When The Devil Takes Hold

NOVAK STUDIOS / Aug 22, 2024 / Adventure, Indie

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When The Devil Takes Hold is a first-person psychological horror game. Step into the shoes of James Davidson, a fearless content creator whose search for views leads him to a cursed location. Explore the haunted grounds and solve puzzles to uncover the dark past.

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What's new

Major Update V1.3 (2026.08.25)

2026-08-25

Heya, we thought to release an update after 1.5 years, since we learned a lot since the last update and had a bit of free time. • Put the Language selector in the ingame settings menu, no need to change it in Steam settings anymore • Because of this change, we could add the Slovakian language • Polished the Main Menu UI • Fixed some texts and objectives not being localized • Fixed some remaining issues with the save/load system • Added the trailer for "The Visit: Mizukawa" after the credits

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What players say

Mostly Positive

73% positive, 33 reviews

Not recommended1 hrs played

If you value yourself you will kindly pass on this game. It was poorly made with lack of care just utilizing asset packs with no thought. The door still has the asset name showing up in game for instance. Love you!

5 found this helpful, 2024-08-24

Recommended5 hrs played

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐...

5 found this helpful, 2024-08-24

Not recommended1 hrs played

Literally could not progress due to being blocked in from invisible walls that bugged in the middle of a hallway. This locked me in jail and would have to restart. It's typical collect stuff to progress. Find random lockpicks (100 just sitting in this house of a murder scene after lengthly investigations by law enforcement?) they are just randomly just there, then get fuses which magically spawn. Not...

3 found this helpful, 2024-08-24

Not recommended