House of Detention

Meme-heavy dungeon horror game about collecting mugs and dodging monsters

Aniki, Male Union ♂ · Published by Dungeon Master · Released May 29, 2020

Action Adventure Indie Massively Multiplayer RPG Simulation Sports Strategy

Reviews: Very Positive; 91% of 11K
Recent reviews: Mixed; 58% of 12 in 30 days
Playing now: 0; right now
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: Unknown; no patch notes found

What is House of Detention?

In this horror game, you wake in an unfamiliar place with only a flashlight. You search a dungeon, locker room, and gym for water mugs and meme scrolls while avoiding monsters. Listed modes include single-player, online co-op, and PvP.

For you if...

+you enjoy absurd humor mixed with horror
+you like searching for items while avoiding monsters
+you want to play cooperatively online

Not for you if...

−you want horror that takes itself seriously
−you dislike searching for collectibles under threat

What players say

91% of 10,631 reviews are positive · 58% of 12 in the last 30 days

Players who enjoy it point to its absurd, meme-heavy humor. Others say the jokes do not carry the game. A recent player reports that additional multiplayer maps would not load.

Screenshots and trailer

House of Detention system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows Vista SP2 or newer
Processor: 2 GHz
Graphics: GT 650M
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 1 GB available space
DirectX: Version 9.0c

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements: 100
Steam features: Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Not supported on SteamOS

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.