Holiday Paths:
A New Mystery For Every Holiday
Choose-your-path horror and mystery fiction for readers 13+. Branching state machines, live procedural Web Audio atmosphere, studio voice narration, dynamic fear meters, and multiple endings.
Play free in your browser with zero downloads, zero account requirements, and 100% offline PWA support.
The Holiday Mystery Anthology
Explore the full roster of choose-your-path narrative games.
The Last House on Hollow Street
Three teenagers vanished into the Blackwood house on Halloween night in 1987. They never came out. Tonight, the dare falls on you. Explore 20 painted scenes, manage your fear meter against rising panic, uncover the seven hidden clues, and face seven distinct endings.
Stranded at Winterfell Lodge
Eleven guests. One blizzard. The generator dies, the town Toy Fund vanishes from the lobby case, and a saboteur is warming their hands by the fire. You have until midnight to uncover the thief before the lodge turns on you.
Midnight Rewind
Every time the crystal ball drops at midnight, reality fractures and you loop back to 8:00 PM. Uncover the penthouse conspiracy before the timeline collapses forever.
The Anonymous Admirer
The handwritten notes arrive with impossible intimate secrets that nobody should know. Follow the rose-tinted trail before affection spirals into dangerous obsession.
The Luck Thief
You pocketed an ancient tarnished coin from the peat bog. Now impossible fortune bends in your favor — but everyone around you pays a catastrophic price in misfortune.
The Family Recipe
Grandma's multi-million dollar heirloom recipe is stolen minutes before the roast is carved. Interrogate a dining room full of suspects before dessert is ruined.
Engine Architecture & Technology
Built from the ground up for immersive, zero-latency browser fiction.
Branching State Machine
50+ interconnected narrative nodes with immutable choice states, branching inventories, and divergent endings.
Dynamic Fear & Tension
An in-engine fear threshold that reacts to room danger. High panic levels shake choices and lock away courageous options.
Procedural Web Audio
Low-frequency sub-bass drones, heartbeats, and dynamic atmosphere synthesized in real-time via Web Audio API.
Studio Cast Narration
Full voice narration integrated for hands-free storytelling, reading passages and character voices aloud.
Offline PWA Architecture
Self-contained cache-first Service Worker architecture allowing 100% offline gameplay anywhere with zero latency.
100% Private & Zero Ads
Zero advertising SDKs, zero user tracking, zero accounts, and zero telemetry. All progress stays local on your device.
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.