Yog-Sothoth's Yard

Yog-Sothoth's Yard is a management game about inheriting a long-abandoned villa burdened with dark debts and turning it into a hotel. You hire unusual employees, serve strange guests and build wealth through activities including mining, adventuring, alchemy and restaurant management. Your decisions shape the fate of the world, influence whether staff fall for you and lead to up to 23 different endings.

Run the hotel

You can renovate the dilapidated villa into a luxurious hotel with multiple rooms, including exclusive rooms for your core employees. Guests arrive with mysterious events, and you can pursue different business strategies to complete the game. Managing food lets you use materials and earn money; helping guests in the yard can reward you with recipes from around the world.

Develop the grounds

An expansive forest beyond the hotel can provide ingredients for the restaurant when developed. You can explore it in cat form, while mining the cave and clearing the forest help you gather resources. Pay attention to guests in the yard and listen to their Oracles: their predictions can grant extraordinary powers, but consulting them may lower your sanity.

Food and alchemy

Restaurant management uses ingredients gathered from the grounds. An auto-listing feature lets a chef sell food, while you explore the forest to supply ingredients. Alchemy uses animals, plants, foreign spices and minerals in specific containers, with the flame kept at the right temperature.

You can work with Yevna the Dragon Alchemist, improve your alchemy skill to increase the workshop's output and collect formulas for items that help preserve your sanity. At the highest level of mastery, you can craft transcendent items such as the Philosopher's Stone.

Your employees

You can hire a varied staff, including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter and a bioroid maid. The Spirit Hunter prefers cooking to swordsmanship, and the Dragon Alchemist can turn against you if you surpass her skill. Trainee Death says she must repay 9999 ounces of high-purity souls to the Death Tower and wields a scythe; you can turn the “Slaughter” option on or off.

The hotel also has unique NPCs of different races, appearances and personalities, each with a story to discover.