One of last year's quietest success stories is finally leaving the PC. Raw Fury and Dublin-based developer Spooky Doorway have confirmed that The Séance of Blake Manor arrives on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Nintendo Switch 2 on October 27, 2026 - exactly one year to the day after the Steam release.
That anniversary timing is not an accident, and it is a reasonable flex. The PC version currently sits at Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam, with 3,648 of 3,830 user reviews positive. That is a 95% positive rate on a detective game with no combat, no action set pieces and no obvious hook for the algorithm - which is roughly the hardest way to earn a score like that.
1897, a remote Irish hotel, and one missing woman
You play Private Investigator Declan Ward, hired to find Evelyn Deane, who has disappeared from a remote hotel in 1897 Ireland. The building is full of guests who have all turned up for a séance, and every one of them has a reason to be there that they would rather not explain.
The core loop is interviewing and interrogating that cast, recording what you learn in Declan's journal, and cross-referencing your own notes until the picture resolves. It is closer in spirit to Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol than to a point-and-click adventure: the game does not gate you behind an inventory puzzle, it gates you behind whether you have actually understood what people told you.
The supernatural is a suspect, not a get-out
The "other-worldly occurrences" in the pitch are the part that makes the game harder to describe and better to play. Blake Manor is not a haunted house in the jump-scare sense; the supernatural material sits alongside the human motives as another set of evidence you have to weigh and, crucially, another set of explanations that might be a lie someone is hiding behind.
Spooky Doorway's hand-drawn, heavily inked art style does a lot of work here. Everything in the manor is rendered in flat, saturated colour with thick outlines, which keeps the game legible when you are scanning a room for detail and stops the ghost material from tipping into cheap horror imagery.
Switch 2 is the version to watch
Of the three console targets, the Switch 2 version is the most interesting proposition. A slow, text-heavy investigation game where the primary verb is "read carefully and take notes" is close to an ideal handheld fit, and it is a genre the platform has historically done very well with - the Ace Attorney and Danganronpa collections did not end up on Nintendo hardware by accident.
The Xbox release is also going straight onto Game Pass, which for a game like this matters disproportionately. Detective games live or die on word of mouth, and the biggest obstacle for a 2025 indie mystery is not price - it is that most people never hear it exists.
A good date, and a crowded one
October 27 puts Blake Manor in the Halloween window, which is obviously the point, and directly against a console release calendar that gets very busy from late October onward. But this is not a game competing for the same evening as a big-budget shooter. It is a game you play in ninety-minute sittings with a notebook next to you, and those are exactly the games that survive a crowded quarter by simply refusing to go away.
The PC version is available now on Steam. The console versions land on October 27, 2026.
