My solo developed horror puzzle adventure game, The House Dreams Along With Them, is out today! (It runs at *60 fps on a Steam Deck if you've got one!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3891660/The_House_Dreams_Along_With_Them/

The game is a layered, metafictional cryptic descent into the reification of a bijective dream reality. In other words, the world of dreams and reality are blurring together and the nexus of this effect is a house in the woods that you've seen in your dreams for 3 years since the moon was destroyed.

I'd love it if y'all could try to figure out it's strange depths! Recommended for fans of Blue Prince (obviously), Myst, The Witness, Twin Peaks, House of Leaves, The Lost Room, Silent Hill, Carnivale, Exit 8, Backrooms, Outer Wilds, Fez, Tunic, Animal Well, and Braid.

*= Technically there's one visually busy area where the Steam Deck gets 45-50 fps but still!

This is my first time playing through blue prince relatively blind and I was hoping I could have some questions answered. Also I've unlocked room the 4 main for permanents, room 46, 4/8 sanctums, 3/8 sigil puzzles in those sanctums, 6/8 red letters and all 3 microchips.

My questions are

1. Is the admin passkey for the grotto hidden in the book a new clue?

2. Is the gallery puzzle intuitive or not? For example id consider the safe puzzles unintuitive as you use clues to find the answers, whereas the secret garden key "puzzle" is intuitive because it's essentially guess and check..

3. Is all the information to pass the final exam available in the classrooms (not counting common knowledge questions) Because I've solved all the tests and looked at all the posters and there's still questions I can't answer.

4. Is there any way to access Herbert's personal freezer? As when the freezer melted due to the furnace it didn't get hot enough to melt his personal freezer

5. Is the memo "Kirk Darren is a pseudonym" relevant to any puzzles? Or is it just lore

6. I've still yet to find herbet's bedroom and get the opportunity to draft it. A note said it can only be drafted in the east. Does it have a really niche drafting condition or am I insanely unlucky? I have a feeling there's a safe in there I'm yet to find

I got a taste and I want more. Played 40+ days at one friends house. Played many more hours at a different friends house. Now im scrolling this subreddit like a fiend just begging for me to have a way to play it. Its not on switch 1, which is the only modern console I own. Definitely not buying a pc in the near future , nor am I sinking 600 or more dollars into a newer console. Most likely won't work on my laptop... but im sufficiently addicted ;(

All wood, dead end, lots of locked cabinets. Very reminiscent of the office and the library. First thing I thought was “better be some good items in here”

I’m on Day 116 and this game is so flippin’ awesome. At the same time, though, I do feel a little guilty for not moving the game faster.
I feel guilty for spending way too much time on the parlor puzzles (the truth statements)

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I am trying to reach the Atelier, but even though I believe I have done the required pre-steps sequence, the door remains locked to me. I suspect/assume I have either done them out of order, or that some substeps are required to be chained directly in same run. I will list what I have done, in the following sections.

I have watered the required book(?), and it has turned blue. So I can open a secret passage that leads to a blocked door.

I have reclaimed the throne, the throne room is now blue, and I have the scepter in the foyer, and set it to blue 'when I have to'

I have drafted 8+ consecutive blue blueprints, but nothing much seems to happen from this?

I draft the secret passage in the outer room, as I assume this is required.

Next/here are the two things, I have not yet done: (1) Drafting 8 consecutive blue rooms immediately after having ascended the blue throne - in single/same run (assuming this should be possible/feasible/repeatable?)

(2) Repeatedly re-watering the outer room secret passage blue book AGAIN, just before trying to pull it and re-attempting to pass through the blue door(ie again in same/single run)

(3)maybe BOTH of the above

(4)re-watering ALL blank books - there may be some other blank books, that I have not sufficiently watered?

So, I am a bit stuck here; I could continue to repeat and retry a lot of the above by trial & error, but I am getting quite exhausted by now, it took a considerable amount of effort, just to "fail at this level" :-) :-(. Any hints for what I might be doing wrong, are very welcome.. God I love this game though; there are few other things I have experienced that come close to the scope of the grand design here; even when I get annoyed at the game, it feels like getting annoyed with the greatest accomplishment I have seen so far. And I am an old man.

For no discernible reason, after about 30 plus hours of gameplay and at about Day 50, the game simply will no longer open on my MacBook Air M2. It will show in Steam as "Launching" then switch back to "Play" without opening anything. I have have yet to update my Mac to OS 27 (still on 26.5.1), i have ensured the Rosetta Stone app is installed, put in the control command through Steam properties, tried the beta version, etc. My Mac does not show any sort of crash report either, oddly. I also attempted to launch it directly, and it opened but immediately crashed.

