Forgotten Hill Disillusion

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A museum of grotesque exhibits, and a town that does not let you leave.

Platforms: PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
Stores: Steam, itch.io
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (88% of 225 reviews); 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store (49 ratings); 4.9 out of 5 on itch.io (7 ratings)
Players: 1
Controls: Mouse: point and click (controller on consoles)
Made by: FM Studio
Released: 2019

Get it on Steam itch.io (Windows, macOS)App Store (iPhone, iPad)Google Play PlayStation Store (PS4, PS5)Xbox Nintendo eShop (Switch)Forgotten Hill (maker's site)

What frightens Mr. Larson searches the Forgotten Hill Museum, where the exhibits are wrong: a statue with a tongue lolling from its mouth in a blood-spattered cellar, a pickled foetus in a jar, skeletons and specimens, eyes glowing under a library carpet, and grotesque keepers who watch you; the store warns of a horror atmosphere with fantasy violence and blood.
Content: blood, violence.

Forgotten Hill Disillusion is a first-person point-and-click horror puzzle game by FM Studio, the fourth chapter of the Forgotten Hill main story. Helping Mr. Larson, you explore more than 50 rooms of the town's disturbing museum, solving over 60 puzzles among grotesque exhibits and residents, and try to find the truth and a way out.

About Forgotten Hill Disillusion

Forgotten Hill Disillusion is a horror puzzle game by FM Studio, released on Steam for Windows and Mac in November 2019. The store calls it the fourth chapter of the Forgotten Hill main story. It is also on itch.io, the App Store and Google Play, and it is on PlayStation 4 and 5, with Ratalaika Games publishing the Xbox and Nintendo Switch versions.

Welcome to the Forgotten Hill Museum, where the past, the present, nature, art and the unknown are on show, and the first advice is never to believe your eyes. You help Mr. Larson in his search for the truth across more than 50 locations in four sections: The Library, Flora and Fauna, Mysteries of the Abyss and Sculptural Art. You click from view to view in first person, read books and notes, pick up and combine items and solve more than 60 puzzles, from clockwork and colour codes to fossil and specimen cases.

The horror is in the exhibits and the people who keep them. The screenshots show a cellar of chains and blood with a statue whose tongue hangs from its mouth, a foetus floating in a jar among pinned insects, skeletons, jellyfish tanks, and two glowing eyes under a library rug, while hunched, pale residents and stern guards look on. The store notes a horror atmosphere with some moderate fantasy violence and blood.

There is a one-click hint system and text in nine languages. Players praise the number and difficulty of the puzzles and the spooky drawn art; some found it hard to know which room to try next. It suits players who like Rusty Lake and Cube Escape and want a longer, denser puzzle game in the same grim style.

How to play Forgotten Hill Disillusion

Buy it on Steam or itch.io for Windows or Mac, on the App Store or Google Play, or on PlayStation, Xbox or Switch.
Click around each room in first person to look closer and move between the museum's sections.
Read the books and notes you find; many hold the clues to codes and mechanisms.
Pick up items, combine them in your inventory and use them to solve the puzzles and open new rooms.
Use the hint button if you are stuck, and keep going until you find the truth and the way out.

Screenshots

A pale statue with its tongue hanging out and a bloodied idol stand in a cellar of chains and splattered blood

A museum room of pinned insects and spiders, with a foetus floating in a glass jar

A dim library with tall bookshelves and two glowing eyes peering from under a rug

A hunched old woman with a cane stands among a skeleton, a creeping plant and an anatomy chart

A hand holds an open golden pocket watch with clockwork symbols, a puzzle clue

Tips

When you are stuck, go back through rooms you have opened; players say knowing where to go next is the hardest part.
Keep notes of symbols and colours, which often belong to a puzzle in another room.
The hint system is one click away, so do not get stuck for long if you just want the story.
Official walkthroughs for the series are on forgotten-hill.com.

Questions

What platforms is Forgotten Hill Disillusion on?

Windows and Mac (Steam, itch.io), iPhone and iPad, Android, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

Do I need to play the other Forgotten Hill games first?

The store calls it the fourth chapter of the Forgotten Hill main story. Its puzzles stand on their own, though the story makes more sense if you know the town.

Is Forgotten Hill Disillusion scary?

It is grim and grotesque rather than full of jump scares; the store warns of a horror atmosphere with moderate fantasy violence and blood.

How many puzzles are there?

The store promises more than 60 puzzles and riddles across more than 50 locations.