# Shadow House

> Books

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1136368302](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1136368302)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1136368302`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Scholastic Inc.
- **Category:** Books
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (686 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.2.0
- **Last updated:** 2021-02-25
- **First published:** 2016-08-19
- **Size:** 647 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shadow-house/id1136368302)
- **Website:** [http://scholastic.com/shadowhouse](http://scholastic.com/shadowhouse)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.scholastic.com/privacy-kids.htm](http://www.scholastic.com/privacy-kids.htm)

## Description

Shadow House is an interactive, choose-your-path ghost story app from Scholastic. Step inside a haunted house that changes with every play and guide your fate through eerie visuals and chilling audio. This companion to Dan Poblocki's Shadow House series lets you trace a sigil to enter each ghost story, navigate multiple paths, and replay for a new, terrifying adventure while uncovering long-buried secrets.

The app does not collect personally identifiable information. It provides information and advertising about Scholastic's Shadow House books and links only to Scholastic-owned websites and the Apple App Store and iBooks Store. There is no social sharing or location tracking. Privacy Policy: http://shadowhouse.scholastic.com/privacypolicy.

## Rankings

- #63,322 — Overall

## Review summary

The Shadow House app is praised for its immersive lore, user-friendly interface, engaging sigil puzzles, and creepy atmosphere, which fans say enriches the book series. Recurrent drawbacks involve the No Way Out level 3 mirror puzzle being blurry/unclickable and various glitches in mirror/sigil puzzles that hinder progression, plus a sense that the game offers limited choices. A few users also wish for audio features. Overall, strong appeal for fans but needs bug fixes and some feature enhancements.

### Pros

- Immersive storytelling with backstories and lore that complement the books
- Easy-to-use app interface
- Engaging interactive puzzles and sigil mechanics
- Creepy atmosphere and strong horror vibe
- Adds value for fans by expanding the Shadow House universe

### Cons

- Third book's 'No Way Out' mirror puzzle is blurry and unclickable, blocking progress
- Mirror/sigil puzzles have glitches that prevent completion and may require an update
- Some users feel the game offers limited choices and feels more like a linear story than interactive branching
- Occasional request for audio, suggesting missing audio features

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