Mythos: The Beginning

Mythos: The Beginning is a survival horror role-playing game inspired by 1930s pulp horror and monster movies. In London in 1934, you create a paranormal investigator and explore the infamous Harborough Asylum to find three university students who vanished while conducting a scientific survey. As the night unfolds, you discover the asylum’s reputation is more than an urban legend and face otherworldly Lovecraftian foes.

Create your investigator

Build your character by choosing their gender, background and profession, then role-play them through the story. Character advancement uses a pen-and-paper RPG-inspired system: there are no levels, and you spend EXP directly on stats and skill increases.

Investigate and survive

The game combines survival horror with tabletop-style role-playing, including dialogue trees, non-combat skills and dice rolls. You can fight enemies or avoid combat, gaining EXP by using skills such as Persuade and Occult Lore. Meaningful choices shape a Gothic horror story with multiple endings.

Director’s Cut content

The Director’s Cut includes overhauled and rebalanced mechanics, additional skill checks and more ways to progress. It also adds new and rewritten dialogue, rooms with new items and scares, and the Edge of Madness expansion integrated into the base game.