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“I’ve laid the Institute’s foundations; steered the negotiations; overseen the early operations; helped establish its mission of disseminating occult knowledge. It’s up to them now.”

It’s finally here! HOUSE OF LIGHT is now available on Steam and GOG – don’t keep reading this! Go play it! That honey-haunted pumpkin pie ain’t gonna bake itself!

Play on Steam   //   Play on GOG

HOUSE OF LIGHT adds a novel’s worth of content to BOOK OF HOURS. It’s free to anyone with Perpetual Edition and 10% off for everyone in the first week of sale. It’s also purchasable as a new Anthology Edition bundle (including BOOK OF HOURS, HOUSE OF LIGHT and the soundtrack) all with an extra 15% off everything – just like the Anthology Edition of Cultist Simulator. This is the best value and most definitive version of the game you can buy.

Once purchased (or if you’re a PE owner, once you update to the latest version of the game), you should see a new HOUSE OF LIGHT button on the bottom left-hand corner of the main menu screen. Clicking it will open a ‘spoiler-light’ introduction to the new content (and how to get it) in-game, but I’ll reproduce it here to whet your appetite:

FOOD

Combine Ingredients, Sustenance, and Kitchenware items at the three Kitchen workstations to create nearly a hundred new dishes. TIP: The Spice Scales, and the Spices & Savours skill, will substitute for each other.

A WRITING-CASE

Once you’ve received this gift, you can record addresses from the calling-cards left by satisfied visitors; and write to these visitors to invite them back to the House. TIP: Visitors don’t arrive instantly; visitors don’t leave calling cards until you’ve helped them; and some visitors are easier to summon than others.

SALONS

Place food and drink in one of the six Salon rooms, and then use the bell to begin a Salon. Do it right and you’ll be rewarded with sparkling conversation… and Lessons. TIP: Visitors usually prefer food and drink which matches their primary Interest, but some have additional requirements.

MANUSCRIPTS

Use Paper, Ink, and a Skill to write a Manuscript based on that skill. These Manuscripts may be necessary to satisfy thirsts for specific knowledge in FURTHER STORIES. Lessons from Salons will help you improve those Skills and write more useful Manuscripts. TIP: You can’t reliably control what Visitors will discuss – it’s a party, not an interrogation – but they’ll usually provide lessons related to their shared Interests.

FURTHER STORIES

Once you’ve completed an Incident, follow it up in the Tree of Wisdoms. Visitors will need more specific help here – perhaps a book on a specific topic, or a specific book. TIP: An Affair opens to Further Stories once all interested Visitors have had the opportunity to ask you for help with it. Be aware in some Further Stories, it can make a difference who you originally helped. Be careful. This is the one part of the game where choices can sometimes have permanent consequences.

THE INSTITUTE

Look for the lighthouse, out at sea. When your Visitors are ready, use it to establish the true heirs to the Curia of the Isle. TIP: Further Stories outcomes can inspire your Visitors to support the Institute – for their own reasons. Their nature is constant, but some story outcomes can make them decide to emphasise one agenda over another.

Please leave a review if you like it 

Recent events have made us even more aware of the fragility of Steam review scores – and how important they are to our ability to do our jobs. So if you like HOUSE OF LIGHT, please leave it a positive review! People tend not to leave reviews for expansions / DLC, but you might be the thing standing between us and a Dreadful Red rating for this sweet, polished bit of content about hosting friends for tea. So if you can, please give us a nice blue thumbs up! ✨👍✨

Excuse me this expansion appears to be only in English

HOUSE OF LIGHT is currently being translated into Russian and Simplified Chinese, to match the tip-top localisations of the base game. Please be patient with us while our wonderful localisers complete their work. We expect to launch the Simplified Chinese beta next week, though – so it shouldn’t be too long before we have full translations ready to go.

Japanese is coming for the full game and the beta ASAP. More news on that when we have confirmed dates.

We’re still considering translating BOOK OF HOURS into other languages. We’ll let everyone know if we decide to go ahead with any additional localisations, just as soon as they’re confirmed in studio.

Anything else?

Everyone’s favourite Canadian (OK, after Benton Fraser from Due South), Systemchalk, is livestreaming BOOK OF HOURS on the Steam page right now. If you’d like to experience the sensation of pouring warm maple syrup into your ear while you drowse by a library fireplace, tune in.

Also, all our merch is currently 25% off in the shop to celebrate HOUSE OF LIGHT’s launch, so go nuts with all the things you’ve had your eye on but were cannily waiting for a good deal (here’s looking at you, Lady Afterwards).

Fingers crossed you enjoy all the love we put into HOUSE OF LIGHT. Thanks so much for playing, and happy hosting in Hush House!