Developer posts and news about this game.
Happy Thursday, everyone! BOOK OF HOURS and all DLC have all just been set to 60% off, their lowest discount ever. So if you've been meaning to host a salon for your occult friends, now's a good time to try HOUSE OF LIGHT . If you'd like some esoteric, melancholy ambience in real
Hey Librarians! I'm just posting a quick cross-post of some new isometric Hush House art from our upcoming game, Travelling At Night . I thought you'd enjoy it, so here it is in all its glory! Travelling is set in the same Secret Histories universe as BOOK OF HOURS . You'll be ab
Full modding support is now live . Many thanks to our curator-freelancer Chelnoque for making this happen. The Workshop is live here: DLL mods - that is mods which alter the base compiled code of the game - require you to subscribe to Ghirbi, the Gatekeeper. Ghirbi does nothing e
Modding beta->live
Welcome to 2026, everyone, The sum of the digits in this year is 10. The sum of digits in 10 is 1. There's probably something in that. New update (on the beta branch) for the new year. There's one big feature that I've already given away in the post headline, and a number of litt
"Reverend Timothy, having secured the attention of an attractive woman prepared to listen to his sermons, is now elucidating his previous *and* his next intended Christmas sermon. Coquille fastens her smile more charmingly on her face. Her eyes travel the room from end to end. Th
“Language is the key. It was language that opened the doors of the Mansus; without language, we could have had no peace; without language, we would still be beasts, worms, mud.” At long last, we’re delighted to launch full Japanese translation for BOOK OF HOURS and HOUSE OF LIGHT
2025.8.e.3: "EAGLES" A number of tiny ameliorations from the redoubtable Chelnoque Perfected skills stop displaying upgrade slots Films and phonograph records can no longer be contaminated The cursor is anchored more thoroughly when trying to zoom right after moving the camera wi
- ACCESSIBILITY: Edge scroll (moves the camera when the cursor is near the edge of the screen) - off by default, can be toggled in the settings - Custom window size persists after closing the game - Certain impossible save names are now properly impossible - Input fields on Steam
This is a new blog post from AK, almost entirely about Cultist Simulator (whose SEVENTH BIRTHDAY it is tomorrow). But there's a lot that's directly relevant to the design of BOOK OF HOURS, so I thought you BoH players might find it interesting, too. -- LB **** "It's not a loop -
"Language is the key. It was language that opened the doors of the Mansus; without language, we could have had no peace; without language, we would still be beasts, worms, mud." We’ve missed you, Hush House! Today we’re launching a Japanese beta for BOOK OF HOURS . From today’s u
Japanese language beta!
It's now possible to create community localisations for BOOK OF HOURS! Details here:
First things first: Cultist Simulator is 50-70% off as part of the Lovecraftian Days sale, so if you haven't played BOOK OF HOURS' elder brother, now's a great time to try it. ( Cultist Simulator is a crueller game, but if you like BoH , you will probably enjoy CS too.) For those
Some people were seeing a crash on Mac. After this they shouldn't!
that is, we're now Verified on Steam Deck. Thanks to Chelnoque for doggedly chiselling away at this exacting task. Valve's QA process has evidently tightened up: we've been back and forth addressing niggles with their verification arbiter since December. Deck verification is the
Merry Christmas, everyone! We're rounding off the year with a live AMA on the Weather Factory subreddit , starting in about half an hour. Come talk to us about anything BOOK OF HOURS , Secret Histories, why you should never leave the Stymphling alone with small children, etc. In
Major news! We're announcing our next game, set in - and probably our last in - the Secret Histories universe. Meet Travelling At Night , a dialogue-driven choices-matter combat-free CRPG in the tradition of isometric greats like Disco Elysium , Planescape: Torment , and Fallout
"Reverend Timothy, having secured the attention of an attractive woman prepared to listen to his sermons, is now elucidating his previous *and* his next intended Christmas sermon. Coquille fastens her smile more charmingly on her face. Her eyes travel the room from end to end. Th
From beta to live! * Chel's performance improvements are in this patch * Bug fixes for things the perf improvements did that needed fixing * Russian localisation * The usual straggler round-up of typos and tweaks