I just completed my blind playthrough of House of Ashes...

I absolutely love the game, now, I have no clue, but I really liked Joey, i'm not sure if his death was inevitable or not.

This game also had THREE major life or death events, kinda like one in Until Dawn, where there are wendigos in the lodge, except this game had three of those. The one in the main area of the temple where the crew and Iraqi soldiers fight off the vampires/whatever those things are, second is the one with explosives and the third is the eclipse. In my playthrough, only Eric, Nick, Jason and Salim survived. Joey, Clarice, Rachel, Dar, and Merwin (died because I fucking choked him) all died.

I gotta say, Salim is definitely my favourite character, whenever I had the chance, I always helped him, even when the vampires were surrounding him, I chose to save him. The heart-beat QTEs are REALLY hard, since I chose to go further and not retreat as Nick, I had A LOT of those, I was sweating the whole time, but somehow got them all right. It's kinda crazy, they don't give you that mechanic whole game, but then when it's really make or break, they just put it on your screen.

Also idk if this is important but my Rachel chose Eric over Nick, which I agree on. So W for me.

So in conclusion, I really fucking love this game, I'm not sure if it's good as Until Dawn (that game is absolutely incredible, don't think any other game will EVER reach its level), but it's still a very good horror game, unlike Man of Medan, which just had horrible plot for me, as I figured it out on half the game and predicted everything else so it wasn't scary. Huge positive feedback for this game, anyone wanting to try should definitely do so.

TLDR:

Alive: Eric, Nick, Jason, Salim

Deceased: Joey, Clarice, Rachel, Dar and Merwin