ID@Xbox IGN Showcase showcased the upcoming digging-based co-op adventure. The game will be dug out on XBOX Game Pass, XBOX Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and XBOX on PC.

Darmstadt, Germany – 20th October, 2026. Pick a spot and go viral digging with friends this December! Indie publisher rokaplay and indie developer Mipumi Games have just announced the release date of their upcoming game A Game About Digging A Hole Together at ID@Xbox IGN Showcase. The cooperative digging-adventure lets up to four players delve into the depths of their now improved garden.

This leaves one question to be answered: What can they expect once they reach the bottom?

Players will find out on December 4th, when the game releases on PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and XBOX on PC, as well as for PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. A Game About Digging A Hole Together will also be available on the XBOX Game Pass.

Here’s the brand-new trailer from ID@Xbox IGN Showcase

What once started as a side-project by a single developer, escalated to a Steam charts topping viral hit. A Game About Digging a Hole reached the top 30 on the Steam charts, selling over a million copies.

A Game About Digging A Hole Together retains the simple, addictive gameplay and gives players exactly what they want: MORE. More depth, more terrain, more tools, more secrets, more to discover, and above all, more players (though you’ll have to bring your own friends)! The core mechanics are easy to (re)learn: dig, sell, upgrade, and keep digging – but they’ve all been improved from the ground up. Over the past few months, Mipumi Games has rebuilt the game’s entire code, making it run more smoothly and reliably. The experienced Vienna-based studio has previously worked on titles such as Alan Wake 2, CONTROL, HITMAN, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

This is A Game About Digging A Hole Together:

• A Small Project with a Huge Impact – The original was created in just a few weeks by a single developer and is now being further developed by him and the entire team. The developer, Mipumi Games, has extensive experience in both indie and AAA gaming, which now underpins the game’s development.
• Born from Solarpunk technology – The digging and voxel technologies originated in an early version of the hit game Solarpunk and have now found their true calling in this title.
• Learned from the community – Following the surprise success, reviews, comments, and requests from the community were carefully studied and analyzed. Naturally, the feedback was directly incorporated into the new title!
• Teamwork makes the dreamwork – Ever since we were kids on the playground, digging together has been a fantastic experience—and now we’re taking it deeper, online and across platforms.

A Game About Digging A Hole™ Together is coming to PC on Steam, the Epic Games Store and XBOX on PC, PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. The game will be available on XBOX Game Pass. For more information, visit rokaplay’s social media channels on Discord, X, YouTube, as well as their Community Newsletter and Facebook.

– Enjoy outrageous sci-fi weapons, squad-based mayhem, and hyper-customization –

Developer Pigeons at Play and publisher Devolver Digital have announced that sci-fi co-op shooter Mycopunk has achieved maximum escape velocity, broken free from Early Access, and surged into 1.0. The game is available now on PC and PlayStation 5 priced at €14.99.

Mycopunk made its Early Access debut in July last year and introduced its customizable squad-based shooting action, wicked sense of humor, and wild sci-fi universe to the world. Now, after heaps of game-changing updates, this fungus-blasting shooter has hit 1.0 with a bunch of new stuff – and is making its debut on PlayStation 5.

A mysterious fungal threat is ravaging the surface of New Atlas, and you’re part of the clean-up crew. Squad up, equip the latest advanced combat tech, and travel to the surface of the moon to drive this mysterious mycological menace back from whence it came.

Choose from an outrageous arsenal of advanced futuristic weaponry, then supercharge them in a one-of-a-kind grid-based upgrade system to create the ridiculous sci-fi super-weapon of your dreams. Hordes of enemies are waiting to be slaughtered, but watch out! Other enemies can grab their blasted-off bits ‘n’ pieces to grow bigger and stronger.

Work together with your team, combining upgraded abilities and customized weapons to create synergistic builds and achieve strategic co-op mayhem. Then let off steam between missions in the H.U.B., an orbital dropship stuffed with toys, games, and secrets.

The 1.0 release of Mycopunk features a heap of new content, including guns, grenades, modes, maps, a whole new character, and best of all, WEARABLE HATS.

Mycopunk is available now on PC and PlayStation 5. For PS5 players, the game will also be available via PlayStation Plus Extra/Premium.

Welcome to a dystopian cyberpunk future infused with Chinese mythology. A world populated by machine-distorted, ancient creatures. Where individuals like yourself have access to all sorts of weapons, chips, augments, and yet are foredoomed.

