Dreams in the Witch House news & patch notes

We're thrilled to announce that Dreams in the Witch House is in the running for the Labor of Love category in the Steam Awards 2025! If you love Dreams in the Witch House and appreciate the spirit of its development, we would be incredibly grateful for your vote!

Hello dreamers!

We're excited to let you know that we are partaking in the Steam Summer Sale with a 60% discount!

This unique blend of point-and-click adventure inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale. and open-world RPG challenges you to balance studies, sanity, and the supernatural.

Dreams in the Witch House has:

🕰️ Multiple endings

🔍 Nonlinear storyline

🌌 Cosmic horror atmosphere

Don't miss this chance to immerse yourself in Lovecraftian horror at over half the price! P.S. we recently released a new patch that adds the fan translations to French and Spanish (LATAM) to the game!

The optional 1.08 version is now bumbed up as the default version! The main additions are the fan translations to French and Spanish (LATAM / MX) and the option to buy alchemy ingredients from the Pharmacy. Full changelog below.

IMPORTANT!

Save games from the previous 1.07 version are not compatible with the current version!

If you want to keep using your old save files, here's how to switch back to the previous version:

HOW TO SWITCH BACK TO PREVIOUS 1.07 VERSION:

Hello there!

I’ve finally created a Discord server for Atom Brain Games, so it should now be easier to contact me, ask questions about Dreams in the Witch House and follow the development of Dunwich Horror. If you’re a Discord user, come join us!

Invite to Atom Brain Games Discord server: https://discord.gg/AwQUyccHSQ

See you there!

Antti

We have these three masterpieces as a part of the Next Fest. Give these gems a shot and demos today.

• Hard Difficulty: Hitting the uninjured rat several times during the ending no longer assigns wrong sprite to the slime graphics
• It's no longer possible to return the student card to the Librarian if it's been forged or tampered with
• Fixed an issue where giving the alien figurine to the Archivist caused the pencil sound effect to loop in the background
• Fixed an issue where pausing the game or entering the menu while the Archivist was writing could have caused the pencil sound effect to loop in the background
• Walter now makes a comment that there are several boxes containing newspapers in the archives
• Minor fixes to Elwood's dialogue options
• Minor fixes to Anastasia's dialogue options
• Fixed the issue where trying to continue on beyond the last page in Walter's notes with the mouse wheel would still produce the paper-shuffling sound effect
• Added some animations to interactions with the student card
• Added some sound effects to interactions with Armitage and the Archivist

• Walter can now buy the rat poison directly from the general store, if he has discussed poisoning the rats with Joe.
• Earplugs can now deteriorate completely only after sleeping, resting, or studying at home.
• An option has been added to disable tutorial texts when starting a new game.
• When hovering over an inventory item, the description text will now show how many copies/doses it has.
• The Special Collection ending dialog with Armitage now takes into account Walter's Occult skill value.
• Occult skill value can no longer be negative.
• An issue where it was possible to sign the book of Azathoth several times has been fixed.
• An issue where eating canned food at the dream city could decrease Walter's food amount when he is awake has been fixed.
• An issue where a corridor exit hotspot could be visible in the dream city, even if the way was blocked, has been fixed.
• All mentions of Sarah Churchwell are corrected to Sarah Churchill in the witch trial documents.
• If the university basement pipe is burst, Armitage's Special Collection intro sequence can no longer happen in any scenario.
• An issue in the Elwood intro sequence where Elwood's sprite might have disappeared briefly has been fixed.
• An issue where Elwood could have been incorrectly tinted when encountering him on the street has been fixed.
• If the game is paused by pressing spacebar in the index card close-up room, right-clicking no longer freezes the game.
• Looking at the strange rod in inventory while in a close-up room no longer freezes the game.
• Minor typo fixes have been made.

