Holloway is a house that does not agree with itself. You and your team step in through the Study, a warm room of lamplight and old books, and the keeper of the door opens a hallway that was not there a moment ago. Beyond it is a dark, shifting labyrinth, and the only way anyone leaves is together.
Scattered deep in the maze are glowing sigils, and none of them will lift for a single pair of hands. So you split up, you call to each other across the walls, and you talk. Most of a run happens out loud: someone describes a corridor, someone else recognizes it, a third person says the walls just moved and none of that holds anymore. Carry the sigils back to the Study, set them into the great seal, and the front door opens.
A run takes about fifteen minutes and never repeats. There are no jump scares and no way to lose a player, so Holloway lands well with a team that does not usually play games. Bring a voice call and two to ten explorers. The house handles the rest.
How to play
Step 1
Gather in the Study
Pick a name and step inside. Everyone lands in the Study together, and the first one through the door becomes its keeper. Play over a voice call, since the whole game is people talking to each other.
Step 2
Open the hallway
When the team is ready, the keeper opens a doorway into the maze and you all walk in. Move with WASD, look with the mouse (click to capture the cursor, Esc to release), and press E to interact.
Step 3
Explore in pairs
The sigils will not lift for one person, so head into the dark in twos and stay in earshot. When you lose track of each other, press F to send a flare arcing above the walls and call everyone back to you.
Step 4
Mark your way
There is no minimap, and the house will not allow one. Drop glowing way-lights with Q to remember a route, and press Q beside one of your own to pick it back up and reuse it further on.
Step 5
Mind the shifts
Roughly once a minute the house rearranges itself: a low rumble, then walls rise and sink. The maze stays connected, but the map in your head is now wrong. Find each other again, then read the corridors from scratch.
Step 6
Seal the door
Carry each sigil back to the Study and set it into the great seal. When the last one drops into place, the front door opens and the whole team walks out together.
How your group joins
Step 1
Open the game
The game opens a room for you and shows an invite link in its lobby.
Step 2
Send the link
Copy the invite link from the lobby and paste it in your group chat, Slack, Teams or the meeting chat.
Step 3
Everyone joins
Players open the link, type a name and they are in. No account and no download. Only you need an account.
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