Achievements

95 achievements
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  1. Book of Hours 4 Aug '23

    78 base game achievements worth 56,577
    1. In the Isle's Shadow

      This achievement is hidden. I found my way through the storm to Brancrug Village.

      100 %


    2. In the Mist

      This achievement is hidden. What happens in Numa, stays in Numa. Generally.

      39.7 %


    3. The Curia of the Isle

      This achievement is hidden. I restored the rooms set aside by the Curia for the Librarian.

      26.8 %


    4. Exit Dewulf

      This achievement is hidden. I restored the sanctuary of the last Baron Dewulf.

      26.3 %


    5. The Brothers and Sisters of St Brandan's

      This achievement is hidden. I restored the Abbey Church of the Isle, all the way to its topmost spire.

      22.0 %


    6. Darkness at Noon

      This achievement is hidden. I restored the deepest chambers of the Cucurbit Prison.

      15.5 %


    7. Wicke's Waking

      This achievement is hidden. I discovered the source of the fire that ravaged Hush House.

      15.5 %


    8. The Affair of the Unfettered Eye

      This achievement is hidden. Messana: a prosperous little desert village that has become a place of pilgrimage. There have been peculiar manifestations there of late...

      13.1 %


    9. Beneath the Abbey of the Black Dove

      This achievement is hidden. I unearthed the final secret of the caves below Hush House.

      12.9 %


    10. The Affair of the Royal Endeavour

      This achievement is hidden. The New King has sanctioned the use of the Crown's wealth to fund a visionary new industrial project...

      12.6 %


    11. The Affair of the Friar's Tapestry

      This achievement is hidden. A tapestry has been stolen from the Haustorium that depicts details of a very old rite indeed...

      12.3 %


    12. The Affair of the God in the Wood

      This achievement is hidden. A faddish health camp has attracted attention after many of its clients seem to have developed sudden, sometimes upsetting, artistic abilities...

      11.8 %


    13. The Affair of the Sandalwood Saint

      This achievement is hidden. An odd little image in a church in Strasbourg has become a locus for wild claims of healing and haunting...

      11.5 %


    14. The Affair of the Threshold Revolution

      This achievement is hidden. The Légion du Seuil recruits from among the Bounds-beasts. How trustworthy is it, really?

      11.0 %


    15. The Affair of the Messenger's Casket

      This achievement is hidden. In a hidden fold of the mountains above the city of Cluj lies the enigmatic relic they call Saint Mihael's Coffin...

      10.7 %


    16. Much Is Lost... But We Abide

      This achievement is hidden. I curated a perfect display of Hush House's Librarians.

      10.7 %


    17. The Affair of 'Apollo and Marsyas'

      This achievement is hidden. An upcoming production of an opera with a very ancient pedigree indeed...

      10.4 %


    18. The Affair of the Absent Friend

      This achievement is hidden. The Ligeian Medusa is long dead. But she walks the streets of Budapest by moonlight and, for the first time, she's being glimpsed in daylight too...

      10.2 %


    19. The Affair of the Oriflamme Heist

      This achievement is hidden. Oriflamme's Auction House is never robbed. But what if it has been?

      10.2 %


    20. The Affair of the Grunewald Provision

      This achievement is hidden. The assets of Grunewald's Permanent Circus were disposed of by the Bureau. In hindsight, this was a mistake...

      9.94 %


    21. The Affair of the Unfinished Lark

      This achievement is hidden. For years a sculptor-adept laboured at his masterpiece. And now, puzzlingly and suddenly, he is dead...

      9.94 %


    22. The Affair of the Open Reverend

      This achievement is hidden. In a highly specialised clinic, specialists study the ecstatic agonies of the case known only as'the Open Reverend'...

      9.94 %


    23. Evening Falls

      This achievement is hidden. I lived out my days quietly, as the Librarian of Hush House; and I was happy.

      9.94 %


    24. The Affair of the Particular Mystique

      This achievement is hidden. The Suppression Bureau has a growing interest in the recent fad for unconventional - often prophetic - religious movements...

      9.67 %


    25. The Affair of the Dappled Rose

      This achievement is hidden. Another man has died in the desert. He raved to the end about gardens, with a flower crushed in his hand...

      9.40 %


    26. The Affair of the Other Horizon

      This achievement is hidden. Sailors have a term for the compass-whirl phenomenon which occurs before sightings of the city Ys...

      9.40 %


    27. The Affair of the Invisible Opera

      This achievement is hidden. No-one has ever successfully staged an entire performance of 'Wings Within Wings'. But now someone is trying again...

      9.40 %


    28. The Affair of the Second Skin

      This achievement is hidden. The labhite Abecassis has begun a dramatic and dangerous metamorphosis...

      9.13 %


    29. The Affair of the Rising While

      This achievement is hidden. A self-styled oracle preaches 'the truth of nearly now' to her followers. She camps by the Temple of Seven Coils, and hasn't been eaten...

