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A troubled train conductor wakes in a surreal nightmare, searching strange environments for clues while solving puzzles and avoiding creatures.
Released 22 Apr 2025
Piece Together Clues
Solve Environmental Puzzles
Explore Fixed-Camera Worlds
Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom.
Developed by RED SOUL GAMES · Published by Raw Fury






You play as Roman, a tormented train conductor who wakes in the surreal dimension known as the Gloom. As he moves through nightmarish environments and encounters other lost characters, he searches for a way out and pieces together a mystery.
Exploration and environmental puzzles drive progress. Study rooms for symbols, numbers, and other clues, find useful tools, and connect information that may be scattered across an area. A pen and paper or screenshots can help keep track of details.
The game uses fixed camera angles and shifts between character perspectives. Roman can fight creatures with weapons or try to avoid them; save rooms offer pauses between explorations, with saving more limited on hard mode. The story has multiple endings.
Reviews often praise the unsettling atmosphere, visual design, sound, and the appeal of its classic survival-horror presentation. Some players enjoy the environmental puzzles and the effort they require, while others find their clues too obscure or inconvenient to track. Opinions are also mixed on the story, which many describe as cryptic, and combat, which is frequently criticized as clunky or underdeveloped.

Post Trauma is a Puzzle Horror Game and Red Soul Games is a small studio made up of fans of old school survival horror. We have taken a lot of inspiration from several genre-defining classics and we hope it shows!
Puzzle oriented: Designed for players looking for a challenge. Escape room style puzzles that require you to study your surroundings carefully. A pen and paper is recommended.
Retro Vibes: Play a modern survival horror through a retro-focused lens. Fixed Cameras. Save Rooms (With limited saving on hard mode). And continuous tension built through the atmosphere
Tackle Threats: Or choose not to! Not every enemy needs to be fought or encounter won, so pick your battles wisely!
Multiple Perspectives: The Gloom isn’t as lonely as it first appears, as the story of Post Trauma is told from multiple perspectives with full voice acting.
In Post Trauma, players control Roman (Togo Igawa), a tormented train conductor who awakes to find himself in a surreal dimension following a terrible panic attack. Faced with horrifying architecture and nightmarish abominations, Roman can choose to defend himself with an array of weapons or try to find the path of least resistance.
Inspired by key staples of the Survival Horror genre, Post Trauma blends fixed camera angles with stunning visuals through Unreal Engine 5 to create a truly unsettling, yet familiar horror experience. But just when you think you have the answers, this hellscape changes the questions as you enter the unknown to face your greatest fears.
To survive this cruel world, you must piece together an ongoing mystery across several, seemingly unrelated settings. Deducing your environments to find unlikely hints and discovering precious tools in unexpected places will help you make continued progress.
As you find clues and solve puzzles, you’ll gradually learn more about where you are and how you can escape, using a delicate mix of patience and cunning to stay alive. And maybe a pad and paper too.
Featuring a fully voice acted cast (Togo Igawa, Autumn Ivy, Hyoie O’Grady) and a captivating, ambient audioscape, elevated by a hypnotic score from Nicolas Gasparini (Myuu), Post Trauma has been crafted to be a homage to beloved franchises and a new merging of playstyles. The intent is to create a truly special, unforgettable horror experience fuelled by pure passion and incredible talent.


| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 15 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |