The Panic Room. House of secrets

The Panic Room. House of secrets

GameXP.com · April 27, 2016 · Free to Play, Hidden Object, Adventure, Puzzle, Casual

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About The Panic Room. House of secrets

✦ AI summary

Escape a sinister mansion by solving puzzles and finding hidden objects while uncovering the twisted game of a madman called the Puppeteer. With branching storylines, 2000+ quests across 17 detailed locations, and multiple game modes, you'll piece together the dark secrets of your imprisonment and discover what freedom truly costs.

You awake in the dark and mysterious mansion. How did you get here? What to do next? Where is the way to escape? Only one person knows all the answers. The guy who enclosed you and several other people here. This psycho calls himself a Puppeteer, and he wants you to play his evil game. The winner will get freedom. But what sacrifice would you make to return home?
“The Panic Room: House of Secrets” is a "hidden object" game. Moving through the old mansion, you'll have to solve a lot of puzzles. Only in the end of your way you can really understand the true price of freedom.

Main features
  • Over 2000 story-driven quests
  • 2 alternative storylines presented in the best traditions of Agatha Christie’s fiction
  • 23 unique characters with their own unique stories
  • 17 highly detailed locations to explore, 9 game modes to master, an infinite number of mysteries to unveil
  • 5 seasons of engaging narrative in ultimate hidden object experience already appraised by millions of gamers worldwide

The Panic Room. House of secrets — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 31, 2026
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Not recommended Jan 14, 2026
Objects are too small & game is sooooo boring!!! U couldn't pay me to play it.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 28, 2026
The Panic Room. House of Secrets, developed and published by GameXP.com, is a hidden object adventure that expands the usual formula into something much larger and more persistent. What begins as a familiar “find the objects in a cluttered room” experience quickly evolves into a long-running mystery set inside a sprawling mansion filled with secrets, characters, and layered storylines. It positions itself less as a short puzzle game and more as an ongoing investigation, where progress unfolds gradually over time rather than in a single, contained playthrough. The premise is immediately engaging. You awaken trapped in an eerie mansion alongside other individuals, all seemingly caught in the same situation. Presiding over everything is a mysterious figure known as the Puppeteer, whose motives and influence shape the events of the story. From there, the narrative branches outward, introducing multiple characters, each with their own background and role in the unfolding mystery. The game leans heavily into detective-style storytelling, encouraging players to piece together clues and uncover hidden connections rather than simply follow a linear plot. Gameplay is built around tradition…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 18, 2026
love the story and the puzzles
Recommended May 28, 2026
fun
Recommended Apr 18, 2026
A tentative thumbs up. This does the mobile slop thing of bombarding you with options, items, currencies, and of course the ever-present real-money payments... Along with the mandatory energy system, and increasingly oppressive blockades from the new content. All wrapped up in a massively confusing interface that makes it basically impossible to know how to progress. If you ignore that; you have a pretty fun core hidden objects game. There are quite a few different stages, a bunch of different games modes, and a few little twists. I made it to almost 10 hours before every quest I had relied on either rolling the dice for rooms to reliably be set to the game mode I need to get through them in, rolling the dice for specific pickups from random points around the house, or paying money the bypass those dice rolls... So, 10 hours of pretty decent hidden-objecting for free, that's alright. Just stop when you don't have any free, easy way to progress; that's my plan, uninstalling now. (And, hey, devs; the "night" mode massively slows down when the cursor is in the top-left corner, whatever method you're using to draw the cone of light is massively inefficient. Either fix that, or just …

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