About
Awaken your magic and break an ancient curse at a secret school of sorcery! What mysteries will you uncover at this crossroads between realms? A text-based fantasy novel, 280,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects.
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Releases
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OS
Windows 10
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Requirements and Deck status as listed on Steam, checked Oct 28, 2026.
House of the Golden Mask player count
concurrent players on Steam1playing now2h ago
1peak today
230-day peak
2highest we have seenNov 4, 2026
Oct 23daily peak, last 14 daystoday
Players counted on Steam every one to six hours; the daily peak is the highest count of the day.
House of the Golden Mask achievements
48 achievements on SteamRarest
Too Clingy
1.1%
The Future is a Memory
1.1%
Class Clown
1.4%
I Get Around Kiss every romanceable character.
1.4%
Obsidian's Gate
1.4%
Same Name!
1.7%
All 48 achievements by how many players unlocked them
Built by the Gods
1.7%
But Not as Equal Claim
2%
Founthain of Youth
2%
A Particularly Good Finder Find and return every item the missing magician left behind.
2.3%
Partners in Crime
2.6%
Lightning Rod
2.8%
To the Very End Do everything you can to break the curse with Nakara.
2.8%
The Transgressor Become a Transgressor.
2.8%
Nothing Personal
3.4%
The Road Less Traveled
3.7%
The Arbiter Become an Arbiter.
4%
The Master Alchemist Achieve a level of mastery in Alchemy.
4.6%
Better Than a Master of One Generalize in all three schools of magic.
4.6%
Derailing Linguistics Get a chuckle or two out of your fellow linguists.
5.4%
Shoot for the (Blood) Moon
5.4%
Derailing Occult Studies Get a chuckle or two out of your fellow occultists.
6.3%
Daman's Gift
6.6%
Derailing Alchemy Get a chuckle or two out of your fellow alchemists.
6.6%
Banished
6.9%
Is This Really a Good Time?
7.5%
The Master Occultist Achieve a level of mastery in Occult Studies.
7.8%
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Complete the Alchemy, Linguistics, and Occult Studies units.
8%
Romancing the Occultist
8%
These Things Do Happen
8.3%
Now You See Me Make an invisibility potion.
8.9%
The Master Linguist Achieve a level of mastery in Linguistics.
9.8%
The Last Kingdom
12.1%
I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost Exorcise the demon in the music room.
12.4%
Beyond the Very End
12.4%
Losers Weepers
13.2%
Call That a Graduation Walk out of the House at the end of term.
13.2%
Durante, Savior
14.1%
My Hero
14.7%
Nakara's Gift
15%
Open Sesame Unearth the mystery of the stone slab in the ruins.
17.9%
Abyss's Gift
18.2%
Hawthorn's Gift
19.9%
The Alchemist's Apprentice Complete the Alchemy unit.
21.3%
The Occultist's Apprentice Complete the Occult Studies unit.
23.1%
Playing Hooky Skip lectures to further your own agenda.
23.1%
Pop Goes the… Oh Gods
23.4%
The Linguist's Apprentice Complete the Linguistics unit.
31.5%
Share of Steam players who unlocked each achievement.