Hold your houses

Unplayable garbage that defends itself from negative reviews by crashing every 60 seconds, even if you stay in the main menu. Even if the game worked, it's not very well-designed. You die if you're shot once and enemies are silent on approach. There's no grace period for setup and you aren't likely to survive or stave off a game crash long enough to buy a weapon. Don't buy anything that has anything in common with this game.

Hold your houses is a compact first-person action and defensive strategy game that turns an ordinary home into a battleground against repeated groups of armed intruders. Developed by WhackAKey Games and published by Conglomerate 5, the game was released in 2017 with a simple objective that is immediately understandable: protect the building, survive enemy attacks, earn points, and use those points to improve your ability to withstand increasingly dangerous encounters. Rather than constructing an elaborate story around the premise, the game concentrates almost entirely on its survival loop, combining shooting with basic preparation and resource management. The main threat comes from robbers who periodically attack the player's location while carrying weapons that include pistols, shotguns, and assault rifles. Their ability to fight back prevents the experience from becoming a basic shooting gallery. Charging directly into every confrontation can leave the player vulnerable, making defensive preparation an important part of survival. Doors and windows can be barricaded to slow enemies attempting to enter the house. These barriers do not permanently solve the problem, but they provid…

Ugly and bloated. Runs like death on tar. It is from the same asset set as Operation Swat. Equally undesirable. "I do not recommend." -Khlamos

Long loading screens that freeze the game, poor optimization, low effort menus, blown out lighting, teleporting enemies... it's the definition of shovelware slop. It's unplayable in its current state - it's most likely not possible to beat level 1.

Gameplay is as bad as it looks.

trash, unplayable