Don't Knock Twice

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One knock to wake her, twice to raise her from the dead.

Platforms: PC, VR, Xbox, Switch
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Mostly Positive on Steam (72% of 731 reviews); critics were less kind (Metacritic 56 on PC)
Players: 1
Controls: Keyboard and mouse or controller; in VR, tracked controllers with walking or teleport movement, seated, standing or room-scale.
Made by: Wales Interactive
Released: 2017

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What frightens To save her estranged daughter, a guilt-ridden mother must uncover the truth behind the urban legend of a vengeful, demonic witch: one knock to wake her from her bed, twice to raise her from the dead. By candlelight you search every room of a grand, dark manor house, picking up almost any object, while the witch's presence closes in and you find what you can to fight or escape her.
Content: horror themes throughout.

Don't Knock Twice is a first-person horror game by Wales Interactive, made alongside the 2017 film of the same name and playable with or without VR. A guilt-ridden mother searches a dark manor house for her daughter while the demonic witch of a local legend haunts it.

About Don't Knock Twice

Don't Knock Twice was made by the Welsh studio Wales Interactive and released in September 2017, alongside the horror film of the same name starring Katee Sackhoff. It is on PC through Steam, where one purchase lets you play in VR or on a normal screen and switch between the two, and on Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

The story follows a guilt-ridden mother and her estranged daughter. A local legend tells of a vengeful, demonic witch who wakes with one knock and rises from the dead with two, and to save her daughter the mother has to uncover the frightening truth behind the tale.

You explore a grand manor house in first person, carrying a candle through dim drawing rooms, a chapel and long corridors. Almost every object can be picked up and examined, from letters and phones to an axe, and you search for hidden clues and use items to fight or escape the terror around you. In VR, with tracked hands, that handling of objects is much of the fear.

Critics scored it low, while players on Steam rate it more warmly. It suits VR owners who want a haunted-house story to explore with their own hands.

How to play Don't Knock Twice

Buy it on Steam, Xbox or the Nintendo eShop; on PC choose VR or non-VR mode when you start.
Explore the manor in first person, carrying a candle for light.
Pick up and examine objects to find clues about the witch and your daughter.
Use the items you find to fight or escape when the witch's terror comes for you.
Search deeper into the manor until you find your daughter.

Screenshots

Don't Knock Twice key art: a brass goat-head door knocker on an old dark wooden door

Don't Knock Twice screenshot: a pentagram of lit candles around a burning cauldron in a stone chapel

Don't Knock Twice screenshot: a phone shows a message from Chloe reading I wish you were dead, while the player holds an axe in a dark drawing room

Don't Knock Twice screenshot: a candle held in the foreground of a dim manor living room with a fire burning

Tips

Play in VR if you can; the game is built so you handle almost every object yourself.
Read texts on the phone and notes you find; they move the story on.
In Oculus mode, turn on distance grabbing if reaching for objects is awkward.
Keep your candle with you; the manor's rooms are very dark.