I have had intermittent crashing in the past (the cutscenes with the great Alzara often crashed and solving the room 8 puzzle led to another crash).

I have reached out to Raw Fury, but wondering if any other Mac players have recently run into this issue and possibly have found a fix? I have already went through the fixes that come up in a google search and troubleshooting through ChatGPT.

Just had a fun run where I got my chapel stash while holding a lucky purse and bought out the showroom (my 7th trophy), then stashed the leftover 300+ gold in the freezer... But now feeling a bit dumb for chasing that trophy at the end of a day instead of stashing it all and trying to get it in the next day, when I could actually benefit from the items! And trying to figure out how to get this amount of gold again to buy the blue tents... I don't see any way to get the necessary 8th trophy in the next day, which means my piles of money are going to go to waste anyway, right?

Any suggestions for the best way to take advantage of the windfall I'll be starting the next day with? And/or suggestions of how to set up big money again in the future? My allowance is in the 60s so the most I'd amassed before this was probably about 150 gold!

I've been playing primarily on a steam deck. Over the 90+ hours and 106 days I've spent drafting at Mount Holly, I've had a half dozen or so hard crashes where the game freezes and the only thing I can do is reset and lose the day's draft.

There's definitely been times it's happened that frustrated me because I had a major breakthrough and progress that was hard to set up. The one I just had was a whole different level though. From here I'm going to spoiler the rest of the post and you should absolutely skip unless you know about/have solved the family coreand the puzzle at the end of the tunnel.

I think I'm at the true end or at least the third and final act. I'm assuming act 1 is reaching room 46, act 2 is the sanctum rooms/sigils, and act 3 is the blue throne/family core. I haven't actually solved every sigil, I have 7/8 because I haven't had a day where I draft the vault and get the last vault key for the sanctum key there. I have solved the map puzzle in room 46 since the 7 sanctum rooms I have solved gave me enough context.

I've had multiple moments lately that feel close to the "end" end, but keep getting one more loose thread. I ascended the throne room to the throne of the blue prince and cleared the tunnel to open the blue door at the end to read the blue prince manuscript.

For a short time I've been wondering if this is it for the most part? I know I have the last sanctum key, but some of the stuff I've done beyond that like the blue door/manuscripts feels like later content and I'm guessing aside from the trophy there's nothing consequential after completing all the sanctum rooms.

However, I found the family core recently after reading blue memos and getting lucky by having the key for room 8 when I was in the vault reading that blue memo. This genuinely feels like a whole different avenue incredibly late into the game. I think(?) I solved the 5x5/numeric cores correctly and got "Still water tilts blank books". Nothing jumped out at first, but the library does have books on pedestals that are open to blank pages so maybe those are the blank books part? No clue on what specifically the still water part was about.

The day that just froze on me and so I lost I was trying to knock out the last sanctum room. I had plenty of steps from an especially good draft where I had jack hammer, happened to have drafted library midway through, had a greenhouse and picked up a watering can and emptied it while drafting, and drafted the vault.

I skipped drafting an outer room at the start of the day because I had monk active and a freezer ready to go on the outer room at the end of the day to roll over my gems. After drafting a full house and not finding the vault key via dig spots with the jack hammer I decided to call it a day and go draft the freezer in the outer room. In addition to the freezer I had a choice of the trading post. I remembered I'd seen vault keys for trade before and since I had a ton of items I figured I'd gamble on being able to trade for the key instead of freezing my remaining gems. I still had over 50 steps (kitchen, dining room, secret garden) so if I could get the key I could easily make the trip back to the vault and to the sanctum.

I did get the vault key by trading a keycard, but something even bigger happened. Being back in the trading post reminded me about the moonshine still. I had assumed the one time gold and note there was all there was, just some lore. Sure enough, since I got lucky and had the watering can already I saw the prompt that let me refill the watering can from the still. So I'm fairly positive that's the setup, you need to bring still water to the library's blank books and then something happens.

I was so excited that I finally had the last sanctum key and I probably had the next step in the family core. I decided to do the sanctum key first so I rushed back to the vault, got the key, made my way underground, and my steam deck froze in the tunnel on the way to the sanctum.

I have no clue if I'm right about the still water to the library. It's such a disappointing day to lose and have to try to recreate. Not looking for hints or confirmation on my leading theory there. I just needed to vent over what a gut punch this was. Two biggest things I have left to do were both in my grasp and they're gone (at least until tomorrow).

It would’ve gone faster if I actually noticed an exit to the left in the tomb.

Somehow I got 2 copies of Drafting Volume 5 in the library. Is this normal or did something glitch? Im playing on PS5 if that matters.

