The penultimate update is here. This update adds a new soundtrack and post-game content. Added

• Added loops. The end of each run will take you back to the beginning of a more difficult run with all of your items and abilities intact. Each loop has a different ending.
• Added 6 new songs that play on each biome.
• Added greyscale insanity effect.

Changed

• Lowered the difficulty of enemy spawn rates.
• Monster Hearts less likely to spawn.
• Other minor audio and visual changes.

Removed

• Removed that one god-awful song that started on the third floor.

[ 2021-03-27 02:16:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

In the House of Silence is a survival horror roguelike influenced by classic weird fiction.

Streamlined But Difficult

In the House of Silence is a traditional roguelike that features no RPG elements such as experience points, randomized damage, or even equippable items. However, this streamlining does not make the game any less difficult. Experience tactical depth that arises from digestible rules.

Stave Off Insanity

Manage your level of sanity as it diminishes with every turn. Loss of sanity will result in you getting an insanity effect which will alter your perceptions of reality.

Mutate Into Something Inhuman

Mutate to change gain new abilities at the expense of your sanity level and physical form.

Explore Procedurally Generated Environments

Explore the ever-changing the House of Silence, with each floor having its own unique feel through visuals, sounds, enemies, and map generators.

Fight or Flee

Choose to fight or sneak past the eldritch abominations that lurk in the darkness.