Deepest Fear is a sci-fi horror shooter, combining Metroidvania level design in the context of a classic FPS immersive sim, where the game’s setting is a puzzle to unravel and where creativity and improvisation are your greatest assets.

Deep beneath the ocean, a secret has been unearthed which throws mankind’s future into jeopardy. Fight your way to the heart of a sinister project and uncover a mystery both deeply personal and terrifying in its implications.

Channeling the spirit of iconic and subversive 1980s horror action films such as The Abyss, The Thing, The Fly, and Total Recall, and more broadly the cinematic canons of James Cameron, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, and Paul Verhoven, Deepest Fear aims to stay true to a vision of visceral horror, vivid characterisation, and confrontational storytelling. 

The immersive sim brings to life a new kind of terror as water itself becomes a living threat, with real-time fluid simulation allowing nightmarish entities to emerge from any water source or submerged space within the hermetic confines of the Neptune facility.

Using real time fluid simulation, fight otherworldly entities which manifest spontaneously from any water source, all while the environment around you can flood and take in water at any moment, sweeping you away with unpredictable currents, plunging you into the suffocating depths.

Following up on the game’s world premiere in the PC Gaming Show last week, the footage revealed in GameStar’s Find Your Next Game Shwocase demonstrates the nightmarish claustrophobia of this immersive horror indie; the protagonist, Dr. Danni Carroll, faces down monstrous creatures spontaneously emerging from water sources, as she explores a flooded deep-sea facility. 

Featuring an original cinematic score by the BAFTA-winning composer and studio co-director, Lyndon Holland, and the award-winning writing talent behind Virginia and Last Stop, Deepest Fear combines the cinematic storytelling the studio is known for with visceral first person shooter and horror gameplay.

As Dr. Danni Carroll, players are thrust into the labyrinthine depths of Neptune, a mysterious retro-futuristic facility hiding dark secrets and dangerous truths. With survival on the line, players must harness their wits and an arsenal of tools to uncover the mysteries surrounding a project masterminded by Danni’s estranged father.

Fight your way to the heart of a sinister project and uncover a mystery both deeply personal and terrifying in its implications. 

Key Features:

• Fear the water: Steel your nerves against the darkness, as terrifying creatures dynamically spawn from any water source, as real time fluid simulation creates unpredictable, emergent horror scenarios, and as an oppressive, decaying facilities collapses around you, threatening to suffocate you in the ocean depths.

• Take a deep breath. It could be your last: Use your wits, technology, and firearms to fight a tide of terrors, and make it out alive.
• Unravel the mysteries of this unsettling retro-futurist world!: Plunge into the original setting of Neptune, a clandestine facility in the unexplored depths of the ocean, immaculately rendered using the power of Unreal Engine 5. Encounter a rich cast of inhabitants in a world scarred by fear and mistrust.

Deepest Fear is in development for PC (Steam).