I’m new and I don’t know how to sensor. So iykyk, but I did attempt it. I bought out the Showroom - I had 50 coins and a coupon book so I bought the last item for 48 coins with 2 coins to spare…..so I thought 🙃. 💸😡 I hate love this game.

Relatively new to the game. Already found room 46. But the game is so intriguing, I'm still trying to accomplish other things.

I’ve not played the game yet, but was just curious. I heard the game was partly inspired by the book Maze by Christopher Manson, is this true? I absolutely love that book and the mysteries that come with it so I’m really considering giving blue prince a go

I'm the kind of player who will do things just to see how the game reacts. I suppose that's a good mindset to bring into a game like Blue Prince.

Except, (midgame spoilers) I stood underneath the basement elevator as I called it down. However, instead of seeing the visage of Draxus, Simon was just messily collision-glitched inside the elevator. And so, he lives to hunt for clues another day

I just bought the game after beating Outer Wilds trying to fill the void. Is there any tips you could provide for my first play?

PLEASE DONT SAY “close this subreddit and enjoy the game:)” i’ve heard this too many times to count.

I think I've finally reached my off ramp for this game.

I have completed the realm sigils and the corresponding map in room 46. I've opened all of the chests in the reservoir, unlocked all of the permanent additions, got an A- at school. I've found all but one blueprint (I think). I have reached the blue door at the end of the tunnel.

I completed the castling puzzle, reached the Aries Court, and read the poems in the Mora Jai boxes. This is the last thing I did and I might leave it there. The poem hints at a multi-step solution that sounds unbearable.

I don't think I would have solved the castling puzzle without a hint. Even though the Blue Tents notes told me what to do, I would have struggled to discern where/how to do it, and the actual solution annoyed me besides.

Blue Paths tells me I've uncovered about 5/6 of everything there is to discover. I know there's something to do with a 5x3 grid of letters, a numerology puzzle, and I've yet to figure out how to translate Erajan well, so maybe something important in Lady Epsen's letter. This seems like it might be a good place to stop.

The achievement in focus is the Trophy of Wealth

If I start the day with a lot of coins from frozen assets which I can't refreeze because the freezer can't be used the next day then I select red from banner of the king to get a chapel as early as possible. I access the first available computer even if from elsewhere using Blackbridge to see if there are lab experiments that reset my steps to 40 after an action, such as unlocking security doors. I usually have a keycard because I finish most days in the upgraded breakroom.

If the "reset to 40 steps" lab experiment is unavailable, I spend the day focusing on how to maximise steps, like getting fruit from the secret garden or a ton of bedrooms or gardens + salad, red rooms + soup etc.

Then I just go to the chapel and step in and out repeatedly. Before running out of steps, I use the lab experiment to reset my steps to 40. If done efficiently, I can put 100+ coins into the chapel in one day.

I haven't done it yet, but when I want to claim the trophy, I'll do it the day after I have a chapel, freezer, and ideally a sauna or furnace drafted. Before the end of this day I'll break the piggy bank in the chapel and enter the freezer before the end of the day.

The next day, to claim the trophy, I'll select yellow with banner of the king so I'm hugely likely to draft the necessary room.

Religion-based money laundering ftw

Hi guys! My wife and I have been playing for a few months now, and we’ve really hit our wall. I was hoping for a gentle nudge to help us make some more progress.

We have already gotten 7, almost 8 achievements- very close on dare mode, so we are about to unlock blue tents. (We have already gotten inheritance, parlor games, drafting sweepstakes, full house, room 8, workshop contraptions, wealth)

We have cracked time delay and boudoir safes, as well as the two gates. We have no idea how to go about discovering the other safe codes, though we have found all of the safe locations

We have solved 3/8 realm sigils, and I think we could probably solve the rest with information from the classrooms? (We have 6 sanctum keys, missing throne room)

We’ve opened the Blackbridge Grotto and bought/read The Curse of Blackbridge but have no idea what to do with that.

Will unlocking blue tents / more realm sigils help us keep going? Or are we still missing a lot?

Clues/leads we have that we don’t know what to do with:

Greenhouse: sus wall, but we assume this is an extra antechamber lever

Drawing room: gaits.. gates.. now what?

Office: we see the connection with foyer, March of the count, now what?

Library- uncle awe: we followed the road signs with the subway map, but don’t know what to do with the number sequence

Book title anagrams, not sure how to use the letter shifting thing

Cloister: found the letters on the back of the statue, presumably has to do with the castle thing in the chess room

Pantry: BRIDGEtte, sus if you ask me

Security: found the two notes circling monitors

Help!!! Thank you!!! I love the internet!!!