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House of Hell (Standalone) cover art

House of Hell (Standalone)

Tin Man Games · 2016-01-19

Steam

AdventureIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 19, 2016 (Linux), Jan 19, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 19, 2016 (Mac)

YOU are the hero in House of Hell! Can you escape from the Earl of Drumer's malevolent mansion in Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy classic RPG gamebook?

87%
positive of 69 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 60% of 17,648 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.7k–4.1k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 69 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.85 at GameBillet (2025-11-21)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 70 of 96 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420162026Week of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.852016-01-192026-09-042016-01-19 — best price $9.992016-11-08 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $1.992018-08-02 — best price $2.492018-12-20 — best price $2.492019-10-28 — best price $3.992020-06-25 — best price $1.992020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-10-28 — best price $1.992022-05-23 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $1.492023-03-02 — best price $4.992023-05-01 — best price $4.142023-06-20 — best price $4.142023-07-25 — best price $4.442023-12-21 — best price $3.042024-02-19 — best price $2.292024-03-18 — best price $2.242024-04-01 — best price $4.992024-09-16 — best price $4.992025-01-20 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $1.992025-09-22 — best price $4.992025-10-22 — best price $1.722025-11-09 — best price $4.122025-12-01 — best price $0.892025-12-19 — best price $1.252026-03-04 — best price $4.192026-03-26 — best price $1.222026-05-13 — best price $4.992026-06-01 — best price $4.192026-06-13 — best price $4.192026-07-11 — best price $1.252026-08-01 — best price $4.942026-09-04 — best price $4.09
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

RPGIndieAdventureChoose Your Own Adventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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