Descent of the Hunted

$5.99

Release Date:: Feb 25, 2024
Developer:: Calamity Bay Games
Publisher:: Calamity Bay Games
Platforms:: Windows

Indie Adventure Steam Achievements Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

Descent of the Hunted is a psychological horror Visual Novel where the player controls the monster stalking a poor, tormented soul to whatever end awaits her. Your choices determine the nature of the beast and its physical make up. Her fate is in your hands.

Inspired by transgressive horror like The Babadook and The Lighthouse and taking narrative cues from story-driven classics like Disco Elysium, Descent of the Hunted explores coping with trauma in our modern world of isolation and electronic pacifiers. How little one must do to appear to be managing. How anonymous our suffering. In such an environment, does it really matter if the monsters are outside our minds or within?

CONTENT NOTES: The horror content is unnerving but not gory or startling and a play through of a single route takes about an hour and a half. There are three routes and four endings to explore, plus achievements for different play styles.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

1 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #293908 english

4 hrs at review

Recommended

An amazing visual novel that explores really dark and difficult subject matter. And it does it near perfectly. The story is both tense and told respectfully. It can really put off the player but that's what it's going for. The visuals are unique and quite fluid for a visual novel. Overall a great psychological horror game that I highly recommend TW: Suicide, Miscarriage, Death