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As a kidnapped doctor in a cursed Victorian city, sneak, scavenge, and improvise routes through a first-person horror maze.
Released 05 Sep 2022
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Trapped in a dark, Victorian city consumed by an ancient curse, you must plan your survival and daring escape using nothing but stealth, an arsenal of eccentric weapons, and your wit in this haunting adventure inspired by the immersive sims and survival horror greats of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Developed by Dillon Rogers, David Szymanski, Nate Berens, Thomas Porta · Published by New Blood Interactive
You play a doctor abducted into a Victorian metropolis undergoing a frightening transformation. To survive and escape, you must make your way through its streets, tunnels, and buildings while facing hostile inhabitants and monsters.
Explore large, connected areas with vertical routes, hidden passages, and shortcuts. Move through shadows and manage the noise you make as you evade enemies, or use weapons and the environment when stealth fails. Objects can be picked up, thrown, climbed, broken, and used to find new ways forward.
Your tools include a canesword, revolver, folding shotgun, traps, and a rope-firing harpoon rifle. Manage limited supplies in a physical case, inspect ammunition by hand, and use found items and enemy research as you progress. Difficulty settings can also change how saving works.
Players who enjoy Gloomwood often praise its oppressive gothic atmosphere and the dense, interconnected spaces that reward careful exploration. Reviews also value the freedom to find alternate routes and improvise with tools and objects, alongside the tension created by light, sound, and scarce resources. Some players find navigation, stealth, or combat frustrating, and many note that the game is still in Early Access with content arriving slowly.
Gloomwood is a stealth horror FPS that follows your mysterious abduction to a forgotten, twisted Victorian metropolis in the midst of a horrifying transformation. Wield your canesword and take to the shadows as you uncover the accursed mystery hidden within the fog.
The producers of DUSK, AMID EVIL, ULTRAKILL and FAITH bring you a frightening, gothic immersive sim full of haunted streets, dark tunnels and decadent mansions.
An intricate, hand-crafted city with freeform exploration - from towering rooftops down to hidden passages, the routes you take and paths you make, are your choice.
A detailed stealth and sound system that tracks your light visibility and propagates noise accurately through the world. Tread lightly. Or prepare to get loud.
A unique arsenal to meet any situation - a stealthy canesword, six-shot revolver, folding shotgun, hand-placed traps, rope-slinging harpoon rifle and more.
In-depth player interactivity, from leaning to eavesdrop, peeking through door cracks, checking the bullets in your firearms and mantling onto ledges.
A mob of ghastly denizens and monsters with acute senses, like the sharp-clawed Crowmen and the fearsome, cadaver-seeking Corpse Duster.
Gloomwood is full of objects to pick up, throw, climb, smash and use to your advantage.
There is more to this city than you can possibly imagine...
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
