House of Detention

Editorial Has potential

House of Detention is a deliberately absurdist multiplayer horror-comedy that leans hard into meme culture and shock humour—a Slenderman-style collect-and-escape game set in various institutional maps where muscular pursuers try to catch you. Community opinion is sharply divided: a large vocal contingent treats it as an unironic cult classic, praising the absurdist premise, multiplayer chaos, and willingness to go weird; others find it tedious, unfunny, or simply broken on their hardware. The game's appeal hinges entirely on whether you're in on the joke—for its audience, it delivers memorable moments and multiplayer laughs; for everyone else, it's 20 wasted minutes. Performance is a genuine problem: multiple reports of severe FPS drops and crashes even on low settings, though a handful of players report it runs fine. If your PC can handle it and you enjoy anarchic, deliberately ridiculous online play, it's worth a look; otherwise, skip.