Nightholme is a multiplayer horror action video game developed and published by Studio Ellipsis.

About

Transform. Hunt. Escape.

Nightholme is a player-versus-player-versus-environment horror action game where three-player squads track nightmarish bosses, outplay rival teams, and survive an ever-shifting city overrun by the Gloom. To defeat the monsters you need to become one.

Strategic Multiplayer Player-Versus-Player-Versus-Environment

Plan each run with intent. Choose your character, a Grimrunner, drink Nocturn—a dangerous transforming potion to lock in your archetype, and shape your build through a flexible skill tree. Every choice changes how you move, fight, and survive.

Dynamic Transformations and Tactical Depth

Switching archetypes isn’t just cosmetic—it rewires your entire playstyle. Each form comes with distinct strengths, counters, and synergies that reward scouting, timing, and smart team comps.

Boss Hunts and Progression

Follow clues, push through escalating threats, and clash with other squads on the way to a Nightwalker boss. Every encounter shifts with the map’s conditions, forcing new tactics under pressure. Win, and carry power forward with persistent upgrades between the sessions.

Living City and Event System

Explore a corrupted urban open world where encounters and conditions evolve – routes change, enemies mutate, opportunities appear and vanish. No two hunts play the same.

Outplay the Living, Survive the Dead

The rival trio squads are after the same prize. Read their builds, bait their mistakes, and decide when to engage or disappear. The wrong fight at the wrong time will cost you everything.

World and Lore

Nightholme‘s lore peels back a layered, haunted history—cosmic horror interwoven with classic horror tropes and archetypes, reimagined in unsettling, unexpected ways. The deeper you dig, the stranger it gets.

Nightholme expands beyond the traditional player-versus-player-versus-environment loop, adding more to the core experience by offering deeper, sustained, and immersive gameplay and progression. With stealth and survival as core pillars, players will make strategic and tactical choices that shape their experience in this dynamic and horrific open world.