October 20, Singapore. Dare to change your destiny. Embark on a journey to freedom while carving a bloody path to victory. Try to break The Death Spiral and unravel the truth hidden in this disturbing world.

Download the free demo, available for the first time ever directly from Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3489340/ReBlade_The_Death_Spiral/). The demo will remain available not only during Steam Next Fest starting on October 19, but you’ll also be able to enjoy it up until November 10!

ABOUT REBLADE: THE DEATH SPIRAL

In ReBlade: The Death Spiral, you are trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Fight your way through a futuristic city and uncover the truth behind the cycle as you search for a way to break free.

REBLADE: THE DEATH SPIRAL – MAIN FEATURES

• Explore a Stylish Cyberpunk World – fight your way out from the dark underground into a sprawling neon-lit city, with polished environments and fluid animations bringing the world to life.
• Play as a Condemned Synthetic – play as a stylishly designed heroine, with different outfits to unlock along the way.
• Hard-Hitting Combat – face deadly mechanical beasts inspired by Chinese mythology, learn their movesets, time your parries, and break their guard to unleash powerful attacks.
• Shape Your Build – experiment with weapons, skills, chips, and augments to create powerful combinations and discover new ways to fight with each run.

ReBlade: The Death Spiral is being developed by ChillyRoom and will be published on Steam by Spiral Up Games.

About ChillyRoom

ChillyRoom is based in Shenzhen, China. They are a team of talented, creative indie developers. Known for their roguelike dungeon crawlers such as Soul Knight and Otherworld Legends, they are continuously developing games in different genres with a single purpose – to bring fun and joy.

About Spiral Up Games

Spiral Up Games is an international game publisher for high-quality PC indie games, headquartered in Singapore. Its team members comprise experienced game veterans with decades of experience in indie game development and marketing. Their mission is to find hidden gems of the indie market and polish them into shining diamonds so that they can be enjoyed and celebrated by gamers worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.spiralupgames.com. 

Leamington Spa, UK – October 20, 2026: Cosy city builder Town to City is getting a free update on Tuesday, October 27, introducing new ways for players to customise and expand their cities.The update adds modular mansion and palace building sets, giving players greater freedom to design their dream city. Each set features recolourable foundations, walls, and roofs, alongside a variety of windows, doors, balconies, and decorative elements.

Upgraded roads have also been reworked, allowing players to paint them directly onto their cities. Three new road textures have been added: Vibrant Plaza, Sandstone, and Cobblestone. Additionally, improvements to the gizmo tool allow customised objects to remain attached to their surfaces and retain their modifications when moved or duplicated.

Developed by Dutch independent studio Galaxy Grove, Town to City launched in Early Access in September 2025 and currently holds an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam. Since launch, the game has continued to grow with new features, including animals, a first-person Free Walk mode, terraforming, bridges, and more.

Check out the Steam page

About Town to City

Break free of the grid in Town to City: a cozy city builder that invites you to create a beautiful and bustling community.

Freely place houses, shops, amenities and natural elements to delight your residents and encourage new families to move in. As your population grows, so can your ambitions: create multiple towns that can grow alone or thrive together, helping the whole region develop and prosper.

In story or sandbox mode, you’re free to build at your own pace, placing each flower bed with pixel precision, or prioritise growing your economy and developing your town into a thriving city.

Shape Your City

Truly grid-less building sets you free to lay out your town however you like. Plan out carefully ordered rows of houses and city districts, or grow outwards organically with residences, amenities, parks and plazas connected by winding streets and alleys. Freely shape the land beneath your feet with terraforming tools for elevation, water, and terrain.

Unleash Your Creativity

Beautify your settlement to your heart’s content with a plethora of customisation options. Set up lighting, plant flowers and wooded parks, and decorate houses and buildings to complement or contrast. Choose pre-made houses and buildings or construct your own out of modular parts. With gorgeous voxel graphics as a base and plenty of tools for fine-tuning, it’s easy to create something beautiful that you’ll want to capture with the in-game photo mode or stroll through in first-person view.

Nurture Your Community

As your town flourishes, you’ll need to meet the needs of your growing population. Provide amenities that will cater for everyone – from workers to artisans and the bourgeoisie – alongside specific requests by individual residents. Get to know each person as they arrive in town, and watch them settle down to form new families in the homes you built for them with pets and livestock by their side.

Grow Your Economy

Assign workers to jobs, research new buildings and decorations, and boost your sleepy settlement into a bustling centre of commerce. As you expand beyond the bounds of your first town, you’ll pursue new developments in farming and tourism by building new towns, all connected by trade and travel routes.

