Jason tells his sergeant to pull himself together in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
Jason tells his sergeant to pull himself together in The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.
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The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes review — Saving friends and enemies alike

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 7 min

I’ve been a fan of Supermassive Games horror titles ever since Until Dawn, which was my favorite game of 2015. And so I was eager to play the latest title from the developer, The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes.

This choose-your-own-death adventure game will be familiar to players of 2019’s Man of Medan and 2020’s Little Hope, the two earlier narrated horror stories from The Dark Pictures Anthology. This third installment takes us underneath the deserts of Iraq in 2003, just after the end of the initial hostilities of the Iraq War.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.