      9.13 %


    30. The Affair of the Endless Guest

      This achievement is hidden. An 'inhabitation of Worms' is never to be taken lightly...

      8.87 %


    31. The Affair of the Forgivable Debt

      This achievement is hidden. Two Reckoner mobs have gone to war in the unremarkable Lithuanian city of Kaunas. Why? What's in Kaunas?

      8.60 %


    32. The Affair of the Claw and the Clouds

      This achievement is hidden. From the far monastery of St Tentreto, we hear stories of unexpected visitors - visitors from behind the sky...

      7.25 %


    33. Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound

      This achievement is hidden. I drowned my book.

      5.91 %


    34. Numen: That Old Lost Music

      This achievement is hidden. Every song ever sung still lingers in wind and echo, untouched by the demands of Eternity…

      3.49 %


    35. Material Happiness

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Sun card.

      3.22 %


    36. Numen: Inescapable Confinement

      This achievement is hidden. There's only one place you're safe from Eternity and History, and it's not a place anyone would want to be...

      3.22 %


    37. Compromise & Adaptation

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Temperance card.

      3.22 %


    38. Naming the Shadow

      This achievement is hidden. I have faced my Crime and the Curse it freed. At last, I am whole.

      3.22 %


    39. Destiny

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Wheel of Fortune card.

      2.95 %


    40. Ends & Mortality

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Death card.

      2.95 %


    41. Numen: the Paths of the Sun

      This achievement is hidden. The Sun has charted his Paths - paths beyond walls and woods and Bounds. When we are ready, all of us will enter Eternity...

      2.95 %


    42. Numen: a Merciless Alteration

      This achievement is hidden. The fundamental flaw; the irresistible shortcut; the hate that heats; the change that mars; the scar that opens...

      2.68 %


    43. That Which Is Predestined

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Devil card.

      2.68 %


    44. Mastery: Nyctodromy

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of the ways and byways of the transmundane.

      2.68 %


    45. Numen: Back into Balance

      This achievement is hidden. When the travelling Carapace-kinds passed beyond the wave and the sky, they made arrangements for their return...

      2.68 %


    46. Mastery: Illumination

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of purification of the self and its surroundings.

      2.41 %


    47. The Songs of Caer Adar

      This achievement is hidden. I eavesdropped on the Aviform Hours and live, still, to sing their songs.

      2.41 %


    48. Numen: the Great Counterfeit

      This achievement is hidden. The Sun-in-Splendour and the Forge of the Days could not be joined. But Sunset Celia and the Swan King could...

      2.15 %


    49. Mastery: Bosk

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of the primaeval wood.

      2.15 %


    50. Mastery: Skolekosophy

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of things that should not be studied.

      2.15 %


    51. Summons & Rebirth

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Judgement card.

      2.15 %


    52. Numen: The Sun's Weakness

      This achievement is hidden. The Sun's sins and the Sun's scars are our salvation. There are Histories where they will trap us...

      2.15 %


    53. Mastery: Birdsong

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of music, riddles and miscellanea.

      2.15 %


    54. Numen: an Irresistible Feast

      This achievement is hidden. Hunger made Worms of Dragons. But without the savour-secret of the Carapace, their hunger would not have been sufficient...

      2.15 %


    55. Occult Forces

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Moon card.

      2.15 %


    56. Hope & Prospects

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Star card.

      2.15 %


    57. Numen: Loopholes

      This achievement is hidden. When Eternity came into the world, certain prudent powers arranged loopholes. Those loopholes may open again...

      2.15 %


    58. Mastery: Horomachistry

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of the laws (and disagreements) of the Hours.

      1.88 %


    59. Mastery: Hushery

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of silence and its sundering.

      1.88 %


    60. Numen: the Bells of Ys

      This achievement is hidden. Ys, by her arts, found the strike-tone that shakes the Hours. A bell cast with this secret could speak the Ys-note…

      1.88 %


    61. Mastery: Preservation

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of healing and restoration.

      1.88 %


    62. CATASTROPHE

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Tower card.

      1.88 %


    63. A Knowledge In The Look Of Things

      This achievement is hidden. I followed in the footsteps of Solomon Husher.

      1.88 %


    64. Numen: Weaving the World

      This achievement is hidden. The Histories, they say, are braided like hair - or tangled like roots. What is the shape of that knot...?

      1.88 %


    65. Map of the Empire

      This achievement is hidden. I plumbed the depths. I plotted the impossible. I completed my masterwork, and mastered the Mansus itself.

      1.88 %


    66. The Unknown

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Empress card.

      1.88 %


    67. Vigilance & Treason

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Hermit card.

      1.88 %


    68. Mastery: Ithastry

      This achievement is hidden. I mastered the Wisdom of alchemy, metallurgy and pyrotechnics.

      1.61 %


    69. Perfectly Monstrous

      This achievement is hidden. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. I went and read and mastered all.

