House of Tales was founded in 1998 by Tobias Schachte and Martin Ganteföhr, who had previously developed children's video games for the ZDF.
The company initially lacked a corporate office and organized in a decentralized fashion online, a rarity at the time.
[1] In 2008, House of Tales was bought by DTP Entertainment, but initially remained an independent development studio under the new parent company.
At the end of 2009, tensions arose between the House of Tales management and that of DTP regarding the future direction of the studio and the poor sales of 15 Days.
In December 2014, the Swedish publisher THQ Nordic acquired the rights to House of Tales' adventure games and made them available via digital distribution platforms.