One of our favorite games this Halloween, and a very cinematic one so we recommend playing this on a big screen with a good 4K 60Hz projector. There’s no need for very high refresh rates, it’s a slow-paced game with an emphasis on choice and atmosphere.
The story revolves around a group of CIA agents and US marines that enter an ancient underground city during the summer of 2003. Inevitably, they run into all sorts of dangerous things in the darkness of the subterranean realm. Made by Supermassive Games, House of Ashes uses their well-known formula of movie-like pacing and multiple choice events dictating the plot, so you have a lot of control over what happens and the kind of ending you’ll get.
Influences on this game include horror movie series The Descent among others, and Supermassive have implemented more gunplay this time because the characters are all military types. We say this time since this is the third Dark Pictures game, with Man of Medan and Little Hope preceding it since the debut of the series in 2019. Fortunately, there will be a fourth game in the series, likely to release in the summer of 2022. Supermassive really hit on a successful concept when they released Until Dawn in 2015, back when they had a partnership with Sony.
As for House of Ashes, you can play it on pretty much anything, including PC, PS5, and Xbox Series.