The Witch's House MV

A great little game with a good atmosphere and story. It's short though, and you'll probably get through it in two to three hours. I don't think that's a problem personally, and it's nice to play something short and focused for a change. But that does mean you'll probably want to get it when it's on sale.

A must-play for horror fans

I loved this game and I would recommend it to anyone! So creative and very creepy. The only thing is I wish there were achievements and maybe an alternative to the frog scenario :') although I understand why it's in there. Amazing job on this!

I actually love this game so much, the only thing I'd say is a minus is that I wish it could be a bit longer. I love the style so much and it's so creepy at times. It's an older game but so unique in it's genre, I deff recommend!! I lowk was screaming like crazy at the ending chase sequence but overall I actually love how creepy (and kinda cute) the game is!!

the main game is good, however. the ? mode is extremely unfair and stupid there was no need for this mode. It did scare me more them normal mode

absolute peak

This game was my introduction to rpg horror games years ago. I found this game back in 2012 and dove deep into the lore and book. When the 'Friend' song Jayn made was released it was my favorite little thing to sing. And when this game released to steam I played it again. The thing that brought me back years later to write this review was because i was singing 'Friend'. I love this game and it's stuck with me for 12 years. That is how much of a masterpiece it is. The story was truly amazing

The devs mastered telling a horror story with such a limited framework. While there isn't much to the gameplay, what is here was certainly worth both my time and money.

This game made me so paranoid to the point where I actually thought I was gonna get a gameover screen for picking the option of liking frogs, thinking it was gonna suck the life outta me with a kiss and turning into a prince... I blame Crash Bandicoot for such a thought 😂

good game good twist, i enjoyed myself

Got this off the spring sale after wanting to play it for awhile. I thought the original price was a bit too much for the length of the game, but honestly, I really enjoyed this for the 2 hours it took to complete it. My only real gripe was the game froze often and I had to restart. I guess to avoid this, play on easy so that you can save as often as possible. Overall, tho... a neat little dark game w/ an unsettling ending and good puzzles.

A classic RPG maker horror game.

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A game that requires exercising a good amount of suspension of disbelief, but there's a reason why it's considered a classic in its genre. Getting all endings certainly adds a lot to the experience.

One of the best RPG Maker Horror games remaked - my nostalgia came back to me and the whole game just gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I played this game on my YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN8T0CYK_XTuLjgsX3E_Mmskz5zFakGxE

The Witch's House MV is a remaster of the original game. This is an RPG Horror game. This game is so good. It's scary. It has a great story. And there are so many ways to die! It's so much fun die in every way. The premise is simple. Make your way through the witch's house! This is considered to be one of the best RPG Horror games of all time. I recommend playing this one. It's very fun and scary!

One of the best, if not THE best, rpg maker horror stories. The plot is unbeatable, and this game's story has stuck with me for years







everyone read the diary of ellen post true ending completion pls

GREAT STORY [spoiler] BUT DONT PLAY IT, IF U WANT TO BE DEPRESSED AND SAD AND CRY AND TRAUMATIC AND NIGHTMARE [spoiler]

Minor SPOILERS : PLOT TWIST IN THE ENDING

i havent been the same since i played this game

Delightful little horror game with legitimately interesting puzzles, good spooks, and great atmosphere. DO play it!

true advertising. there is a witch and you are in her house.

play it and get all the ending, hint hint there are 4 of them <3

The Extra Mode really make this game feels like new!!!
Really cool, especially for me who already play the original one a couple times..

Overall Rating

★★★★☆

Story

★★★★☆

Gameplay

★★★★☆

Graphics

★★★★☆

Soundtrack

★★★☆☆

Sound Design

★★★★☆

Difficulty

★★★☆☆

Bug free ?

★★★★★

PC Requirements

★☆☆☆☆

Replay Value

★★★☆☆

Recommended - ✔

As a big fan of indie games and more specifically indie horror RPGs since I was young, I decided to do a marathon of all the iconic games that I was able to play when I was younger of the genre and even some that I have never been able to do before ! And what better way to start this marathon than to replay after so many years the bronze medal of the indie horror RPG podium : The Witch House !

Welcome to the witch house ! In this story, we play as a young girl named Viola who finds herself visiting a strange house deep in the forest after waking up stuck in the forest. We quickly discover the true dangerous nature of the house and we find ourselves looking for an escape from it being stuck inside. The house changes constantly and death can surprise us at any moment accompanied by game over, that's basically all I can say to summarize the basic plot narrative of the game. Now let's talk about it in more detail ! (Spoilers warning obviously ^^)

In this game, we are permanently immersed in a surreal universe, halfway between "Alice in Nightmareland" (we can notably attend a memorable tea party between flowers, who will ask the heroine to go and massacre the flower in the next room who thinks she is more beautiful than them) and a vicious tale (to complete the game, you will have to accomplish many actions that are quite filthy and not very glorious morally speaking). The atmosphere is really very successful on this point, the Witch House does its job very well.

