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Race through a flesh-and-machine nightmare, using fast movement, varied weapons, and scarce extra lives to stop the Growth.
Released 28 Aug 2025
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Ultraviolent, fast-paced, merciless retro FPS action. Slaughter your way through nightmarish industrial mazes, transformed cityscapes, and surreal alien structures to cut down the Growth.
Developed by SmoothBrainDev · Published by Hyperstrange









INCISION is a first-person shooter set in a world being consumed by the Growth, a spreading mass where flesh and machinery merge. You fight through industrial mazes, ruined cityscapes, and strange structures while uncovering fragments of the world's story.
Combat rewards constant movement, quick aim, and weapon switching. The arsenal includes firearms with alternate attacks and a spear-like melee weapon that can parry certain attacks. Enemies have different weapons and behaviors, so positioning and choosing how to engage matter.
Levels contain routes to explore, secrets, switches, and extra lives. Lives can bring you back during a level, but they do not carry over to the next; if you run out, you restart that level. There are no mid-level saves or checkpoints, and difficulty and enemy projectile settings can be adjusted.
Players who enjoy INCISION often praise its fast combat, responsive movement, varied weapons, and grimy flesh-and-metal atmosphere. Reviews also frequently appreciate the soundtrack, enemy designs, and levels to explore. The no-checkpoint lives system is divisive: some players enjoy the tension it adds, while others find restarting long levels after running out of lives frustrating, especially alongside the high difficulty.
INCISION is a brutal, fast, merciless blast from the past inspired by the godfathers of the first person shooter genre like Doom, Quake, Blood, and Shadow Warrior. INCISION offers an experience that demands skill and focus from its player, and rewards them with intense carnage. Yours is a simple job. Cut, shoot, burn and decimate it all to stop the spread of the Growth. Mercy is weakness. Hesitation is death.
INCISION is designed to be merciless in its difficulty, but the player will never feel weak in the face of danger. Your arsenal is varied, powerful, loud, and will easily turn enemies into sticky red puddles, as long as they don't first do it to you. Movement is fast and responsive. The story never gets in the way of the gameplay, but there is plenty of it to be found for those who seek to unravel its mysteries.
Ten weapons of mass-slaughter, all including powerful alternative firing modes. Fire a volley of bouncing incendiary bombs from your shotgun. Lob grenades from your heavy machine gun to turn your foes into red mist. Do tricks with your trusty revolver to maximize its damage output. Spray a volley of four incendiary rockets and watch even the strongest foe crumble to ashes before you. Go berserk with a saw-spear that works as a long-range slashing weapon or a close-range buzzsaw.
The world of INCISION has been transformed into a living nightmare where a ever-consuming, ever-growing mass of flesh and machine live in unholy symbiosis. All we hold familiar and comfortable has been turned into a network of hellish, rusty, pulsating labyrinthian series of factories that serve as the nerves and organs for some greater being that only seeks to merge, unite and grow.
The Growth has seeks to unite and merge all life and technology alike, turning its people into machine-freaks, all of them designed to turn anyone who opposes its will inside-out. Augmented soldiers with burst-firing energy rifles, mad sycophants with ricocheting sawblades, machine spider-priests aka. "Spiderpopes" with homing missiles, and ancient things from beyond our world. INCISION's roster of monsters will keep you on your toes til the bloody end.
What sets INCISION apart - and makes it so brutally satisfying - is its old-school extra lives system, with 1-ups scattered across the map to help you avoid death. You’d better hunt them down, because if you run out, the level restarts. No checkpoints. No quicksaves. Each level must be beaten in one go.
INCISION challenges you to learn and adapt, sharpening your reflexes, your aim, your rage - until you’re no longer the prey, but the butcher of the nightmare spawn.
Brutal. Unforgiving. But always fair. This is what a true FPS challenge tastes like.
INCISION includes a soundtrack by Frédérick Chicoine "iNi"; An entire album's worth of atmospheric horror ambience and mayhem-inducing metal that will burst your veins with adrenaline.
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| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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