Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

"Wake up, number 832."

The sharp wail of a siren tears through dreams of the past. You open your eyes, but see only darkness. A familiar click, the whir of screws, a cable connecting — and an image ignites inside your brain. You see yourself from behind, locked in a cramped cell. A mechanical voice gives commands. You obey. Until the incident occurs…

DEAD UNIT is a grim third-person horror game set in the experimental facility "CAVITY-4", infamously known as "THE GUT". The protagonist is disposable material, a prisoner classified as a DEAD UNIT with no name and no rights. Unimaginable Entities have breached containment, giving a lone prisoner a desperate chance to escape. You must actively explore labyrinths of concrete and steel, bypass corporate security systems, piece together material traces of the catastrophe, and hide in the shadows. Hand-blinding yourself to survive in the dark. There are no weapons, the Entities cannot be fought, and electronics are failing — will you find a way out?

A Chance for Salvation

You control an unarmed prisoner whose sole objective is to find a way out of the complex and survive. To achieve this, you must explore numerous locations, bypass the security systems of both the facility and your own helmet, gather scattered data, search for access codes to locked sectors, and evade the Entities in the shadows.

The Shackle-Helmet

The corporate helmet locked onto your head is the primary barrier to your freedom. It forcibly shifts your perspective, turning you into a faceless witness to your own actions, and denies you access to straightforward routes. Find a way to hack these shackles and override their protocols to clear your path to freedom.

Trust Your Hearing, Not Your Eyes

If the helmet begins to catch static, audio distortions, and digital noise—danger is just a few steps away. Run or die. In a world where electronics are blind to threats, distorted sounds and the cold concrete of the corridors are your only allies. Use the massive walls of the complex as a reliable shield.

The Enemy Cannot Be Fought

The Entities were brought here by human hands. For experiments. But humanity lost control. These beings defy the natural laws of life, and electronics refuse to see them—monitors and cameras register nothing but glitches and clusters of dead pixels. Any encounter is fatal. No weapons, no margin for error.

Explore to Survive

"CAVITY-4" is vast, and it is slowly dying, and man here is merely a foreign cell dreaming of escape. To chart a course to the exit, you will have to unravel the physical traces of the catastrophe. Every stain of machine oil on the floor or dent in a steel door speaks louder than words. These are not menu hints—this is the world itself, and it will guide your way if you look closely.

Key Features

• Voluntary Blindness. Your core survival mechanic is the manual shutdown of your helmet's display feed. To hide from the Entities in the dark, you will have to strip yourself of sight, navigating completely blind by relying only on afterimages and your own memory.

• Environmental Detective. The catastrophe unfolds through physical traces in the environment: the geometry of the locations, the bodies of deceased personnel, oil leaks, rust, and structural damage to steel installations. There are no UI hints here.

• Landscape of Fear. A contrasting rhythm of threats: shifting from the crushing claustrophobia of underground prison cells to the daunting agoraphobia of gargantuan testing grounds and open courtyards.

• Blind Threat. The Entities distort reality and completely disable the helmet's electronics. Your only anchors are audio glitches, dead pixels on screens, and your intuition. If you see the danger right in front of you—it is already too late.

• Visual Code. An uncompromising aesthetic fusion of monumental brutalism, analog technogenesis, and grounded everyday horror.

• Concentrated Experience. A tense, dense adventure focused on pure suspense and a profound sense of dread. No cheap jump-scares, no drawn-out grind. One story that will be remembered forever.

You are nobody. You are a number. You are a Dead Unit. But even disposable material has a chance. Go through THE GUT, unravel the catastrophe, and maybe you will see light beyond the walls. Or stay here forever — just another bloody imprint on the concrete.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game contains traces of violence, depictions of human remains, and blood traces as part of the narrative and environmental exploration. The atmosphere is designed to evoke anxiety and fear. The game includes themes of involuntary medical treatment, as well as moderate use of strong language in text and audio.