The Pier House - Episode 2
A downloadable game
Download and play The Pier House - First days, instead. It has Episode 1 & 2 combined, with changes and fixes - https://acidulatul.itch.io/the-pier-house-first-days
Welcome to The Pier House, a PSX inspired game series where you follow Christian, a paranormal investigator/ghost hunter, hired by an anonymous client to investigate and cleanse an abandoned pier house.
He offers a lot of money for this job, which is very suspicious, but with your daughter sick and in need of treatment, you decide to take the risk. Fuck it, what's the worst that could happen... right?
The place was apparently taken over by some satanists or something? I don't know, they were calling themselves "The Followers of Moloch" (what a stupid name). That was a while ago though and they were arrested, so the rumor of hauntings are probably fake, like most of them are.
Episode 2:
After a night of visiting hell and having an ugly ass demon as a roommate, you wake up on your second day at the Pier House.
Need to start your investigation and finish as soon as possible, your daughter isn't getting any better..
You have to find and cleanse the spirits residing in this place.
Will you be able to do it? Hopefully. Will anyone try to stop you? Maybe. But will you face it down with courage or run away?
There are 2 main endings to this episode, one good and one bad, and a few hidden smaller ones. There are also plenty of interactions around the place.
Since people keep missing like more than 2/3rds of the game by not checking around enough, I'll give you a hint: follow the emf, it's something in the woods.
I'm not adding tutorials because I'm not treating you like children. You know how to play games, just look around a bit more. Plus I feel like tutorials and screen prompts/hints kinda take me out of the experience, personally.
Link to intro song: https://files.catbox.moe/5a4mzd.mp3
Controls:
WASD - Movement (shocking, I know)
Shift - Sprint
L-Ctrl - Crouch
E - Interact (you know it's interactable when the crosshair changes)
Q - Pick up items (and rotate by holding down left click and moving the mouse around)
C - Prone
F - Flashlight
RMB - Zoom (yep, the good old zoomed eyeballs)
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There's an issue with your game. The moment after you dig the grave for the corpse, you get attacked by the monster. The only way I've found to get around this is to start Part Three.
Oh man, sorry to hear that. The monster should only attack if you stray too far from the hole. I was so sure I figured out all the kinks haha. Thanks for telling me about it and thank you for playing.
Keep it up! Also, I think i got tagged for "self harm" on youtube. Its weird cause i have over 1200 horror videos with no problem with it. I think its still available tho
Full Play NO Commentary
Thanks a lot for playing, brother. I'm glad you liked it.
The issue is the hanged guy, probably. I don't know, youtube is sometimes retarded.
God bless.
Descargue el juego 2 veces pero no me deja mover la camara (el cuello del personaje) por asi decirlo jaja, controles y todo funciona bien, pero es como si el mouse no funcionara y no me dejara girar :c pd. la primera parte me encanto un abrazo! <3
Ei amigo, obrigado por conferir o jogo. Na parte do menu do jogo, você pode pressionar ESC e alterar a sensibilidade, ela é muito baixa por padrão, mas você pode alterá-la para o que quiser. Deus abençoe.
Made a video
Thanks for playing, I hope you liked it :)
Yeah we enjoyed our time with it and it was interesting that you had an extra thing for us burning ourselves with the body
Thanks for playing again, my friend. Some of the issues that you talked about were fixed in the latest upload, the one where I combined episode 1 and 2 into one game, and I made some changes and fixes. But not all was fixed. You're right, there are some shortcomings. I have a lot to learn, I'm still very early into game development. Thank you for the honest feedback, it helps a lot. I missed the part about the shovel being available too early, I don't know how, I think I just copied the van from another scene and forgot it there, unfortunately. The part about the body being hard to find because of the trees is intentional. I wanted you guys to explore a bit, try to find it.
Thank you for playing, God bless, brother.
Well, the search for a corpse is very interesting, but the problem is not when you are looking for it, but when you have already found it and want to go back to the road. It is very difficult to do this, because not only does it not block the view, but also the trees are very dense and it is very difficult to determine in the dark where to go, and you get stuck in the brushes. And at the expense of the van, I think it’s really possible to change it, because it has a shovel, which, according to the plot, we should not find yet and it disappears due to scripts. In general, while everything is on this, I will wait for the third episode, friend. Good luck in development)
Hey brother, thanks so much for playing. I'm really happy you liked it. Are you talking about the ending? Yeah, just a cliffhanger XD
No problem and yea I was talking about the cliff hanger but also the entire episode was just chaotic
Great game. Loved the Episode 2.:)
You didn't finish the game, but thanks for playing anyway, glad you liked it man.