Key Features

• Truly grid-less city building
• Full campaign and sandbox modes
• Land and water terraforming
• Rich customisation, with hundreds of decorations and detailed placement tools
• Photo and first-person modes
• Multiple towns with agriculture and tourism links
• Town and citizen management views
• Research trees for buildings, technology, and decorations
• Pets and livestock
• Beautiful voxel art style
• Relaxing soundtrack by Paul Aubry

About Kwalee

Kwalee is a multi-award-winning games publisher and developer based in Leamington Spa, UK. The company has built a growing catalogue of PC and console titles, including Wildmender, ROBOBEAT, Voidwrought, In Sink, Hordes of Hunger, The Precinct, Town to City, Don’t Stop, Girlypop!, Grime II, Modulus: Factory Automation, Rune Dice, Call of the Elder Gods, Ground Zero, Shift at Midnight, SPRAWL zero, Welcome to Elderfield, lily’s World XD and RetroSpace as well as upcoming titles including Hark the Ghoul, BPM Bitcrushed, Steam to Electric, Vampire: The Masquerade — ETERNAL WHISPERS, Ballistic.exe, Dandelion Void  and more.

Founded by games industry icon and Codemasters co-founder, David Darling CBE, Kwalee is supported by a global team of games experts, with studios in the UK, India, and remote locations worldwide. The company is actively seeking high-quality games to publish across all platforms and invites developers to get in touch.

Officially recognised as ‘Best Publisher’ at the TIGA Awards 2022, Kwalee is also a committed industry advocate, serving as an ambassador for the non-profit organisation Women in Games and regularly supporting charities such as Safe In Our World, GamesAid, and SpecialEffect. 

About Galaxy Grove 

Galaxy Grove, a game studio based in Utrecht, Netherlands, was founded by Joost van Dongen, an award-winning veteran of the gaming industry. Joost has an impressive portfolio, having contributed to titles such as Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers, Blightbound, Robo Maestro, Proun, Cello Fortress, and De Blob. With a dedicated team of 26, Galaxy Grove focuses on creating games with captivating atmospheres, striking visuals, and innovative, intuitive gameplay. Their previous titles, Station to Station and Town to City, have received widespread acclaim from both critics and players, with Town to City currently sitting at an impressive 97% positive reviews on Steam. The team is currently working on its recently announced title, Steam to Electric.

Year 5 Pass owners on consoles and PC can take on three new maps, two new vehicles and more snowy challenges

PARIS – Oct. 20, 2026 – Focus Entertainment and Saber Interactive are excited to celebrate the launch of SnowRunner’s newest update, Season 19: Research & Restore! Available now for all Year 5 Pass owners onPlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, Season 19 goes back to the game’s winter roots with a brand-new season in Switzerland!

Welcome to Switzerland, SnowRunner’s newest winter region!

Help guide the locals to the next major scientific breakthrough by assisting in the renovation of a space observatory. The early winter has been particularly harsh on this picturesque canton and help is welcome pretty much anywhere! Fix an old viaduct, secure roads from the threat of avalanches, and help a hot-air balloon festival take to the skies.

Season 19 features three expansive maps, as well as two exciting new trucks to help you tackle them! The Wortek 250T is a versatile Heavy-class truck with a huge selection of add-ons and one of the largest fuel tanks in the game, while the 8×8 Derry Savior shines with its three steering axles, adding superior maneuverability to its already-impressive pulling power.

Season 19: Research & Restore is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC for all Year 5 Pass owners.

Explore Nikola Tesla’s abandoned Wardenclyffe facility in this enigmatic puzzle adventure now optimised for touchscreen devices.

Bratislava, Slovakia, October 20, 2026 – Developer and publisher Blue Brain Games is excited to announce that The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition is out now on iOS and Android. Priced at $6.99 / €6.99 / £6.99, the Definitive Edition brings the Tesla-inspired puzzle adventure to mobile devices for the first time, with touchscreen controls optimised for the experience. Available on Google Play, and a single purchase on the App Store gives players access to the game across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

The House of Tesla: Definitive Edition is a puzzle adventure set in Nikola Tesla’s abandoned Wardenclyffe facility. Across five chapters inspired by real places and Tesla’s plans, players explore deserted rooms, trace the remains of his wireless electricity experiments, and piece together what happened. A handheld prototype lets them see and influence the flow of electricity, opening new paths and revealing puzzles hidden among the facility’s machines.

To make progress, players must study the machinery, experiment with electrical systems, and use the prototype to uncover the secrets left behind at Wardenclyffe.

