House of Ashes is the third game in the The Dark Pictures Anthology series - standalone, cinematic branching horror games where the decisions you make in the game determine the story you receive Iraq, 2003: As the conflict draws to a close, CIA field operative Rachel King joins an elite military unit on a raid of a suspected underground chemical weapons facility in the shadow of the Zagros Mountains In the darkness beneath the Arabian Desert, something evil is awakened - Savage and unstoppable, a nest of ancient and unearthly creatures has a new prey to hunt