The Happyhills Homicide
Pixel-art horror adventure with murder puzzles and detective work
Copperbolt · Released Nov 4, 2024
- Reviews
- Overwhelmingly Positive
- 95% of 2,423
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 94% of 57 in 30 days
- Players
- 4
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 2 years ago
- Oct 27, 2024
What is The Happyhills Homicide?
In this free, single-player 2D horror adventure, you play an eighties-style slasher in Happyhills while a detective pursues you. You use stealth, solve puzzles, and kill targets with different weapons across twenty increasingly difficult levels, with crime-solving sub-levels played as the detective.
For you if...
- +you like dark humor and horror movie references
Not for you if...
- −you avoid graphic gore and explicit violence
- −you want a lengthy campaign rather than a short game
What players say
95% of 2,423 reviews are positive · 94% of 57 in the last 30 days
Players praise the slasher-movie atmosphere and story. The recurring control complaint is the lack of WASD movement support.
Screenshots and trailer
The Happyhills Homicide system requirements
Minimum: DirectX 8 GPU, 0.5 GB RAM, 0 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
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- OS
- Microsoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7
- Processor
- 1.2GHz processor
- Graphics
- DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 30 MB available space
Does The Happyhills Homicide have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does The Happyhills Homicide run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English.
Does The Happyhills Homicide use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