Key Features

• Experience the world of one of the most famous inventors, Nikola Tesla.
• Use a device that allows you to see and influence the flow of electricity.
• Challenge your brain’s gray (or blue) matter, with new puzzles. 
• Explore the hauntingly beautiful detail of the Wardenclyffe facility.
• A mysterious story from our take on Progressive Era America. 
• Play the definitive puzzle adventure now optimised for touch. 

About Blue Brain Games

Blue Brain Games is an indie game developer and publisher based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Best known for the globally acclaimed The House of Da Vinci series, we craft puzzle adventures where history, storytelling, and imagination blend seamlessly. Since 2016, our titles have been enjoyed by more than 5 million players across PC, mobile, and consoles. 

The toys are loose. Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, CatNap, and more invade Melon Sandbox on October 23, just in time for Halloween!

LIMASSOL, CYPRUS, 20th October 2026 | Mobile publisher PlayDucky is thrilled to announce a monstrous new collaboration for its ragdoll physics phenomenon, Melon Sandbox. Teaming up with Mob Entertainment, developer of the mascot horror phenomenon Poppy Playtime, PlayDucky is bringing the series’ most terrifying toys to life in a limited-time Halloween event.

From October 23 to November 2, players can come face to face with their favorite Poppy Playtime mascots in a spine-tingling themed board game event, with the scares peaking on Halloween night. Melon Sandbox is free to play on iOS, Android, and browser.

A Match Made in Hell: Poppy Playtime Creeps Into Melon Sandbox for Halloween

Playtime is over, and the horror has only just begun. Timed to the spookiest week of the year, the crossover invites players to choose from fan-favorite mascots including Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, The Prototype, Boxy Boo, and more, then let the terror loose in a board game event packed with exclusive in-game rewards. Whether players are carving pumpkins offline or hunting for jump scares online, this Halloween, the toys are coming out to play.

It’s a crossover that feels almost inevitable. Creating bizarre, unsettling, and downright horrifying creations has always been at the heart of Melon Sandbox, where a global community of 150 million players—driven largely by Gen Z and Gen Alpha creators—continues to push the limits of imagination.

That love for experimentation, chaos, and the unexpected makes Poppy Playtime a natural fit for the Melon Sandbox universe. Now, PlayDucky is bringing the two worlds together in an official collaboration that taps into what both communities love most: creativity with a darker, more unpredictable edge—just in time for the season of scares.

We’re thrilled to welcome the Poppy Playtime characters into Melon Sandbox. Our players love experimenting, building and creating their own stories, and giving them the chance to do that with such iconic characters opens up a whole new world of possibilities. We can’t wait to see the creativity our community brings to this collaboration! – Ivan Fedyanin, Founder of PlayDucky

Horror is one of Melon Sandbox‘s most popular genres for community-generated content. PlayDucky reviews thousands of mods every day for the game’s UGC storefront, the Workshop, which now hosts more than 100,000 original works. Pair a passionate fanbase with the limitless creative potential of the Workshop, and you get an eerily perfect fit.

We’re very excited to be partnering with PlayDucky and Melon Sandbox on an extension of the Poppy Playtime characters into a new experience. Poppy fans have a deeper connection with the characters outside of just the Chapter games, so finding new ways for players to interact with them is part of our ongoing efforts. We’re excited to see what gets created! – Ara Josefsson, Director of Publishing at Mob Entertainment

Join the Nightmare This Halloween

Melon Sandbox is free to play on iOS, Android, and browser. The Poppy Playtime Halloween event runs from October 23 to November 2.

About PlayDucky
PlayDucky Game Publishing is a premier global mobile game publisher focused on casual games. With years of industry experience, PlayDucky gives developers the essential support and resources they need to thrive in an increasingly competitive market.

About Melon Sandbox
Launched in 2021, Melon Sandbox is a physics-based world where players use a massive toolkit of objects and vehicles to create emergent gameplay. Available on iOS, Android, and Browser, it has surpassed 150 million downloads and is becoming the go-to launchpad for the next generation of indie developers.

About Mob Entertainment
Founded in 2015 by brothers Zach and Seth Belanger, Mob Entertainment is an independent entertainment company dedicated to creating unconventional stories and unforgettable characters. The studio created Poppy Playtime, the globally successful mascot horror franchise. Since its debut in 2021, the multi-million-unit game series has expanded across platforms, reaching fans worldwide to create a passionate, engaged community

Building on the franchise’s commercial success and the highly anticipated releases of its chapters, Mob Entertainment continues to expand the Poppy Playtime universe through new games, original content, publishing, consumer products, and live experiences. Their dedicated team continually pushes the boundaries of entertainment, delivering top-tier content that entertains and challenges the status quo in an ever-evolving industry.

