Planned Release Date: August 2026

About This Demo

WELCOME TO THE SHOW - TUNED IN: THE PILOT

Five years. Five years after the blood, the screams, the meltdown.

June C. Zann goes back to Blackwood Manor, her stepfather's home. It's her 18th birthday and she's alone. Her brother, Josh, is missing since the incident. Her stepfather, Arthur, is no longer with the living. But, when he steps into her old home, something has changed. 

In the living room, where the remains of the tragedy should be visible, everything is clean. And there's a new TV set, one that June doesn't remember. The moment she turns it on, she becomes glued: unable to blink, to speak, to do NOTHING but watch the TV. 

• First playthrough of between 40 minutes and 1 hour.

• A branching story with 8 different endings.

• Highly replayable.

Simple controls with a multitude of uses

• Making decisions.

• Searching for clues in a room.

• Escaping during a chase through the forest.

• Trying to get out of the house without being discovered.

• Manipulating different elements in the puzzles.

• Taking part in a macabre contest, putting people's lives at stake.

• Or simply adjusting the volume on our television to hear sounds and information we otherwise couldn't.

• … Much more to come in the final game.

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN TUNED IN, THE FINAL GAME, WHEN IT LAUNCHES

Trapped by a dark entity within a cursed television broadcast, you must survive its sinister lineup of puzzles, layered with multiple shades of horror, and face impossible decisions.

Encounter or impersonate other survivors through a branching story where your mastery of the TV's controls determines who escapes to freedom.

All the while, reality and television signals bleed into one another.

IMMERSIVE GAMEPLAY

Play by manipulating virtual TV dials and buttons. Navigate through dials, switch between channels trying to look for some hints, solve puzzles, and directly change how the story unfolds and new channels unlock.

↕️ Navigate a static > 🔁 Tune a program

🔎 Find the clues >  🧩 Solve the puzzle

🤫 Hide and seek > Escape 👤 

🏃 Run, jump and crouch > Survive ❤️‍🩹

SURVIVORS' FATE RESTS IN YOUR HANDS

Every survivor's fate rests in your hands. Your choices carve diverging paths through a branching narrative with multiple endings, where no two runs are ever the same. 

Characters, set pieces, secrets, and channels interlock to surface a deeper, hidden story, while backtracking opens missed encounters, new routes, and undiscovered frequencies.

A SHIFTING ANTHOLOGY OF NIGHTMARES 

While all the programs tie back into solving one overarching cursed mystery, throughout the experience, the broadcasts evolve into a shifting anthology of nightmares, each inspired by a different horror subgenre, reflecting its own personality, ranging from the gritty, heavy-inked shadows of a slasher to the muted, grainy textures of atmospheric folk horror with a visceral, graphic novel aesthetic.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

• Each TV program features a different flavor of horror, ranging from mystery to gore.

• Immersive CRT gameplay.

• Branching narrative with multiple endings.

• New Game+ mode adds new character perspectives and depth to the story.

• A visceral, graphic novel aesthetic.

• English voices by Scott Cleverdon, Gillian Apter, Robert Giordano and Beth Cohen, among others.

• Original score & VFX sounds by Blanktone Studios.

Tuned In is the first game from Vercors Games, the new boutique studio by the core team drawn from Tequila Works' senior staff (RIME, GYLT, Song of Nunu a League of Legends Story...), and joined by experienced talents from Airship Syndicate and Blizzard. 

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game features dark psychological horror themes, including gore, depictions of suicide, and stylized, cartoonish violence. It includes surreal depictions of death and a gore sequence of traveling through a hole in a character's head, flesh-made safe box. Additionally, the 'Recordings' section (which is outside the core gameplay loop) contains disturbing visual sequences, including a black-and-white scene depicting the aftermath of a 9-year-old child poisoning their family.