[STEAM] Hidden Door has Halloween games for adults who love fan fiction

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, a tech studio at the intersection of machine learning and immersive entertainment, launched its social role-playing platform where roleplay meets fan fiction.

And now it is celebrating Halloween with new content that lets you bring horror — or a little mischief — into your favorite worlds. Whether you’re roleplaying gothic romance, a campy monster mash-up, or a full-on zombie apocalypse, find it on Hidden Door.

New and upcoming content includes:

• Dracula – Step into
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  of gothic horror, set in modern-day Amsterdam. Play as a vampire, a hunter, or an unsuspecting guest, and see what unfolds. You can even earn the ability to bring vampires into your other worlds!
• Haunted Mansion – See how your characters survive the night in a haunted house with this new plot card. Try it in any world, from Call of Cthulhu to Pride and Prejudice!
• Zombies – Give any world a post-apocalyptic makeover. Who says your Regency ball can’t turn into a zombie siege?
• Big Fang (coming October 22) – A pop star romance with bite. Based on Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff from 831 Stories, experience what happens when your favorite boy band might also be vampires.

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, currently in early access.

Created by the technology studio of the same name, players can now be the main character within the lore and setting of iconic fictional universes, starting with Pride and Prejudice, The Wizard of Oz and The Crow from Pressman Film, with more universes launching soon.

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Hidden Door is where roleplay meets fan fiction, with help from AI. Source: Hidden Door Inspired by the improvisational storytelling of tabletop role-playing games, Hidden Door helps players to create new stories that expand on the original creator’s vision. Guided by an omniscient Narrator, players make characters that they then take on a variety of adventures, responding to prompts to guide the action in any direction. Completing stories unlock cards that players can copy between stories and share with other players, adding a new spin to well-known fictional worlds.

On Hidden Door, anyone can become a main character within the lore, story and setting of iconic fictional universes, starting with Pride and Prejudice, The Wizard of Oz and The Crow from Pressman Film. This is possible because of Hidden Door’s unique way of enabling players/fans to interact with their favorite intellectual properties.

I think of the fan’s interaction with canon and the AI to be like a “choose your own adventure” story that pushes back at you in the name of creating a better story.

More worlds are coming soon, including a collection of romantic fiction from 831 Stories, science fiction from authors Alan Dean Foster and Ramez Naam and additional stories from Pressman Film.

Powered by groundbreaking narrative systems technology, Hidden Door is building the future of immersive storytelling, with unlimited ways for fans to explore, expand, and remix their favorite worlds together. Hidden Door is available now on any desktop or mobile web browser at

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Hidden Door. Source: Hidden Door “Hidden Door is the place for our fans to play within the realms of their favorite fictional worlds,” said Hilary Mason, CEO of Hidden Door, in our interview this summer. “Just as fans bond over new book releases and gather together for movie opening weekend and TV season premieres, we are building a home for fans of books, films and shows to socialize, obsess over and remix their favorite storylines.” “

Mason added, “Hidden Door isn’t just about watching and reading stories – it’s about living them. Our platform gives fans the power to let their imagination and creativity design the story, adventure through the world and even grow the storyverse together – a true home for fans to immerse themselves in their favorite stories.”

Inspired by the improvisational storytelling of tabletop role-playing games, Hidden Door helps players to create new stories that expand on the original creator’s vision. Guided by an omniscient narrator, players make characters that they then take on a variety of adventures, responding to prompts to guide the action in any direction.

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In a demo, Hidden Door’s leaders showed me how it works, by working on the character description together. Her most frequent mood was “excited for the future.” And what kept Tyler, the gossip columinist up at night? I answered, “Boring news.”

Mason said you can start a scene in a townhouse, with characters sipping tea and reviewing the latest social gossip. If you get writer’s block as a fan-writer, you can get help from the platform, which can give you examples of things you might do in the form of cards. Each character, item, location in the world is a card and you collect them. You build up a deck, and then you can play with that deck, choosing which chracter to play as.

“You can see all the information about them, their current energy, their attributes, their location, anything about the location,” Mason said.

It’s a game of world building, and that world building happens by accumulating, collecting, earning and manipulating these cards, which can be the things of your world, the characters, items, locations, but also stories, said Matt Brandwein, chief product officer and cofounder of Hidden Door, in an interview with GamesBeat.

“Every time you play, you might get a completely different deck and all the things will change through play,” Mason said.

You can succeed or fail, based on the quality of the narrative that emerges. But Mason believes that you will feel like a participant in the story, as well as its author. In the case of Pride and Prejudice, the story revolves around a scandal for the gossip writer.

Completing stories unlock cards that players can copy between stories, adding a new spin to well-known fictional worlds. As players build up their collection of stories, characters and locations, they collectively shape a larger extended universe unique to them. Players can even pull cards or storylines from others’ shared worlds, building lore together within the broader fan community.

Hidden Door’s creator partnership model represents a new approach to fan engagement and IP monetization. Rather than training AI models on authors’ work, the company collaborates directly with content creators through revenue-sharing agreements that require minimal time investment—typically just a few hours.

Authors and publishers maintain creative control while gaining insights into how fans interact with their worlds, creating an additional revenue stream from existing IP. The platform serves multiple creator types, from established authors like Alan Dean Foster to romance publishers like 831 Publishing to film studios like Pressman Films, each bringing their unique worlds to life through carefully crafted adaptations that respect the original work’s integrity.

Starting today, select worlds are available to play for free at 

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