After a few anxious delays, we’re happy to announce Nightmare House: The Original Mod is NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE on Steam! Get it here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954780/Nightmare_House_The_Original_Mod/


The game is originally known as “Nightmare House 2”, a horror Source mod in 2010 released on Moddb. It packaged an earlier horror map of a haunted house, Nightmare House, with a full fledged story of a hospital run over by a failed experiment, Nightmare House 2.

Nightmare House was featured in the Moddb 2010 Mod of the Year Awards, played by super early days of Markiplier, jacksepticeye, PewDiePie and others. Since 2010, we’ve only released one more iteration in 2015 in an effort to fix the issues followed by the 2013 Steampipe update. At the time, shipping mods on Steam wasn’t as accessible- so it’s really exciting for us to finally ship it here now, free and accessible to everyone.

NH:TOM shipping went kinda like this, but hey it shipped
Now with The Original Mod in 2024, it was super important for us to respect the same classic horror experience. But other than just making it available here, we’ve peppered it with many small improvements.

To start, the mod is now under Mapbase, giving us access to new modern features such as tree sway, better lighting and fog. Thanks Mapbase! We also took this opportunity to retouch a few areas in the game, switched some textures, improved the lighting, fixed the harsh flickering lights across the maps and more.

We have additionally rebalanced a few parts of the game like the boss fight, and since we’re on Steam, there are now Steam Achievements to hunt. You might want to try to find the hidden Dave Co map.

If you’re looking for The Lost Files- we will add them in a future patch sometime soon, but in the meantime you can find the original sources on Moddb.


One of the best things about Nightmare House is that we now properly support localization. Many of the hard coded strings in the maps were fixed, allowing better localization support. With the help of an awesome team, aside from base English, Nightmare House now supports:

• Traditional/Simplified Chinese
  
• Ukrainian
  
• Russian
  
• Japanese

And we want to add more- Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, etc. If you’d like to help localize Nightmare House and you have experience localizing games, let us know. Experience with Source mods is a plus but not a must. Hop over to our Discord and just say it, anywhere. Our server is pretty chill so we’ll catch it and ping you back.

We can’t say this enough, so we’ll say it again- Thank you for playing Nightmare House over so many years, back then and again now.

We’d love to hear what you think, whether you’re revisiting the game after a decade, or this is your first shot at Nightmare House. You can really help by spreading the word and leaving a review! And until our next stuff, don’t be a stranger and drop a follow.

EDIT: It is coming November 14th. Stay tuned

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Last week we announced today, October 28th, to be the release date of Nightmare House: The Original Mod on Steam.

We also took the time to give some context on why it might get delayed... and unfortunately we must delay the release.

The new game build is tested and ready. But even though we REALLY want to press the release button - we literally can't, since the app is still waiting for Steam to approve the final game build. The Steam review process usually takes a 3-5 days, or one week tops. It's been in review for about month now, which is... a lot longer than we could anticipate.

When we realized there was a chance of a delay, we considered changing the release date before we announced, but too many things were already locked in (be it the trailer we've sent a month in advance, or the steam backend not allowing for a release date change when it's too close to release).

So with our hands tied, we hoped for the best.


Now we wait. We hope it will take days, but we honestly don't know.

It's super stressful to not be able to deliver on time despite doing everything by the book and to the best of our ability. But we also remember you guys are extremely supportive and sympathetic. It's been 14 years since this mod first released. It was our first step into game development. And throughout the years it got infinite amounts of love.

If you are a creator, or would like to help us beta test, use the following link to apply for a Steam key for Nightmare House:

https://forms.gle/w2mevRqby2qTFwve6

In the meantime, you can check out streamers who started playing the new Steam release. Here's one:

Alan Zoka (8m subs) playing the new Nightmare House: The Original Mod on SteamFor now, we're also using this time to work on localizing the game to support more languages. If you are a translator who wants to help, join our Discord and feel free to ask for more details about it.

We'll keep you posted, and as soon as we get the OK, we'll make sure to release and re-announce it from the rooftops.

Nightmare House: The Original Mod has just been featured in the Indie Horror Showcase 2024! We've prepared a short trailer, check it out below:


This new release features the original game, now coming to Steam as a free HL2 mod. We've worked to keep the classic experience, with tiny upgrades including new Steam Achievements, lighting improvements, game balancing for a smoother experience throughout and more. We're also working with the community to support proper localization.

Achievements added:
- Escape was Always an Option
- Get Some A.S.S.
- Thrills, Chills and Acro-Skills
- Let the bodies hit the floor
- The Voice Behind the Slaughter
- and more

Revisit for a Dave Co experience
Our intended release date for Nightmare House: The Original Mod is October 28th, in just 4 days! *However, we prefer to be transparent and say there's a chance of a delay.

The game is going through the app review process, for about a month now, and we're eagerly waiting for a response. This typically takes a few days so we've fallen into unusual territory, unfortunately. You might ask, if uncertain, why not delay the release? While we just revealed the released date today, it's been in the system for a while and we're not allowed to change it on the app at this point. So while we wait for the review to resolve, we can't ship, but we also can't delay.

The bottom line is- we hope to be able to ship Monday, October 28th! We respect the app review process and will do whatever it takes to release within the required guidelines. If push comes to shove, that's OK. It might take a little longer, but we will hear back from the review team soon after and ship the game for everyone - for free.

If you're a content creator, a game reviewer, a streamer, or whatever else you'd like to call your excuse for playing horror classics this Halloween: ❤️ good news, you can actually play the game right now, regardless of all above. Fill in this form to apply:

https://forms.gle/w2mevRqby2qTFwve6


The zombie chef that cooks for you
While the aesthetics of Source can hardly be topped, sometimes you want your expensive PC fans to go whoosh and this is where Reimagined comes in. For a more brazen take on the Nightmare House series, we're also working on Nightmare House: Reimagined:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2744430/Nightmare_House_Reimagined/

For updates on the release schedule and what comes next, follow our dev page here on Steam or join our Discord community below. THANK YOU for playing NH for over 14 years < 3