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Dad's Monster House
Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“Was excited to play this for the drawings and character design and was happily surprised to find a complex little puzzle game/mystery with replay value :) A highlight is the game actually has a notebook to write your clues down, brought back old MYST memories and made the game…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Gotta like this humorous/macabre game that involves searching through a large house for clues of Dad's disappearance. You meet robots and strange creatures along the way, pick up useful items and solve puzzles to open further doors. The only niggle is that you spend ALOT of time…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Fun game.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedLatest official news
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2021-9-29update:
- Added a mouse pointer style - Fixed an issue that would cause a dialogue to trigger during item giving to not end the puzzle properly - Fixed bug disappearing in the lower right corner of diary afte
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | 2D Platformer · Hidden Object · Surreal · Horror · Psychological Horror · Puzzle · Dark · Fantasy · Story Rich · Point & Click · RPG · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on Phone · Remote Play on Tablet · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean |
| Achievements | 21 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @3.3GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel GMA 950 DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 4 GB available space