• Fixed an issue where leaving the library hall could have caused a crash if day cycle change happened at the same time
• Fixed an issue where Walter might have got stuck at the library rooms, if room change and day cycle change happened at the same time
• Fixed an issue where Walter commented about having a study session with Allison on Sunday dawn, if he missed the meeting on the Saturday before
• Fixed an issue where Walter commented on the kidnapped child after waking up, even if he had saved the child already
• Hovering mouse over Sickness status label in Character Bar now shows Sickness advancement rate multiplier
• Added more detailed medicine descriptions to Witchopedia
• Minor typo fixes

• Sickness increase speed halved if Walter is not Drenched / Freezing
• Adjusted Sickness increase / decrease values when Walter is sleeping / resting to be consistent
• Adjusted Cultist city encounter chance
• Normal difficulty: Increased starting money to 12 (was 10)
• Easy difficulty: Increased starting money to 14 (was 12)
• Easy difficulty: Weekly allowance increased to 14 dollars (was 12)
• Easy difficulty: Exam money rewards increased by one dollar
• Easy difficulty: Good sleep now grants +0.5 SAN bonus (was +0.2)
• Easy difficulty: Good rest now grants +0.2 SAN bonus (was +0.1)
• Easy difficulty: Odd Job payment increased to 3 dollars (was 2 dollars)
• Easy difficulty: Allison / Elwood conversation Sanity gain increased to +0.5 (was +0.2)
• Easy difficulty: Buying Bootleg whisky gives now 10 doses of alcohol (was 5)

• Added Steam Cloud saves
• Disabled the map hotkey from all of the dream locations
• Fixed an issue where travelling to the witch's hut after killing the rat could have still spawned the rat in that location
• Fixed an issue where the "Investigator" achievement didn't unlock if the last required evidence triggered Armitage's "Joe's full story" dialog
• Disabled the option to accidentally travel to the alien city, if Walter had not visited it before. Previously doing that could have caused errors
• Fixed some typos

• You can no longer skip the May-Eve event by spending the night in Elwood's room
• Fixed an issue where using the rod at the island could have caused a freeze, if the text speed was set very low
• Fixed an issue where not reporting to Armitage about being trapped in the basement could have caused a game freeze later on when exiting the Special Collection
• Selecting the "Delete existing save games" option in the main menu now deletes existing save games
• Fixed an issue where the rat could run through the damaged tin sheet rat hole cover
• Giving the dead rat to Armitage, and telling all the facts about it at the same time, now gives all the correct evidence points
• The option to ask Fisherman about the previous customer will now be properly removed, if Walter has the rod
• Finding and interacting with the dead rat in the secret room will now unlock the "Exterminator" achievement
• One variation of the bad endings will now unlock the "The Blind Idiot God" achievement
• Fixed some typos

Prepare for the Lovecraftian Fever Dreams: May-Eve and Witches Are Coming to Steam on 16th of February

Features and gameplay in a nutshell:

• Unique mix of adventure game and open world survival game
• You have 60 days to prepare for the May-Eve witch sabbath
• Day / evening / night -cycles
• RPG elements: health, sanity, occult & maths skills
• Lot’s of endings depending on player’s actions with 10–20 hours of playtime
• Original soundtrack by genre favourite Troy Sterling Nies

• DIFFICULTY LEVELS There's now three difficulty levels to choose from. They don't affect the puzzles, but change how the survival / RPG stuff works. There's even Ironman mode, if you want extra tension and avoid save scumming.
• TWO NEW MUSIC TRACKS More great music from Troy Sterling Nies that add atmosphere in the game.
• CHARACTER BAR STATUS PROGRESSION SYMBOLS The lines below show the progress to the next status phase. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41993841/27e90e3fca819420d5998c52b6a713679e054294.png This will hopefully make protecting Walter easier. This feature was a suggestion from a player of the demo, so I can't take all the credit :)
• BETTER TUTORIALS AND INSTRUCTIONS New players should have an easier time figuring out how things work. For example, finding study books should now be more intuitive.

Prepare for the Lovecraftian Fever Dreams: May-Eve and Witches Are Coming Soon

Finnish studio with an award-winning lovecraftian short movie announces lovecraftian game The Dreams in the Witch House to be released in early 2023!

Features and gameplay in a nutshell:

• Unique mix of adventure game and open world survival game
• You have 60 days to prepare for the May-Eve witch sabbath
• Day / evening / night -cycles
• RPG elements: health, sanity, occult & maths skills
• Random city activities and encounters
• Creeping tension: otherworldly threats intensify gradually
• Several endings depending on player’s actions with 10–20 hours of playtime
• Plenty of detailed animation and visual effects
• Original soundtrack by genre favourite Troy Sterling Nies