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Holiday Paths:
The Last House on Hollow Street
Three teenagers vanished on Halloween night, 1987. They never came out. Tonight, the dare falls on you. Explore 20 painted scenes, manage your fear meter against panic, gather seven hidden clues, and face seven endings. Narrated by a full studio cast with living Web Audio atmosphere.
Engine Architecture & Mechanics
Branching State Machine
59 interconnected narrative nodes tracked with immutable progress state, item inventories, and branching endings.
Dynamic Fear Engine
A mechanical fear threshold that reacts to room danger. High panic levels tremble choices and lock away courageous options.
Procedural Web Audio
Low-frequency sub-bass drones, dissonant frequency modulation, and dynamic sound effects generated client-side via Web Audio API.
Studio Cast Narration
Full voice narration embedded for hands-free storytelling, reading passages and narrating choices aloud.
Offline PWA Architecture
Self-contained cache-first Service Worker architecture allowing 100% offline gameplay anywhere in the world.
Director's Cut Expansion
Optional $2.99 unlock via Google Play or web codes delivering the canonical 7th ending, visual story map, and author notes.
Dynamic Fear Engine Simulation Lab
Experience how psychological stress directly alters player agency in real-time. Slide the panic index or select an escalation state to observe choice degradation and cardiac response.
The air turns ice-cold. Heavy iron hinges groan behind the peeling wallpaper. A key hangs within the shadowy alcove, but the floorboards beneath your boots begin to violently vibrate...
The Seasonal Mystery Trilogy
Experience our growing universe of holiday-themed interactive fiction mysteries.
The Last House on Hollow Street
Three teens vanished on Halloween 1987 in the Blackwood house. Explore 20 painted scenes, manage your fear meter, uncover 7 clues, and survive 7 distinct endings with full voice narration.
The Family Recipe
Grandma Evelyn's heirloom Thanksgiving secret has been stolen right before dinner. Interrogate nine eccentric relatives across eight Victorian manor rooms before the final course is served.
Stranded at Winterfell Lodge
A catastrophic December blizzard traps six strangers in an abandoned alpine mountain lodge. Ration supplies, solve freezing environmental puzzles, and discover who among you is lying.
The Blackwood Manor Blueprint Map (142 Hollow Street)
Explore the floor plan of the estate where three teens vanished on Halloween 1987. Click any room or wing to inspect uncovered clues, secret chambers, and connections to the Seasonal Mystery Trilogy.
Front Porch & Wrought Iron Gate
Rusted iron hinges groan against the October wind. Dead sycamore leaves swirl across the rotting floorboards. On the doorframe, freshly carved tally marks indicate someone was counting days before they vanished.
- đī¸ Heavy brass skeleton key hidden inside the hollow wind-chime
- đ 1987 Town Gazette clipping warning of midnight disappearances
1987 Victorian Occult Brass Cipher Wheel
An ornate dual-ring brass cipher mechanism recovered from the attic of 404 Hollow Street. Align the concentric Victorian occult wheel to crack the encrypted cold-case journal fragments from Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas 1987.
Technical Specifications
Holiday Paths: Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our interactive fiction engine and narrative anthology.
What is Holiday Paths?
Holiday Paths is an interactive mystery and horror anthology by Red Planet Apps. Each game features branching choose-your-path storylines, living atmospheric audio, full voice narration, and multiple distinct endings.
Is Holiday Paths free to play in the browser?
Yes! Flagship stories including Act 1 of The Last House on Hollow Street and Stranded at Winterfell Lodge are 100% free to play directly in modern web browsers with zero downloads or account creation required.
Can I play Holiday Paths offline as a Progressive Web App (PWA)?
Yes. Holiday Paths is engineered as an offline-first Progressive Web App. You can install it directly to your phone or desktop home screen and play offline anytime without an active internet connection.
Is Holiday Paths available on Google Play?
Yes! The standalone Android edition of The Last House on Hollow Street is available directly on the Google Play Store with enhanced haptics, full audio playback, and on-device save states.