About Poppy Playtime
Poppy Playtime is an episodic, puzzle-driven survival horror series set within the abandoned Playtime Co. toy factory, a once-flourishing world of childhood wonder forever changed by the mysterious and devastating Hour of Joy. Five chapters in, players continue to venture deeper into the factory, unearthing the disturbing truth behind Playtime Co.’s past while encountering an iconic cast of allies and enemies alike, including Huggy Wuggy, Kissy Missy, CatNap, and the Prototype. The toyetic world of Poppy Playtime has captivated more than 38 million players worldwide and inspired a passionate global community dedicated to uncovering every secret hidden within Playtime Co.

Pre-Orders Available Now as New Screenshots Offer a Glimpse of UFO Abductions and a Secret Military Surveillance Operation

London, 20th October 2026 – PQube and DEKLAZON announced today that their first-person alien abduction horror game, They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror, will launch physically on PlayStation® 5 in 2027, with pre-orders available now at selected retailers across Europe and North America.

In They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror, players step into the role of Taylor Fox, a local journalist sent to investigate reports of strange lights, shadowy figures, and unexplained disappearances at the remote Sherman Farm. What begins as a routine assignment quickly descends into a series of increasingly terrifying encounters with a sinister extraterrestrial presence.

As the investigation deepens, Taylor must search the farm for clues, discover hidden recordings and uncover the fate of a family caught in the middle of something far beyond their understanding. With unsettling discoveries around every corner, he must piece together fragments of a truth that was never meant to surface.

PQube has also released a selection of new screenshots today for They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror, offering a closer look at the scale of Taylor’s investigation. From UFO abductions to locals documenting mysterious sightings and resorting to brutal home surgery, the screenshots reveal the disturbing reality the Sherman family faced. They also offer a first glimpse inside a military base, where a covert surveillance operation is being conducted on the locals…

To learn more about They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror, be sure to check out the official website.

About PQube
PQube is a leading developer, publisher, and distributor of interactive entertainment, with a diverse international team passionate about publishing games they love. Partnering with developers globally, PQube delivers immersive, memorable gaming experiences to players across all major gaming platforms. Its rich, ever-expanding portfolio features established fan-favorites like Kitaria Fables, Potion Permit, Discounty, Adorable Adventures and Tormented Souls, alongside exciting new projects including Kusan: City of Wolves, Sniper Dan, They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror, Aggelos 2, K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut, The Detectorist Guild and Spyder: Agent 8. Learn more at www.pqube.co.uk.

About DEKLAZON
DEKLAZON is a visionary solo developer renowned for crafting deeply immersive and atmospheric gaming experiences. With They Are Here, DEKLAZON demonstrates their unparalleled talent for creating tension-filled narratives and engaging gameplay that leaves players on the edge of their seats.

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Jagex launches the most challenging end-game raid in the award-winning MMORPG to date.

Tuesday, 20th October 2026, Cambridge, UK – Jagex: The RuneScape Company has today unleashed The Fractured Archive, the fourth-ever raid developed for Old School RuneScape. Designed to be the most challenging raid released for the award-winning, beloved MMORPG, The Fractured Archive’s combat-heavy gameplay demands only the toughest players team up and battle against a series of seven increasingly tougher bosses… before a final boss match-up for supremacy and rewards.

Watch The Fractured Archive trailer here.

Launching four years after the release of the previous raid, The Tombs of Amascut, The Fractured Archive is set in an ancient vault where the god Guthix is sealed away with powerful artefacts and forbidden knowledge. As small teams of players (or brave solo raiders) venture through the Archive to prevent these secrets from being exploited, they’ll encounter demanding bosses before one final, epic, boss battle.

Successful players will be rewarded with a slew of items to arm themselves for their continued adventures across Gielinor, each polled and developed in tandem with the Old School RuneScape community. These include dual wielding, rapid-fire and heavy-ranged Ascension Crossbows; the enchanted Zorya’s Tome that imbues players with a fast-paced burst damage Special Attack spell; the ancient Rondache, a shield magically enhanced to absorb and reflect enemy blows against them; and finally the Obligator, a hard hitting best-in-slot Crush megarare!

