Accessibility Settings
If you're not the kind of person who goes through the settings before booting up the story, you may not realize that there are accessibility settings you can activate to make it a smoother experience. Accessibility settings aren't just for players with a disability (though it's a godsend for those that do); they're just a great way to make the game more suited to your playstyle. We at TheGamer actually had a chance to speak with Supermassive about accessibility in the horror genre.
As a horror game, it's no surprise that there are lots of button prompts in House of Ashes. Several of the accessibility settings relate to the difficulty or activation of these button prompts/quick-time events. For example, the normal quick-time events might ask you to hit different buttons at different times. One accessibility setting makes them all the same button.