Something in the Rows

Something is moving through the corn. Find the wards before it finds you.

In 1934, with the crops dead and the bank at the door, Thomas Halloway walked into his dying fields and struck a bargain with something tall and thin that came out of the rows. The rain returned. The harvests never failed again. The price was his family.

October 2016. You slip into the Halloway Farms corn maze after dark. At 12:13 the light in the mansion's spire goes out, a bell rings three times, and every clock on the farm stops. The last Halloway named in that bargain has just died, and whatever Thomas dealt with is free. The gate has locked behind you.

Recover the eight wards

For decades, eight wards kept it in the rows. Now they're scattered across the farm: the farmhouse, the grain bins, the windmill's cistern, the caves beneath the old well, the scarecrow field, the bottle tree, a field altar and the family graveyard. Each one is guarded by a puzzle or a ritual, and every ward you take makes the hunt more dangerous.

Make them whole

Some wards come back broken. The puzzles that mend them wait behind sealed doors in the Halloway mansion: more than seventy rooms of hidden passages, locked studies and things that hunt between the walls. The gate stays chained until every ward is whole, and when it finally opens, the Gleaner comes for you all the way out.

Survive the Gleaner

You have no weapons. Your lantern can fail and your stamina runs out. The Gleaner stalks you through the rows, listening for your footsteps and, in co-op, your voice, and a lit lantern carries a long way across the field. Hide in the shrines along the paths, in a wardrobe or in the barn, and choose your moment to run.

The Halloways never left

Dig the wrong grave and a Halloway rises to hunt you. The dead walk the farmhouse and the mansion too. A talking board answers when you ask it questions, and some things in that house only show themselves in the right light.

Face the farm together

Play solo or online with up to three friends, with proximity voice chat. Split up to cover more ground, or stay close and watch each other's backs. Go down and you wake up in a coffin, ringing its bell until someone digs you out. And in co-op, not everything that looks like your friend is your friend.

A different night every time

The corn maze is generated fresh every run. Which wards come back broken, where their puzzle rooms land in the mansion, and the puzzles that guard them change from night to night. And there's more than one way to finish this story.

What's in the game

• Eight wards to recover across the maze, the farm and the graveyard
  
• A mansion of more than seventy rooms, with hidden passages and puzzle rooms that move every run
  
• More than a dozen puzzles and rituals
  
• The Gleaner, five Halloway ghosts and a few other residents of the house
  
• A UV torch, salt, hiding places and a handful of rare items that can turn a bad moment around
  
• Single-player and online co-op for up to four players
  
• Multiple endings

From the developers

Something in the Rows is made by a two-person team at Distorted Games Studio. It's a complete game at launch, and we'll keep improving it with your feedback after release.