The studio Team Junkfish announced Wilderdark — a first-person stealth horror with survival elements. The release is planned for this year; on May 7 the team says a demo will go live (hoping for fewer spoilers than screams).
We kept Wilderdark a secret for over three years — odd, really, to hide something that kept changing shape as we worked on it. It’s been a slow, closed-door process: bits refined, scares cut and stitched back in. Now we want people to experience the kind of horror some of our fans asked for; the demo is only a taste, not the full appetite. Drop by next week and see what was hiding in the dark.
The game is set on a strange island where an ecosystem has been taken over by ectoparasites that commandeer dinosaurs and even plants (i.e., lifeforms behave wrong). Your character arrives on a mission from an org. searching for a route to immortality — tasked with studying the area, collecting samples, and tracing the fate of earlier teams, including the expedition that involved his parents. That personal thread keeps the tension from feeling purely academic.
You start with almost nothing; survival hinges on being careful rather than charging in. Stealth matters, exploration matters — and you’ll need to manage scarce supplies while documenting finds (e.g., photographing specimens) and crafting whatever tools you can cobble together. Make a mistake and predators near the top of the food chain will make you regret it. The parasites are a wildcard: poorly understood, unpredictable, and likely to turn a routine encounter into something unnerving. The devs promise a steady sense of danger rather than cheap jump scares.
You can play Wilderdark on PC via Steam. Text translation to Russian is available.