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Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Nightmare House: The Original Mod

Wake up, it’s time for the real nightmare to begin. Make your way through a terrorizing house, uncover the secrets of a haunted hospital, fight through hordes of the undead, and try to escape Nightmare House.

Released Nov 14, 2024 Developer We Create Stuff Platforms Windows Free to PlayHorrorAction-AdventureIndieMultiplayer
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

95.9%positive2,751 reviews
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Great ~2 hour game by a very talented and creative team. Basically Blue Shift meets F.E.A.R.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 3 found this helpful

“Reminds me of F.E.A.R with the atmosphere and story. Recommend it if you are bored and want to get spooked for a bit”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“If you like the F.E.A.R. game and you like the HalfLife series, you just HAVE to try this mod! You will not regret it.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

284all-time peak
0 50 100 2025 2026 89 avg · Nov 2024

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.

14achievements
11.5%median completion
4.2%rarest: Here comes the BOOM!
50.8% of players 31.7% of players 29.2% of players 28.5% of players 20.1% of players 16.5% of players 13.4% of players 11.5% of players 8.9% of players 7.1% of players 5.6% of players 5.2% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 50.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
50.8%Escape was Always an Option — Finish Nightmare House 1 (Prologue)
31.7%One Fell Swoop — Kill multiple zombies with a single axe swing
29.2%Right in the Brain Box! — Blow off 10 zombie heads
Rarest badges of honor
4.2%Here comes the BOOM! — Find the shotgun earlier than you should in Chapter 6
4.4%Thrills, Chills and Acro-Skills — Use upwards momentum to jump through the Elevator Hatch in Chapter 2
5.2%The Deliverance of Dave — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Mar 11, 2026
What’s coming for Nightmare House in 2026

I’ll cut straight to the point: We still have one more update in us for Nightmare House: The Original Mod . Nightmare House goes a long way. Let’s see… 2007 Nightmare House HL2 map pack was released (

Oct 22, 2025
Free game Days Without Incident is out now!

So just last year, we released Nightmare House: The Original Mod for free on Steam. You've probably checked it out if you're reading this post here. It was our little gift to you guys for In Sound Min

Sep 28, 2025
A new playable experience for this Halloween

It's almost October, our favorite month to play a good horror experience. Last year we were just wrapping up the release for Nightmare House: The Original Mod. The Source classic is finally here on St

Dec 16, 2024
Overwhelmingly Positive reviews + new languages available!

Just a month ago we release Nightmare House: The Original Mod on Steam, and we've since hit 97% Overwhelmingly Positive reviews! We've also just pushed support for additional languages, including: - I

Nov 14, 2024
Nightmare House is NOW AVAILABLE

After a few anxious delays , we’re happy to announce Nightmare House: The Original Mod is NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE on Steam! Get it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2954780/Nightmare_House_The_O

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Player tagsFree to Play · Horror · Action-Adventure · Indie · Multiplayer · Physics · Zombies · First-Person · Story Rich · Mod · Funny · Psychological Horror (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Captions available · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Keyboard Only Option · Playable without Timed Input
LanguagesEnglish * , Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Japanese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian *
Achievements14
Official sitehttps://wecreatestuff.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7+ Processor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz Memory: 1 GB RAM DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 10 GB available space