Highlands, Deep Waters
Step into the gaming world with Highlands, Deep Waters, one of the top $6.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Hosted Games LLC, this captivating Books game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 28th September 2017, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 28th June 2023.
Whether you have a liking for Books, Adventure, or Role Playing games, Highlands, Deep Waters is sure to keep you hooked!
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While investigating a murder in a small Scottish town, you’ll find yourself embroiled in a world of secrets, cultists, and abyssal horror. What are you willing to do to solve the case? And what will you do when you don’t like the answer?
"Highlands, Deep Waters" is a 340,000 word interactive horror novel by Fernando B Neves and Lucas Zaper, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
- Play as an insightful Detective, a resourceful Criminal or a mysterious Scholar.
- Gather and interpret clues with the Deduction system. Will you solve the case?
- Face the hidden truths that derange your mind with the Sanity system.
- A carefully crafted town including hand-drawn maps, unique history and peculiar inhabitants.
- Play as a male, female, gay or straight. The Abyssal Ones treat everyone just the same.
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Find out what gamers are saying about Highlands, Deep Waters:
Great mixture of cosmic horror and hard boiled noir the brings out the best in both. Beautiful yet haunting prose that sticks with you. Well-done research into Scottish Gaelic language and mythology. Strongly recommend.
The story did a really good job making us feel like a character in an Lovecraftian horror story. To the point that we were trying to think ahead. Alot of things here surprised us.
We enjoyed this game very much, and personally finished it the second time we played it. We’ve noticed that the only reviews from people who didnt like it kept on mentioning how they would repeatedly die at the same spot. That is what made us stop playing the first time we downloaded. This time, however, we kept playing after that part and found the entire story to be thrilling. We wish people would take a deep breath and realize that its only part of the story. We can imagine how frustrating those reviews are. Anyway, it was fantastic, and we expect to find myself playing through it a few more times.
Fantastic game. 10/10. The storyline is linear at points – granted, this is because the end goal is to solve the case – but this works extremely well. There are enough little yet meaningful variations within the storyline to – right up to the very end – that strengthen the game’s replayability. The deduction work can be just a little bit frustrating at times, but we’re giving that a break. We just so happen to be in for a pound instead of a penny for this particular "case". Technically speaking, sometimes you’ll accidentally repeat actions over again – if you aren’t paying attention – because they aren’t removed from your options after you’ve performed them. It’s a small annoyance but it just means you have to pay attention, not just skim. There are no "penalties" if you repeat an action over again, as far as we know. In a nutshell, A+ game if you’re looking to scratch that itch for some disturbingly well written Cthulhu horror.
This story was so well-written. And dark. It’s for anyone who wants to imagine themselves within a Lovecraft storyline. The story touches something deep within you and we feel like your choices really make an impact. Waiting for the sequel, where hopefully the character we customized can be reloaded!!
We love this game its amazing but on 4 attempts we keep dying at the same spot either when the cult people take us or Im hit over the head and killed.
What a wonderful game. Playing this game was a very visceral experience for us. As our character slowly unraveled the mystery and sank further into madness, we found myself getting more and more paranoid in real life. We would highly recommend this game.
We have played nearly every title released for both Choice of Games and Hosted Games and this has quickly become one of our favorites. It is incredibly interesting from beginning to end, well written, and entirely unique. We couldn’t put down our phone from the time we began it until the conclusion. We would definitely recommend this game.
We’ve played many CoG/Hosted Games. It was a treat to play one which had a very different feel to it compared with others we’ve played. We dont want to give anything away, but the act of investigating the mystery changes your characters nature. Your choices influence what happens, but there is less emphasis on building stats and more emphasis on consequences of your decisions. There are many endings. We’ve only done one play-through so far, so we dont know how different the forks in the story will be. Its a long game. This was fun in that we got many hours of enjoyable play. It may be a hindrance if we want to get all the endings.
Amongst the other choice games, this one stands out for its focus on investigation and narrative. The horror elements in this story are top notch, and is arguably the best horror mystery title that Choice Games has to offer. The characters all have their own personalities, which make them memorable. If you like playing the role of the detective/occult expert, then this game is made for you.
This was a very pleasant surprise, well written and very lengthy. We very much enjoyed this. Its good that there are still good games coming out of hg because so far this year most of the games werent that great.
Really wanted to like this game. We havent seen a good horror game done in ChoiceScript yet, and this story was clearly a labor of love by7 someone who knows how to write…. …. Unfortunately, writing, by itself, does not a good game make. The problem with this story is that the main character gets to a decision point where the player has to make the right choice otherwise end up with a permanent game over. Theres no save point, theres no going back, its replay the entire game to get to this point again, and hope you make the right choice. We’ve played it through three times and, apparently, have not made the right choice (or series of choices?) to make it through to an optimal ending. As it is, restarting every single time is draining our patience…. If this game had the ability to restore to a previous save point (as other ChoiceScript games do,) this would be far less of an issue. As it is, unfortunately, this isnt even a three star game. We guess the developers tried to get around this issue by making the entire first part of the story skippable…. Okay, great, but what does that mean? The choices made in the first half of the game dont matter? In other games, we enjoy replaying/rereading stuff because we can see that our decisions have an impact on how the story progresses. Here, other than changing a few words here and there, they really dont. We hate to be so critical, because we really did enjoy the writing. In fact, we would pay to read a horror story by this team… Because it feels like this work wouldve been more successful as a story than an interactive game.