Hunt nightmarish monsters from ancient folklore in a mysterious open world, collecting their enhanced sense powers and discovering elemental arrows. Follow their tracks and blood trails. Pay attention to the wind direction so they can't smell you approaching. Beware, the hunter is also the hunted.

Return to the lodge or a safe space before night. This is a hostile world and they will find you and kill you.

The Axis Unseen features original music by Clifford Meyer, previously of the legendary post-metal bands ISIS and Red Sparowes. It is a unique blend of heavy metal and primitive instruments. The music dynamically adjusts to what is going on in the game. Sometimes it is atmospheric, other times it is intense metal.

Upgrade your senses with the powers of the creatures. See scent particles. Feel the warmth left behind on their tracks. See colors that no human has ever seen.

Your bow and arrow keeps you alive. Upgrade your bow or even find different arrow types such as fire, wind controlling or time distorting arrows. Experiment to see all the different ways the arrows can interact with each other, such as wind arrows making the fire spread faster.

Find out what happened to the hunters who came before you and what secrets they uncovered by inspecting their journals and drawings. Where did this world come from? How do you stop the creatures from escaping into your world?

Dark Product and Just Purkey Games announced that The Axis Unseen is coming to PS5 on December 4, 2025.

The PS5 version delivers the most immersive way to experience this folklore-driven open world, enhanced with DualSense haptics, adaptive triggers, and 3D spatial audio.

The Axis Unseen on PS5 makes full use of the DualSense controller to connect players more deeply to the world’s tension, tracking, and combat.

Adaptive Triggers — A Living Bow in Your Hands

• Tension scales dynamically as you draw your bow.
• Each elemental arrow type has a unique resistance profile.
• Subtle trigger pulses warn you when monsters have detected you or are stalking from behind.

Haptic Feedback — Track the World Through Touch

• Directional haptic waves guide your enhanced senses: scent, heat, blood trails, and movement.
• Creatures emit distinct haptic patterns that intensify as they close in.
• Terrain, weather, and magic effects are translated into fine-grain tactile feedback.

3D Spatial Audio — Hear What Hunts You

• Footsteps, breathing, and creature movement reveal direction and distance.
• Wind shifts can be heard sweeping around you — critical for tracking and stealth.
• Environmental ambience reacts to danger, rituals, and elemental arrow effects.

Together, these features deliver the most immersive and fear-driven version of The Axis Unseen yet.

There are 6 different regions. Each with their own creatures, weather and locations to explore. Some regions will require special powers that you must obtain in order to survive and navigate them.

The mountain in the distance is over two miles tall. You will have to ascend that mountain and find a way to stop the creatures from getting into the real world.

As you explore these regions, you will hunt a variety of unique creatures, including some that can only be found once. Can you find and hunt them all?

You navigate using landmarks, the sun and the stars. All of the "UI" in the game exists as if it was really there in the world. There are no glowing lines telling you where to go or minimaps. You need to figure it out and explore this world and uncover its secrets.

Key Features:

• Open-World Hunting Horror – Explore a hand-crafted world filled with creatures pulled from global folklore.
• Enhanced Sense Powers – Track scent, read heat signatures, and perceive supernatural visual cues.
• Elemental Arrows & Primal Magic – Craft fire, lightning, and shadow arrows to turn the beasts’ powers against them.
• Diegetic Immersion – No HUD; your tattoos, gear, and environment reveal all vital information.
• Lost Journals – Discover the stories of hunters before you — and write your own through survival.
• “Primitive Metal” Soundtrack – 90+ minutes of adaptive heavy-metal and primitive-instrument fusion by Clifford Meyer (ISIS, Red Sparowes).
• Pacifist Documentation Mode – Photograph and study creatures instead of killing them.

Just Purkey Games is a solo indie game company founded by Nate Purkeypile. Nate has over 17 years experience in the games industry and worked on titles such as Bloodrayne 2, Aeon Flux, Metroid Prime 3, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Starfield. He was the Lead Artist on Fallout 76 and the Fallout 3 DLCs Point Lookout and The Pitt.

Currently available for PC (Steam and Epic Store), The Axis Unseen is coming to PS5 on December 4, 2025.