      1.61 %


    70. Numen: A Final Understanding

      This achievement is hidden. Eternity and History cannot be reconciled. Freedom cannot be perfection - not unless we understand the paradox of the eternal ending...

      1.61 %


    71. Folly & Mania

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the Fool card.

      1.61 %


    72. Numen: Three Rules

      This achievement is hidden. If we know those deepest rules, we know what even the Chancel and the Calyptra may not do...

      1.61 %


    73. Assured Success

      This achievement is hidden. I unlocked the World card.

      1.34 %


    74. Look on my Works, Ye Mighty

      This achievement is hidden. I spoke the name 'Calyptra' and lived. I won the last revolution, and I am free.

      1.34 %


    75. Apology Accepted

      This achievement is hidden. They had hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions. I know that now. I made, at last, amends.

      1.34 %


    76. A Third Way

      This achievement is hidden. I walked beneath the Sun, and I walked within the flesh. At last I found my final home.

      1.07 %


    77. Les Neiges D'Antan

      This achievement is hidden. Neither rags nor riches soothed my soul. But at last I found peace in Hush House.

      0.806 %


    78. A Reckoning Postponed Indefinitely

      This achievement is hidden. I was hunted. I was afraid. But now I am safe, and prepared.

      0.537 %


  2. Book of Hours — Update #1 23 Sep '24

    17 additional achievements worth 6,663
    1. The Last Homely House

      This achievement is hidden. I wrote an Invitation to a Visitor.

      31.2 %


    2. Hot Ice Creams For Cold Days

      This achievement is hidden. I hosted guests for a picnic.

      14.5 %


    3. Stress Cannot Exist In The Presence Of A Pie

      This achievement is hidden. I hosted guests for luncheon.

      10.4 %


    4. Food And Cheer And Song

      This achievement is hidden. I hosted guests for supper.

      10.4 %


    5. Second Breakfast

      This achievement is hidden. I hosted guests for elevenses.

      8.33 %


    6. I Am Particularly Fond Of Muffins

      This achievement is hidden. I hosted guests for afternoon tea.

      8.33 %


    7. Books Are The Memory That Does Not Die

      This achievement is hidden. I wrote an original Manuscript.

      6.25 %


    8. Across The Wake They Come

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute, with an uncertain course through the world.

      6.25 %


    9. Every Cliff A Fortress

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission of mortal self-sufficiency.

      4.16 %


    10. The World's Lost

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission to honour what's left of the gods-from-stone.

      2.08 %


    11. Silence After Lightning

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission to sustain peace.

      0 %


    12. Lamp Above, Rocks Below

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission of occult revelation

      0 %


    13. No Sharper In The Dark

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission of occult secrecy.

      0 %


    14. Every Flame Has Its Fuel

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission of advancing the creation of better Hours.

      0 %


    15. Only Twins Drown Twice

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission of strength through conflict.

      0 %


    16. Many Pebbles, One Beach

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a mission to make use of what's left of the gods-from-stone.

      0 %


    17. Hush House Endures

      This achievement is hidden. I founded the Lighthouse Institute with a murky mission of self-advancement.

      0 %


Description

Restore a crumbling occult library by a winter sea. Build the world’s foremost collection of grimoires and arcana. Master the invisible arts. BOOK OF HOURS is a narrative crafting RPG set in a 1930s world of hidden gods and secret histories. What sort of Librarian will you choose to be?

Reviews
Very Positive
SteamDB Rating
87.12%
Release Date
Steam Deck Compatibility
Playable

Tags

RPG 238 votes
Card Game 234 votes
Exploration 225 votes
Deckbuilding 225 votes
Time Management 213 votes
CRPG 210 votes
Lore-Rich 207 votes
Tabletop 206 votes
Simulation 205 votes
Strategy 204 votes
Resource Management 202 votes
2D 201 votes
Crafting 195 votes
Historical 195 votes
Strategy RPG 185 votes
Relaxing 178 votes
Choices Matter 164 votes
Management 160 votes
Life Sim 159 votes
Narration 156 votes
RPG 63,241 points
Card Game 60,079 points
Exploration 56,917 points
Deckbuilding 53,755 points
Time Management 50,593 points
CRPG 47,431 points
Lore-Rich 44,269 points
Tabletop 41,107 points
Simulation 37,945 points
Strategy 34,782 points
Resource Management 31,620 points
2D 28,458 points
Crafting 25,296 points
Historical 22,134 points
Strategy RPG 18,972 points
Relaxing 15,810 points
Choices Matter 12,648 points
Management 9,486 points
Life Sim 6,324 points
Narration 3,162 points

Type

Game

Features

Single-player
Steam Achievements
Steam Trading Cards
Steam Cloud
Family Sharing

Developer

Weather Factory 13

Publisher

Weather Factory 12

Franchise

Secret Histories 5