God bless.
Got the fire ending and the non bugged ending! Thanks for such a great game, can't wait to play Episode 3 and find more funny endings and secrets!
That's awesome, man, happy to hear you liked it.
Decent improvement for sure, but it just ended when I was getting into it.
Thanks for playing, man. It didn't end at the body carrying part, you missed like two thirds of the game haha.
(Yeah, all 7 episodes will be combined into a full game, don't worry)
This was a great short horror game and an awesome follow up to the first chapter. I did rage really hard during the fire part mainly since I didn't realize the left part of the menu were checkpoints so I didn't have to replay all of it to get back and also not realizing Q was how to pick up the sticks. Also I died a bunch. Still really awesome and can't wait for part 3.
Hahah sorry you had a bit of rage going, brother. I did try to lay everything out as best I could, while not exactly handholding you guys. I dislike it when games treat you like you're mentally disabled. I just wanted to give you guys the satisfaction of figuring things out yourselves, but I guess I failed.
Also, the controls were listed on the game page, so that's on you :D
Seriously though, thanks for playing, means a lot you guys enjoy my work.
God bless.
Yep literally as I was leaving the review I saw the controls listing Q. I honestly think maybe I just kept backing up to far from the fire and getting killed from that but didn't realize that till I was editing the video. Still an awesome game!
Cool, thanks for playing.
I really enjoyed the second chapter! It was awesome! I died a bunch of times, and I hope I got the proper ending for this episode, but I had a blast! You got me pretty good with the noises and sounds that just made me be on edge! Scared me a bunch too! I can't wait to see how chapter 3 plays out! Amazing job!
Happy you liked it, brother, thanks a lot for playing. By the way, I added the 3 buttons to play the first, second and third part in case you died and didn't want to redo the whole game. But the proper start is to just walk towards the house. God bless.
Oh I had it wrong then! That makes a lot more sense! Thanks for clearing that up!
I really like how you made this 2nd episode. Scary, Creepy and the background sound made it way too horrifying but it would have been better if you give a skip button on graveyard scene though...Anyways love your game keep it up!!!
(Also your png jumpscare didn't get me hahaha...)
Hi bro, thanks a lot for playing, it's awesome you liked it.
The graveyard scene is skippable after like 15-20 seconds. I could've made it earlier, but I wanted you to feel bad for killing the guy haha. Sorry about that.
Thanks for checking in, hope to see you for episode 3 (hint: it's about the lake)
God bless.
Man the first 2 parts of this episode were really good. The atmosphere was great and the creepy moments kept me wondering what was going to happen next.
Part 3 though feels frustrating due to the mechanics not being explained very well. I kept dying without figuring out why just because I moved too far from the grave. When I eventually found out you needed to light the fire and stay close to it, I dumped all the logs at once thinking that's how you kept the demon away. I ended up dying like 10 times before giving up. It wouldn't even be so bad if you could skip the graveyard cutscene after watching it or adding a retry button that takes you straight to part 3 instead of back to the main menu.
I gotta say though, the interactive main menu is very nice and a cool detail. Can't wait for the rest of the episodes!
I think the character mentions that you should probably throw in a log around every 30 seconds or so to keep the fire going. You can do it!
Hey there, thanks for playing, I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
I felt like I explained the mechanics of the third part enough, because I didn't want people to feel like I'm holding their hands through everything. I don't like that, my games aren't tutorials. I wanted to give you the satisfaction of figuring out stuff by yourselves. I'm sorry if I didn't do it properly. Also, the three buttons in the main menu are added specifically to retry what part you want, in case you die, so you can just retry the third part again.
Awesome you liked the main menu, felt kinda proud of it myself :D
God bless.
Bro I live alone and I started playing this sitting in the dark, when the knocking started I nearly shit myself... I also got in the van but not sure if that's the only ending
No, bro. There's way more. I'll give you a hint: pick up the emf meter and scan around. You missed probably more than half of the game, haha. Thanks for playing though, God bless.