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Search a missing friend's mansion, solve escape-room puzzles, and splice live-action clips to uncover what happened.
Released 31 Jul 2025
Search a Film Mansion
Splice Video Clips
Solve Escape-Room Puzzles
Find your missing friend. Uncover the secrets within. Brave a luxurious and haunting mansion in Dead Take, a first-person psychological horror crafted by Surgent Studios.
Developed by Surgent Studios · Published by Pocketpair Publishing
You play an actor who enters a luxurious mansion to find a missing friend, last seen there after a glamorous party. The empty house holds clues to what happened and to the people connected with a powerful film producer.
Explore the mansion, inspect rooms and documents, and solve puzzles involving codes, keys, and objects to open new areas or restore equipment. The experience centers on investigation and puzzle-solving rather than combat.
As you search, you find USB drives and memory cards containing damaged video. Splice clips together in the home cinema to reveal scenes, interviews, and auditions, gradually piecing together the mystery and the darker side of the entertainment industry.
Players often praise the cast's live-action performances, the eerie mansion atmosphere, and the way video clips help unfold the mystery. Many also enjoy the observation-based puzzles. Reactions to the story and horror vary: some find the narrative compelling and the scares effective, while others describe the writing as predictable or the jump scares as cheap.
EXT. MANSION - NIGHT "FIND VINNY"
Night falls and he still won't pick up the phone. You arrive at the mansion: the last place he went. It's oddly quiet for the site of a glamorous party the night before. Your invite must have gotten lost in the mail. In any case, you make your way inside to find your friend.
Actors have to look out for each other in this industry.
Feed me something real
INT. MANSION - NIGHT "PLAY YOUR PART"
An abandoned film set. A broken home cinema. Searching the mansion and unlocking its secrets requires the fullness of your ingenuity. Pay attention.
INT. HOME CINEMA - NIGHT "A SPLICE OF LIFE"
Your search reveals a number of USB drives and memory cards containing corrupted video files. Some can be spliced together to reveal what really happened within these walls. Try not to lose yourself in your work.
INT. HEART OF HOLLYWOOD - NIGHT "TAKE YOUR SHOT"
The house is watching. It seems to haunt your steps. Piece together what really happened last night as you discover a side of the entertainment industry only discussed in whispers.
The cruelty. The sordid gossip. The auditions gone wrong. The shadowy figure with the power to make or break your career.
There's only one way to guarantee your success: feed me something real.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 19 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
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