Haus Maria — PROLOGUE
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
HAUS MARIA
A Horror Dating SIM packed in the shape of a Visual Novel!
More than 17+ deaths in just the prologue.
Developed by Beau Van Dalen
The Story
After a disastrous experience of coming out to your family as a trans man, you find yourself alone at midnight, wandering the streets of Morcrest: a town home to the worshippers of Mor, the God Of Death.
Nobody will help you from fear of being cursed by Mor… except for a kind soul in a mansion on a hill, who conveniently lets you stay the night.
Of course, there’s a catch. But you don’t know that yet.
The Actors
Play as three different characters—your knowledge of Morcrest will change depending on your background.
The Socialite.
The ‘daughter’ of a Viscount… at least, on paper. You lived well, but your family will never accept you, they don’t want a ‘daughter’ who taints their reputation—Fine. You didn’t need them anyway. It’s time to leave Morcrest for good. You set out at night…
The Prince.
Sheltered Royalty—it’s possible your family could have accepted you, but you weren’t brave enough to face them head on, so you ran away to Morcrest in hopes of finding solace and time. You’re not from around here…
The Scapegoat.
Abuse and poverty are the two words most familiar to you—although you’ve been free for the first time in your life, without any resources to your name, it will be difficult to survive…
A hospitable young woman... probably.
A very mysterious man... at least, that's what he wants you to think.
Free-To-Play!
This visual novel is currently in development and therefore the prologue and beta versions are currently free-to-play! However, if you’d like to support this project, donations are always welcome and very helpful! Thank you so much for playing and for your interest in Haus Maria! This is my first video game, coding project & game jam, so excited to be sharing it with you!!!
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Roadmap
This is just the beginning.
In the future, please expect:
- Fully custom graphics, sprites, event illustrations and backgrounds.
- Voiced characters.
- Animated sprites.
- New playable characters.
- New romanceable characters.
- New unlocked areas.
- And more!
Credits
Visuals:
All background photos found on Unsplash
GUI by Skolaztika
Faerie sprite by 皿もなか屋さん
Gisette sprite by 麦田らっこ
Monstersprite by Tyler Warren
Mysterious Man Sprite by 丸尾花
Menu music:
"Ghost Castle" by kohrogi
In game music:
Nursery by Shononoki
Piano Instrumental Loops by Alkakrab
In the Quiet long night" by 蒲鉾さちこ:
Sound effects:
Super Dialogue Audio Pack by Dillon Becker. (This work is licensed under CC BY 4.0)
Horror SFX by Your Pal Rob
All other SFX by Pixabay
Page Still In Development, More Information Coming Soon.
Download
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Development log
- Support Haus Maria on Patreon! ❤Oct 28, 2023
- Thank you for 100 downloads!!!Oct 14, 2023
Comments
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I have a soft spot for crazy woman you see...Regardless, I love when VNs have plenty of choices as they feel more interactive and this game has no shortage of decisions to make, it was a pleasant surprise and adds a lot of replayability.
I read this is your first game, and for a Gamejam no less, I have to say, you are doign a great job so far, even if short it is very solid on story, graphics, character design and sound design, even on gameplay that is not the forte of Visual Novels.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for the kind words and for playing Haus Maria, Hikiyami Moriko!!!
The video was really fun to watch, I'm so happy you liked the variety in choices, I like this aspect in VNs too and hoped to make a VN where the player has as much agency as possible so I'm glad you felt that way while playing!
Thank you again for playing and for your encouraging feedback, very excited to continue developing Haus Maria!! I wish you an awesome day!
(P.S: To unlock the other deaths, they're in the two other character routes during the character selector; 'Viscount's Child', 'Royalty', 'Scapegoat' routes! :D)