It is nevertheless a little less interesting in terms of gameplay, because despite a well-mastered adventure / puzzle orientation (gameplay that obviously inspired the excellent Ib, which I can only recommend to you if you like The Witch's House, it’s the silver medalist game on the podium of indie rpg horrors). We are entitled to too many passages of chases that are quite unwieldy (the RPG Maker engine is really not made for that unfortunately). The progression is therefore done through some pretty nice puzzles to solve, accessible to everyone without being too complex most of the time (I exclude the difficulty of the puzzles in EXTRA mode for the review, since it is optional).

In addition, for the 2D survival horror level there are some very good ideas put to work : the sudden changes when you are in a room, the movement of furniture when you return to a room already visited, the objects that move when you are leaving the room but which have remained unchanged when you return to check, the deaths so obvious that you still get fooled, the very short and intense chases (even if as said previously given the basic rpg maker system which is not made for it and the kinda useless script for walking diagonally does not make the chases easier) and a really good use of the void to increase the tension.

Speaking of sound, the game does not offer original or striking music sadly, but it is mainly the well-placed sound effects and the music timing and use that stops to warn of danger that will do a good job on your level of fear and paranoia during the visit of the house.

Then the story... I remember that when I was little, I thought that the game did not really have a story and that it was just horror gameplay, like : "I am imprisoned in a witch's house and I must escape!" but the details transmitted by the books inside the game and by the multiple endings make us discover a background and a story much darker than we could have imagined at the beginning. The story itself is told to us through the witch's diary, the chapters of which are scattered during the progression in the house, relating page after page the macabre history of this house and its resident.

And speaking of the end of the Witch's House or rather the two endings... I remember that it completely blew me away at the time. I absolutely did not expect it, and I think that the biggest part of us cannot expect it. The first ending (called END?) leaves us with a feeling of success but confusion, because after all : we escaped and the witch did not kill us ! It’s supposed to be our Happy Ending ! Why would it not be a real ending..? And here comes the plot twist and the real ending, which we can unlock by recovering Ellen’s, the witch, knife in the closet of one of the rooms before running away from the house : We learn that the girl we play was in reality the witch of the house, Ellen, all along, having stolen the body of the young Viola after having used the body exchange spell with the real one as we can read in her diary in her room before the last chase !

So, what turned out to be the True and Good Ending is actually a terrible Bad Ending for Viola ! Disturbing, that's the word. Especially when you can see her own father kill his daughter imprisoned in the witch's mutilated body with a gunshot and then leave with the witch laughing in her daughter's body... just a terrible ending, I feel still so bad for the little Viola, it's terrible...

In the end, The Witch House was the very good horror game I remembered that is certainly not revolutionary in everything it does, but it does its job very well. I highly recommend it whenever I can to fans of the genre, or to people who think that a 2D game can't scare them ! And last little thing, the game got a manga adaptation in two volumes that I recommend to read after playing since it’s a prequel to the game and give us more information about our characters !

fun

ill never see teddy bears the same way

its one of those games where there is no good ending which is like a new change but damn i didn't expect it to be this f*cking sad lol
its a 1.5 hour game tho i recommend getting it on sale

Wonderful game

If you want to know the story, watch the walkthrough on YouTube. Such a simple game with such a simple plot doesn't deserve your money. Unless at a big discount.

If you want a good ending let Viola kill you and take her body back

:(

i literally bought this 3 days ago or something and ive played it once every single day. i am in love. i love it.

Comentario Analítico: "The Witch's House" / "魔女の家 Majo no Ie" (MV)

En 3 de Octubre del 2012 estrenó de la mano de Fummy uno de los mayores exponentes del horror producido en RPG Maker (En este caso en la edición VX), vease 魔女の家 Majo no Ie, también conocido como The Witch's House, y el 30 de Octubre del 2018 fue re-publicado a modo de remasterización por DANGEN Entertainment, elaborado en RPG Maker MV y acompañado de visuales actualizados y una nueva dificultad.

Un año tras su estreno original fue lanzada la novela "The Witch's House: The Diary of Ellen", que en 2019 fue además adaptada a un manga de dos volúmenes. Y el 16 de Junio del 2020 obtuvo una edición gratuita para Smartphones de la mano de GOODROID, sólo en Japonés.

