"You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soul

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:30:00 +0000

It's a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible house. Wait, let's start that again. As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a horrible house. Wait, let's start that again: "You wake up as a House. Your limbs stretch through endless rooms filled with grotesque creatures. You can never see outside of yourself, never feel the world that lies beyond the fleshy walls of your body. You manage your insides as best you can, but you wonder: are you a good house or just a pale afterthought of the House Before?"

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"You can never see outside of yourself": The House Before is a body horror game in which you are a house tunnelling through its own soul