Song of Horror Complete Edition

About Song of Horror Complete Edition

Song of Horror was made by Protocol Games, a studio in Madrid, and released episode by episode on PC from October 2019. The Complete Edition gathers all five episodes, and came to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 28 May 2021. It is sold on Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation and Xbox, and the console versions also play on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

The famous writer Sebastian P. Husher has vanished with his whole family, and the assistant his editor sent to his house never came back. You follow the trail with 13 playable characters tied to the story, each with their own view of it, through Husher's mansion and on to places such as an antique shop, a forgotten abbey and an abandoned mental hospital. A cursed music box, and the entity bound to it, sits at the heart of it.

It plays like the fixed-camera survival horror of the 1990s: you explore, collect items, read notes and solve puzzles. The difference is the Presence, an entity driven by an AI that adapts to what you do rather than following a script. It may push against a door you must hold shut, or come close enough that you must hide and slow your breathing. If it gets a character, that character is gone for good, and you go on with another.

The fear is the waiting: you never know when the Presence will come, and losing a character you have spent hours with weighs on every choice. It suits players who like slow, puzzle-led horror in the line of Alone in the Dark and the old Resident Evil, and who can bear permanent losses.

Each episode takes roughly one to three hours, and the main story runs to about 15 hours in all. Expect jump scares, blood and violence, strong language and the use of alcohol and tobacco. The game holds a 71 Top Critic Average on OpenCritic and is rated Mostly Positive on Steam.

How to play Song of Horror Complete Edition

1. Buy the Complete Edition on Steam, GOG, the Epic Games Store, PlayStation or Xbox and start the first episode.
2. Choose a character for the episode; each reacts differently to clues and objects.
3. Explore the location under fixed camera angles, collecting items and reading notes.
4. Solve the puzzles that open the way forward.
5. When the Presence comes, react: hold the door, hide, or calm your breathing until it passes.
6. If a character dies, pick another and carry on; the dead stay dead.

Tips

• Listen before you open doors; sound is the first warning of the Presence.
• Do not rush: careless running and loud actions draw the entity.
• Keep a light source ready; your lamp or candle matters.
• Spread risks across the cast instead of relying on one favourite character.

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