Supo destacar por cuán macabro es y así posicionarse en el podio de los grandes juegos de este subgénero, su argumento requiere del Final Verdadero para ser entendido apropiadamente y es ahí cuando se nos presenta con un giro argumental muy reservado pero impactante y cohesivo con los acontecimientos previos. Es además un producto muy corto, mecánicamente se reduce a puzles y obstáculos, hay tantas persecuciones y formas de morir que por momentos me recordó a Ao Oni, pero más elaborado.

En su momento sufrió de críticas negativas por no tener ningún final feliz, personalmente opino que no todos los juegos de esta gama deben contar con finales de todos los tipos, y sus dos cierres encajan perfectamente con el tono con el que se presenta.

¿En conclusión? The Witch's House es impactante y macabro, y esta remasterización es excelente. Es una pena que cada año tengamos menos juegos de este estilo.

Wishing these type of games goes on but sadly they are getting less and less as days passes........

Very simple yet fun game. Short and refreshing.

Yo shoutout to my dad for shooting a blind legless girl best dad of the year

One of my fav game

Great game, great plot even though I've seen people play this and played it myself. The game's lore is also worth looking up if you want to dive deeper into it from the manga and the novel. Though, it's such a shame that there's no achievements to collect.

a game that got me into the rpg horror genre when i was a kid, still a fan 8 years later

A solid little game.

The Witch's House, if compared to others of its kind such as Ib and Mad Father, is a lot less-focused on story, and more so on its puzzles. it has like 20 lines of dialogues at best, most of it being at the end of the game.

The pixel art looks as great as any other remastered RPGhorror titles and the background music, while limited in variety, are all also decent.

The puzzles are great. Not all too complicated but not too simple either, some of them can also be quite the head-scratchers which makes them all the more satisfying once you manage to solve them.

The story presented in the game is, limited, for lack of better wording, there's not much to comment on it. It's fine and serves its purpose well.

- DIFFICULTY: EXTRA -

After you get the true ending of this game, the optional extra difficulty is opened up for you in case you want to suffer more.I actually found it quite enjoyable at first because the sheer amount of extra ways of dying gives each of them a bit of a comical feel to me, for whatever reason. The revamped puzzles also play a part in that enjoyment!

.......

in the beginning, that is..

call it skill issue (it probably is) but the later segments of extra difficulty just feel a bit unfair at times..........

puzzles being too unclear, enemies being stupid fast, barely helpful puzzle hints.....

it really has you looking through every nook and cranny, which, can get really annoying. because instead of clever puzzles it just feels like a time waster........................................i'd recommend you taking that statement with a handful of salt because it's entirely possible i was just being an idiot and didn't pay enough attention.


All in all,optional hard difficulty aside, there's really no word that i can use to describe this game better than "solid". it's not too shabby, but nothing noteworthy either.
I'd recommend buying it when it's on sale though, because for what it is, the full price is just not worth it...................


P.S : this game has a manga and i'd HIGHLY recommend reading it if you're interested in knowing more about the game's story. it is SUCH a good read and gives SO much background and characterisation to the characters of "The Witch's House" who would otherwise fall a bit flat when viewed purely from the game's standpoint. Itis SUCH a tragic story and i LOVE it. I went from giving puck all to Viola to really liking her character.



screw you ellen. you ain't no witch, but a bitc---


(6.5/10 game. 10/10 manga. would die again)

Excellent game, it has good music, atmosphere and an interesting lore 10/10

A must have for your horror RPG collection.

classic jrpg horror game with insane plot twists and nice horror build up. 10/10

classic

A girl with yellow pigtails wakes up in the woods under the gaze of a mysterious black cat, where her curiosity will lead her along the cat's fur trail to a strange house where terrible nightmares and truths meet.

With a total of two endings and two others that only add certain dialogues to the story of the two main endings. One of these endings is in the extra difficult mode once you've finished on medium level, where the puzzles are more developed and thoughtful, there's more tension around every corner and a raw, frightening atmosphere from start to finish.

The music composed by Fummy does not pass by, hitting every note of the floors of this mansion of horrors and in the chases this level seizes in a magnificent way.

The Witch's House is one of the classic horror rpg maker games that has graced Steam with a great makeover and a remembered look. Its story is captivating and psychologically suspenseful, with an impactful twist at the end. The extra mode is extremely fantastic and better enhanced, causing that aversion in the desire to have more doors of this mansion to recognize. It's a memorable game for lovers of this genre and you won't be disappointed!

Gierka taka sobie, fabulka meh, zagadki byly spoko tak samo jumpsacry. Moim zdanime lepiej sobie kupic cos innego i po prostu obejrzeć gameplay

it was fun but i finished it in under two hours. wish it was longer

dope lil game

grade A little game. the end message i got from meting up with your dad is... stay strapped. they can resist magic but not lead.

juegazo