To mark the launch of The Fractured Archive, Old School RuneScape developers will be hosting a launch watch party to see who can be the first to complete the raid from 12pm BST on the official Twitch channel.

Old School RuneScape is available now on PC, Steam, iOS, and Android, complete with cross-platform progression and play on PC and mobile. 

About Jagex

Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Jagex: The RuneScape Company, is a leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower communities across PC and mobile. Our MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, is played around the world and has welcomed over 300 million player accounts.

As RuneScape enters its 25th year in 2026, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: Dragonwilds in 2026, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. Jagex: The RuneScape Company remains focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history.

For more information, visit www.jagex.com.

Apocalypse Studios’ Free Update Unleashes Massive Unreal Engine 5.7 Visual and Gameplay Changes, Highly Requested Features, a New Cinematic Gameplay Trailer and a Steam Weeklong Deal

ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO, CANADA – October 20, 2026 – Independent developer Apocalypse Studios today announced that the massive update for Deadhaus Sonata, its dark fantasy action-RPG, is now live on Steam. The Dark Rebirth free update overhauls several gameplay systems along with addressing visual and performance issues in direct response to community feedback. With this major update, the game has been revitalized  with a more stylized, gothic aesthetic style complimenting the improved responsive combat mechanics. Additionally, Dark Rebirth adds 5 times more explorable areas and dramatically improves performance across desktop PCs and the Steam Deck.

To celebrate, Deadhaus Sonata is offering a Steam Weeklong Deal, available for $14.99 from today through October 26.

Watch the Deadhaus Sonata: Dark Rebirth Available Now Cinematic Trailer below.

Codes are available for media interested in seeing the vast improvement to Deadhaus Sonata with the new Dark Rebirth update – please email Anthony Chau ([email protected]) to request a code.

Dark Rebirth is a commitment from Denis Dyack (creator of Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem) and the Apocalypse Studios team to completely address all the initial bugs and issues that plagued Deadhaus Sonata’s Early Access launch in May. Together with new veteran creative director Ethan McKinnon (Riftwalker), players will see a day to night difference in visual performance, responsive gameplay, and narrative storytelling while providing new features and expansive levels demonstrating the passion and steadfastness in delivering Dyack’s vision to this spiritual successor of Legacy of Kain. 

Dark Rebirth Key Features

• Complete Visual Reset: Veteran creative director Ethan McKinnon (put in games he worked on) has new stylized art direction lets talk about that.
• Unreal Engine 5.7 Migration: Dark Rebirth takes full advantage of the Unreal Engine update with reworked volumetric lighting passes, enhanced screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO), and dynamic atmospheric weather featuring damaging lightning strikes.
• Massive Performance Boost & Handheld Readiness: Extensive optimization passes, reducing geometric polygon roadblocks, and re-tuning overall lighting effects corrects previous hardware bottlenecks to deliver fluid frame rates.
• The Remade Vale: The central proving ground is expanded to 5x its original footprint, introducing vertical pathways, dynamic exploration secrets, and the exterior Land of the Dead domain.
• Visceral Dismemberment: By community demand, combat now features extravagant dismemberment, heavier gore, and violent finisher executions. Pacing and animation frames have been standardized across distinct weapon identities to balance swords, high-damage heavy axes, and sweeping spears.
• Reactive Vampire Degradation & Armor Progression: An undead form that visually reflects physical trauma, deteriorating across five distinct stages of decay down to an emaciated skeletal frame at critical health. Players earn three progressive tiers of physical Vampire Armor to reinforce their revived form.
• Deterministic Feats & Expanded Tarots: Introduces the Feats and Inscriptions System (v0.2) and active Celestial Gates that unlock chambers in alignment with planetary movement. Expands occult options with five new Tarot cards: The Frost Sovereign, The Void, The Messenger, The Tempest, and The Alchemist.
• Dynamic Camera Control & Photo Mode: Features camera distance control, visual occlusion to prevent environmental clipping, atmospheric perspectives inspired by classic psychological horror titles, and an integrated Photo Mode.

Deadhaus Sonata: Dark Rebirth is available to download today as a free update for all existing Early Access owners on Steam.

To purchase Deadhaus Sonata during the limited-time Steam Week-Long Deal discount and view the complete developer patch notes, visit the official Steam store page.

About Apocalypse Studios Inc.
Founded in 2018 by veteran game developer Denis Dyack (Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes), Apocalypse Studios Inc. is an independent game development studio based in Ontario, Canada. Apocalypse focuses on dark fantasy storytelling, community co-creation, and deep systemic action-RPGs.