TRAILER

KEY FACTS

"Your fate is hidden in the cards..."

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the missing family... and choose your own path through the darkness.


Genre: Card, Indie, RPG, Crafting, Horror

Platform: Windows PC


BACKGROUND & OVERVIEW

"The rain echoes through the empty halls..."

Highrook - an aristocratic eerie of cold rock and rain. Home to the Ackeron family, a noble house fallen into disrepute. Following rumours of dark pacts and shadowy rituals, the Ackerons have vanished. At the request of the city council, a team of occult investigators has been dispatched to investigate. 



SCREENSHOTS

NEWSLETTER & MORE!

In addition to posting updates on twitter, bluesky etc we run a low frequency newsletter.

You can subscribe to it here!

Its the best way to find out about the project, it also features thoughts on related games, films, books and so on.


The Horror at Highrook is Produced by Nullpointer Games, a tiny indie studio based in the UK. Its run by Tom Betts, who worked on games such as "Sir, You are being Hunted", "The Signal from Tolva" and "Into the Pit" - He is obsessed with horror films, procedural generation and has a Phd in videogames & philosophy.


https://tomnullpointer.itch.io/ Some free itch games and prototypes

http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/ Toms personal website

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44010661-Nullpointer-Games Nullpointer Games on steam

http://www.nullpointer.co.uk/highrook/presskit/sheet.php?p=the_horror_at_highrook Presskit


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"We hide in the shadows of the world beyond, for its light would surely blind us"