Gloomwood

Gloomwood is a stealth-horror first-person immersive sim from Dillon Rogers and David Szymanski, produced by the team behind DUSK, AMID EVIL, ULTRAKILL and FAITH. The game traps the player in a forgotten Victorian metropolis in the middle of a horrifying transformation. You've been mysteriously abducted into the city, and your escape route involves uncovering the curse hidden beneath the fog while remaining as unseen as possible to the things stalking the streets.

The city itself is the game's defining asset. Hand-crafted from towering rooftops down to hidden tunnels and decadent mansions, freeform exploration is encouraged everywhere — there are usually multiple routes through any area, and the immersive-sim conventions support both careful planners and improvisers. The stealth and sound system tracks your light visibility and propagates noise through the world in a way that genuinely punishes carelessness and rewards patience.

Your arsenal balances stealth and noise. A canesword handles quiet kills, a six-shot revolver covers ranged threats, a folding shotgun makes a much louder argument, hand-placed traps let you set ambushes, a rope-slinging harpoon rifle traverses and kills depending on what you target with it. In-depth player interactivity covers leaning, peeking through door cracks, checking the bullets in your firearms manually, and mantling onto ledges — the immersive sim grammar applied with care. The denizens — sharp-clawed Crowmen, the cadaver-seeking Corpse Duster, and several others — have acute senses and force you to tread lightly. The game remains in active development with content updates.