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Ellingby House
Corporate collapse, financial crisis, a ransomware plague... and you have become trapped! The crumbling head office of J.R Holder & Sons will ensnare you in a mystery. Interact and navigate between rich, detailed 360° panoramas, while using items to uncover the story in Ellingby House.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“How in hell is this a free game, I will never understand :D Extremely high production value - great graphics, great sounds, pretty good FMV sequences - the only gripe I have are the original myst like movement system and the inability to skip animations, but all in all I…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Ellingby House in my opinion is easily the best free to play game on Steam. the graphics, the gameplay, the story line, and the puzzles are all top notch. I would recommend this game to anyone who loves a good mystery to solve.”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“It is now a free game, so literally no reason to try it out. I felt like pacing is pretty bad due to difficulty of the game. You need to look around a lot to actually progress, items hiding in the corner, approaching an object from a different direction etc. Not for me.”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
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Patch notes for v1.4
Bugfixes: Menu credits: now skippable with ESC. Fixed a division by zero in volume change. Fixed target volume levels when ducking and switching to menu. Fixed a timer bug when the car park fan starts
Free To Play Soon
Our next game is in development, but in the meantime we will be making Ellingby House free to play on Steam (no ads of course!) to bring in more players and get more reviews. Thank you to all our cust
v1.3.3 Bugfixes and improvements
Fix typo in Jasper laptop email. Set subtitles to on by default. Improved the performance of the magnifying glass lens shader. Fix potential uninitialized texture bug in videos. Fixed a top floor view
v1.3.2 Bugfix release
Fix for some computer applications not scaling correctly on high DPI screens or above HD resolution. Fix for infinite loop when switching to unsupported resolutions.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Adventure · Point & Click · Puzzle · FMV · Story Rich · Conspiracy · Mystery · Exploration · Cinematic · Realistic · Atmospheric · Drama (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Official site | https://jepforegames.com/ellingby-house |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 or later Processor: 64-Bit Dual-Core 2.0 GHz or better, AVX support Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: At least 2GB VRAM, OpenGL 4.4 or later Storage: 6 GB available space Additional Notes: We recommend playing on a 16:9 FullHD capable screen at a resolution of 1920x1080. Other resolutions are possible but will introduce letterboxing/pillarboxing to accommodate. Note: there are reports of black screens on the Nvidia GTX 765M and 950M graphics cards due to driver bugs. Please switch to Intel Integrated Graphics if your iGP