History VideoGame / DreamsInTheWitchHouse2023

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: The player is regularly challenged with keeping Walter well-fed and rested, warm, and dry. Making him eat usually costs a ration, and he can recover from rain and cold by being near a lit fireplace, though if he uses the one at home, this means he will have to supply his own firewood. If Walter goes hungry, tired, cold, or wet for too long at a time, it will adversely affect his health, making him more susceptible to getting sick, make it harder for him to recover from injuries, and drag down his exam scores. On some days, the weather will affect Walter's wellbeing, and nightmares or strange noises in his apartment at night will conspire to ruin his sleep. The player can give Walter some more permanent protection against the weather by making him buy a raincoat or a pair of insulated trousers, and help him sleep better with a pair of earplugs, and certain medicines (or alcohol and cigarettes) will temporarily soothe his nerves as he gets into traumatizing encounters with the supernatural. Most of these thing costs money, and Walter is on a tight budget, as his only real income at the beginning of the game is his weekly allowance from his aunt, though she will give him a bonus if he does well on his exams. As the game progresses, Walter will find other ways of earning a bit of money.

* TimedMission: Walter has the months of March and April to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the Mason House, which translates to 60 in-day games. Depending on how much of the conspiracy Walter has uncovered at this point, one of the game's MultipleEndings will be triggered.

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: The player is regularly challenged with keeping Walter well-fed and rested, warm, and dry. Making him eat usually costs a ration, and he can recover from rain and cold by being near a lit fireplace, though if he uses the one at home, this means he will have to supply his own firewood. If Walter goes hungry, tired, cold, or wet for too long at a time, it will adversely affect his health, making him more susceptible to getting sick, make it harder for him to recover from injuries, and drag down his exam scores. On some days, the weather will affect Walter's wellbeing, and nightmares or strange noises his apartment at night will conspire to ruin his sleep. The player can give Walter some more permanent protection against the weather by making him buy a raincoat or a pair of insulated trousers, and help him sleep better with a pair of earplugs, and certain medicines (or alcohol and cigarettes) will temporarily soothe his nerves as he gets into traumatizing encounters with the supernatural. Most of these thing costs money, and Walter is on a tight budget, as his only real income at the beginning of the game is his weekly allowance from his aunt, though she will give him a bonus if he does well on his exams. As the game progresses, Walter will find other ways of earning a bit of money.

* TimedMission: Walter has the months of March and April to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the Mason, which translates to 60 in-day games. Depending on how much of the conspiracy Walter has uncovered at this point, one of the game's MultipleEndings will be triggered.

Being an outsider to Arkham, Walter finds a study apartment in a local boarding house owned by the elderly and somewhat crusty Ms. Dombrowski, and settles in, eager to begin his studies and one day present his theory. Walter, however, soon learns from one of his neighbors, the cryptic and aloof mechanic, Joe Mazurewicz, that the old house hides a terrible secret, related to its previous owner, Keziah Mason, as well as Walter's interest in the occult. Walter soon finds himself regularly haunted by horrible nightmares which threatens both his health and his sanity, and it is up to the player to help Walter not only pursue his studies, but keep him from losing both his life and his soul.

It is March 1929, and it is the beginning of a new semester at the prestigious Miskatonic University in the city of Arkham, Massachusetts. One of the new faces at the university is the young math student Walter Gilman. Walter seems to be have a promising future as mathematician ahead of him, but his true passions lie somewhere a bit more strange and esoteric. Outside of his studies of mathematics, Walter have also always had a keen interest in ancient folkelore and old religions, and now he aims to make a big impression on his academic field by combining these two livelong interests in his first semester term paper. Indeed, through extensive study of the Miskatonic University's impressive collection of texts on the occult and the employment of advanced and somewhat radical theories in math and physics, he plans to produce scientific evidence for the existence of magic.

* InVinoVeritas: When sober, Joe Mazurewicz isn't too eager to talk about the secrets of the Mason House. Walter has to ply him a bit with some alcohol before he becomes willing to share what he knows.

It is March 1929, and it is the beginning of a new semester at the prestigious Miskatonic University in the city of Arkham, Massachusetts. One of the new faces at the university is the young math student Walter Gilman. Walter seems to be have a promising future as mathematician ahead of him, but his true passions lie somewhere a bit more strange and esoteric. Outside of his studies of mathematics, Walter have also always had a keen interest in ancient folkelore and old religions, and now he aims to make a big impression on his academic field by combing these two livelong interests in his first semester term paper. Indeed, through extensive study of the Miskatonic University's impressive collection of texts on the occult and the employment of advanced and somewhat radical theories in math and physics, he plans to produce scientific evidence for the existence of magic.

It is March 1929, and it is the beginning of a new semester at the prestigious Miskatonic University in the city of Arkham, Massachusetts. One of the new faces at the university is the promising young math student Walter Gilman. Walter seems to be have a promising future as mathematician ahead of him, but his true passions lie somewhere a bit more strange and esoteric. Outside of his studies of mathematics, Walter have also always had a keen interest in ancient folkelore and old religions, and now he aims to make a big impression on his academic field by combing these two livelong interests in his first semester term paper. Indeed, through extensive study of the Miskatonic University's impressive collection of texts on the occult and the employment of advanced and somewhat radical theories in math and physics, he plans to produce scientific evidence for the existence of magic.

''Dreams in the Witch House'' is a [[WideOpenSandbox Open World]] {{Horror}} AdventureGame with RPGElements, based on [[Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse the 1933 short story of the same name]] by Creator/HPLovecraft, though it also borrows many other elements from Lovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos universe. It is developed by the indie developer Atom Brain Games, and was released in February 2023.

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: The player is regularly challenged with keeping Walter well-fed and rested, warm, and dry. Making him eat usually costs a ration, and he can recover from rain and cold by being near a lit fireplace, though if he uses the one at home, this means he will have to supply his own firewood. If Walter goes hungry, tired, cold, or wet for too long at a time, it will adversely affect his health, making him more susceptible to getting sick, make it harder for him to recover from injuries, and drag down his exam scores. On some days, the weather will affect Walter's wellbeing, and nightmares or strange noises his apartment at night will conspire to ruin his sleep. The player can give Walter some more permanent protection against the weather by making him buy a raincoat or a pair of insulated trousers, and help him sleep better with a pair of earplugs, and certain medicines (or alcohol and cigarettes) will temporarily soothe his nerves as he gets into traumatizing encounters with the supernatural. Most of these thing costs money, and Walter is on a tight budget, as his only real income at the beginning of the game is his weekly allowance from his aunt, though she will give him a bonus if he passes his exams with flying colors. As the game progresses, Walter will find other ways of earning a bit of money.

* SanityMeter: Walter's mental wellbeing can be gauged through his Sanity stat, which starts out at 10, but it increasingly lowers as he experiences more and more supernatural events and his Occult stats rises. Completing a task on his to-do-list or doing something comforting, like talking to one of his friends, allows him to occasionally replenish a little bit of Sanity.

* SanityMeter: Walter's mental wellbeing can be gauged through his Sanity stat, which starts out at 10, but it increasingly lowers as he experiences more and more supernatural events and his Occult stats rises. A task on his to-do-list or doing something comforting, like talking to one of his friends, allows him to occasionally replenish a little of Sanity.

''Dreams in the Witch House'' is a [[WideOpenSandbox Open World]] {{Horror}} AdventureGame with RPGElements, based on [[Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse the 1933 short story of the same name]] by Creator/HPLovecraft, though it also borrows many other elements from Lovecraft's ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'' universe. It is developed by the indie developer Atom Brain Games, and was released in February 2023.