branching narrative where your decisions (actually) matter. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey.
A complex paranormal mystery. Investigate haunted houses, strange sightings in the woods, a deteriorating mine, and more as you try and piece together what happened in Scarlet Hollow.
Trait-based dialogue and role-playing. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be. Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? Can you talk to animals? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds.
A dynamic relationship system that reacts to your every choice and changes how your story unfolds. People won't just like or dislike you. Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story.
Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids.
No jumpscares. All of the horror in Scarlet Hollow comes from dread, tension, and a sprinkle of disturbing imagery.
A touch of romance. Whether you're into goths, dads, moms, paranormal investigators, mysterious recluses, or actual monsters, you'll find something waiting for you here. And if you'd rather avoid that entirely, your story won't be any less for it.
Hundreds of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. Every background in the game is hand drawn and inked by Ignatz-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard.
Fully immersive art. Each major character has dozens—and often hundreds—of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes.
Genres
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 76 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 76 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
Une histoire très intéressante avec des choix et une ambiance incroyable
Um sonho e um prato cheio para qualquer fã de visual novels.
Amazing storygame with good character writing, deep lore and fun interactions
Gotta love stabitha dynamic in episode 5.
I've never played a game with this level of replay value. Every single playthrough feels different, and its so fun to try and plan your route when you know what's going to happen! It's impossible to get every hint to the mystery in one run and that makes it so juicy to try new things. Characters are great and very well written. Fantastic game!
Made from the same studio as Slay The Princess, and it shows. Captivating hand-drawn art along side a great story.
I love the creepy-cozy vibes of this game, and it feels infinitely replayable. The traits you give your character open up rich new avenues of exploration. Scarlet Hollow is an exceptional visual novel/choose-your-own adventure game. I've already played through twice and want to play more with different choices to see what happens. Highly recommend.
Acabo de llegar al episodio 5 y puedo decir sin género de dudas que es uno de los mejores juegos narrativos que he jugado: la historia es muy interesante, con momentos muy buenos de horror y suspense (de los currados, bien construidos, cero jumpscares baratos) y te atrapa desde el inicio, La atmósfera es genial, los personajes son variados en carácter y muy carismáticos y tiene una rejugabilidad tremenda, tanto por la cantidad de ramas de elecciones que puedes tomar, con resultados muy diferentes, hasta el mismo hecho de que nada más empezar tienes que elegir el género de tu personaje y dos cualidades de varias que te ofrecen, que hacen que tu personaje tenga opciones de diálogo o acciones especiales a lo largo de la historia, incluso presentando a veces sinergias entre ellas. A nivel narrativo, las opciones son honestas (nada de elegir una decisión y que tu personaje haga algo tangencialmente diferente) y no son "dirigidas" -por ejemplo, que tengas una cualidad que te permita tomar una decisión especial en un momento dado no significa que sea la opción correcta-, pero la forma en que se aborda la toma de decisiones te permite pensar en lo que haces aplicando un poco de lógica e introspección, de forma que pase lo que pase nunca te sientes "traicionado" por la narrativa o sientes que has hecho una mala elección. De verdad se siente que vas tejiendo tu propia historia de entre las muchísimas opciones que se te presentan. Yo lo cogí en las rebajas, pero incluso al precio completo es un juego absolutamente recomendable. 10/10
Scarlet Hollow is a fantastic Southern Gothic/slight Cosmic Horror game.
Absolutely incredible game, the story and characters are all top tier I highly recommend this game for anyone who loves games where your choices really matter.
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Engagement
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Audience
Audience
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