Scarlet Hollow
Black Tabby Games · 2021 · Choices Matter, Visual Novel, Horror, Psychological Horror, Story Rich
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 4,57291Metacritic
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About Scarlet Hollow
From the developers of Slay the Princess, Scarlet Hollow is an immersive horror-mystery with sharp writing, impactful choices, and meticulously hand-drawn art.Coal mines sealed off after a deadly collapse. Strange creatures preying on livestock. Houses infested with vengeful spirits. The sleepy town of Scarlet Hollow has suddenly come alive with horrors, just in time for your arrival.
This was supposed to be a quiet getaway in the rural mountains of North Carolina. All you had to do was finally meet your long-lost cousin and comfort her through her mother’s funeral. But now, each new day welcomes new nightmares. You only have to survive a week. But can you get to the bottom of the horrifying mysteries haunting Scarlet Hollow before they claim your life?
The first five episodes are available now, with one major content update planned before the story reaches its conclusion.Features
The first five episodes are available now, with one major content update planned before the story reaches its conclusion.Features
- A heavily branching narrative where your decisions (actually) matter. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey.
- A complex paranormal mystery. Investigate haunted houses, strange sightings in the woods, a deteriorating mine, and more as you try and piece together what happened in Scarlet Hollow.
- Trait-based dialogue and role-playing. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be. Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? Can you talk to animals? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds.
- A dynamic relationship system that reacts to your every choice and changes how your story unfolds. People won't just like or dislike you. Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story.
- Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids.
- No jumpscares. All of the horror in Scarlet Hollow comes from dread, tension, and a sprinkle of disturbing imagery.
- A touch of romance. Whether you're into goths, dads, moms, paranormal investigators, mysterious recluses, or actual monsters, you'll find something waiting for you here. And if you'd rather avoid that entirely, your story won't be any less for it.
- Hundreds of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. Every background in the game is hand drawn and inked by Ignatz-winning graphic novelist Abby Howard.
- Fully immersive art. Each major character has dozens—and often hundreds—of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Gonna be an all-timer once it's all out. Well worth playing now. I've seen let's plays that went in totally different directions than my own playthrough. The amount of art and branching in this game is crazy.1 found this helpful
Dustin you are my everything1 found this helpful
i love it soo much. im not a fan of horror games. after playing slay the princess i bought this game. im genuinly hooked. i love all the caracthers soo much. its soo good. BUY IT1 found this helpful
This game has had me in a vice grip. The art is beautiful and the story is compelling, I have found myself playing the game multiple times trying to get info and explore the different traits and how they all interact with each other. I love this game and can't wait for the future updates I recommend this game 100 percent.
While some parts are hit and miss (some of the characters are a bit weird sometimes, someone at Tabby Games must freaking LIVE off PB&J and/or Ice Cream & Mac and Cheese - and like, no, I don't want to romance this person, thank you, you want to put on a little more clothing when you have guests OLIVER?! - and what's up with the absolute weirdo on the bus? And for the character complaining about it being a tiny hick town, it's actually an fairly diverse group of characters, in a good way, but someone at Tabby Games definitely has a "type" nod nod wink wink.) but character nit-picking aside, there are so many nooks and crannies to this game, that it's an amazing power house of a choose-your-own-horror-story that I've played, beaten, and come back to, repeatedly, trying to find different allies or get revenge on people who upset me last playthrough. But things and characters change so often that I've found it stays pretty enjoyable, fresh. It has good storytelling in general. The story telling and art direction varies from good enough to excellent, although sometimes I lost the plot and had to read about what just happened (episode 3 and the end of four) but it's an enjoyable well fl…
Historia e personagens complexos, visual, musica e ambientacao no geral mt boas. to termiando o ep 3 agr, q loucura
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