Experience a narrative-driven 3D adventure that explores grief and legacy.

Lunacy Studios announced that The House of Hikmah is set to be released for the PC via Steam on April 8. This narrative-driven 3D adventure explores grief and legacy. It features English and Arabic text and voiceover localization.

The game is made possible by a team of AAA veterans who have worked in different titles that include the likes of Life is Strange, Star Wars: Battlefront, Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed, and The Walking Dead, to name a few. The studio aims to create narrative-rich games that explore culture, emotion, and identity.

The House of Hikmah invites players to take on the role of Maya, a curious and determined 14-year-old girl searching for answers after her father's passing. They get to solve physics-based puzzles via an ancient elemental heirloom that her father left behind. Players glide through wind channels and bend the matter of objects and larger than life structures to traverse the environment.

Along their journey, players get to meet an idiosyncratic cast of historical scholars from the Islamic Golden Age. Each of the nine distinct worlds represent a different scholars’ expertise along with their own healing journeys. The thoughtfully-crafted adventure is sure to immerse players as it features fully voice-acted dialogue with talents that include Cairn’s Sophia Eleni as Maya, Battlefield 6’s Nezar Alderazi, Assassin's Creed Mirage’s Laila Alj, Split Fiction’s Ben Turner, and Talal Karkouti, to name a few.

Every step taken within the Mystic Realm brings Maya closer to finding peace and healing. However, the road is not without its struggles. That’s because she has to overcome a strong and surreal force that embodies unmanaged grief known as the Widow to achieve her true goals.

In a statement, Lunacy Studios Creative Director Faris Attieh shared that they wanted to offer a “universally relatable story” that represented the difficult journey through grief. One of the ways to make this happen was to have the main character have interactions with the scholars. He added that the inclusion allowed them to have a chance to showcase the life of Maya’s father and his lessons. In addition, it also allowed them to represent the Islamic Golden Age, something Attieh said “has never been seen before in games.”

For those excited about the game, wishlist The House of Hikmah on Steam now.