The Horror at Highrook

Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 4.13/day in the week to Jul 20 → 0.33/day in the week after.

For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.

Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.

Hours played at review time, across 63 reviews with recorded playtime.

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This game is, in all honesty, close to being great. Horror at Highrook has a similar vibe to games like sunless sea or cultist simulator, and uses ambiance text, minimalist illustrations and card combination mechanics to immerse you in a lovecraftian thriller. The Cultist Simulator influence is obvious : writing style, art and lore do not feel novel and of lesser quality by comparison. I would have liked more it if there were a more interesting twist in the very straight forward scenario. Compared to Cultist Simulator, Horror at Highrook is very easy to win and you will not feel challenged. This lack of challenge combined with the repetitive gameplay loop kind of give a tedious feel to the game. Across the 8 chapters of the game, you will do the same things about three times with little to no novelty in the mechanics : unlock rooms, unlock objects, unlock character levels, unlock fragments of a ritual, assemble the pieces and do the ritual. The game really lacks ways to break this loop or find a way to make it more complex or interesting in the long run. At some point, I stopped reading the texts because the writing was kind of uninspired : you won't really find it interesting if you have some experience in lovecraftian stories, as everything is kind of bland. I kept playing because the game is rather short (7h) and the visual effects are nice. Overall, this is a good experience even if you don't read much of the text. The gameplay is perfectible but it's alright for a small game. Basically, it's good but lacks depth and is only worth it if you buy it on sale.