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Investigate haunted locations with teammates, identify the ghost using paranormal tools—or take control of it and hunt the team.
Released 31 Oct 2025
Hunt as the Ghost
Identify Ghost Types
Track Paranormal Evidence
Severance is a 1-5 player paranormal investigation game… with a twist. Use tools and equipment to identify the correct ghost type while a dangerous, violent entity hunts you down. The twist? YOU can become the ghost. Choose Ghost AI, or an asymmetrical mode where a player takes the Ghost role.
Developed by Sykes Games · Published by Sykes Games
SEVERANCE is a paranormal investigation horror game for 1–5 players. Investigators enter haunted locations to identify the entity before it begins hunting them.
Use equipment such as EMF meters, video cameras, thermometers, and possession dolls to collect evidence. Pay attention to ghost behavior and specific tells as you work out its type.
Play against a Ghost AI or take the ghost role in an asymmetrical match. As the ghost, interact with the environment, frighten investigators, manage energy and sanity, and choose when to start a hunt.
Players who enjoy SEVERANCE often single out the chance to play as the ghost, which adds a new, unpredictable role to cooperative ghost investigations and creates tense or funny moments with friends. Reviewers also appreciate gathering evidence while watching the ghost’s behavior. Others describe the experience as rough or repetitive, with bugs, limited content, unclear instructions, and concerns about investigation pacing or ghost balance.
Severance is a 1–5 player co-op paranormal investigation game, with a twist...
YOU can become the ghost.
Severance is a 1–5 player, online co-op, tactical horror game. You and your team of investigators enter haunted locations to track and identify 20+ unique ghost types using professional paranormal equipment. Use tools like EMF Meters, Video Cameras and Possession Dolls to gather evidence and spot specific behavioral "tells." Whether facing a brutal AI or a player-controlled ghost in Asymmetrical mode, you must use your learned skills to solve the mystery before the hunt begins.
Choose how you play:
Face a smart Ghost AI designed to stalk, scare, and hunt investigators.
Or enter the Ghost Player Mode, where you hunt as the ghost against your investigating friends
In Ghost Player mode, one player becomes the ghost.
Interact with the map, scare investigators, lock doors, throw objects, and plan hunts strategically. Outplay the team by managing sanity, timing hunts, and creating fear before striking.
In Ghost AI mode, the entity is controlled by an advanced AI that actively observes investigators, reacts to their actions, and builds pressure over time.
It uses the environment, drains sanity, and hunts when the moment is right, creating tense, unpredictable investigations.
Use classic paranormal equipment to gather real evidence and identify the ghost type.
Be aware, the ghost sees and hears you. Every scare, interaction, or mistake can become valuable evidence if you stay calm under pressure.
Severance features realistic visuals, environmental audio, and a minimal UI for full immersion.
Every sound, shadow, and flicker could be a clue… or a warning.
Arm yourself with classic paranormal tools like EMF meters and thermometers, alongside unique devices such as possession dolls to track and provoke the entity.
Success relies on teamwork. Share evidence, communicate clearly, and watch each other’s backs, because whether it’s AI or a real player, the ghost is always listening.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | Some minor visual elements such as parts of the logo design and a few user-interface textures were originally assisted by generative tools and then refined manually. |
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