Blumhouse Games’ Sleep Awake creeps onto Steam and consoles December 2

Confession time: It was Sleeping awake I’ve had the Steam page open in a tab for about a month (hey, we all organize our thoughts in unique and beautiful ways), just so I don’t forget. The past year has been full of great original games across a wide range of genres, including horror games, and this is one I don’t want to miss. Now, I can close the tab and put a fixed release date on the calendar, e.g Sleeping awake It’s officially scheduled to arrive on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series Really happy vacation.

Sleeping awake It is a narrative-heavy, narcotic first-person horror game set in the last known city on Earth that has been destroyed by The HUSH, a mysterious force that vanishes anyone who sleeps. Katya must stay alert and survive the city while its citizens experiment with themselves in increasingly extreme ways, trying to achieve perpetual vigilance and outwit The HUSH. Needless to say, things get weird.

Sleeping awake It comes from Eyes Out, the studio he founded Special Ops: Line It is directed by Corey Davis and Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck, and is published by Blumhouse Games. Finck is responsible for the treble vocal patterns of Sleeping awakenaturally. This is the studio’s first title and something they’ve been working on for four years. Back in 2021, Davis and Fink told Engadget that they were focused on building a highly immersive, audio-based horror experience with a nightmarish feel.

“The kind of horror we build has a lot to do with the horrors of the universe and the horrors that you sleep with at night, the ones that are just around the corner and outside our purview, but they are there,” Davis said. “And the technology to build those kinds of soundscapes, the local sound and the reverb and the realism behind it, coming from VR before, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to work with this stuff.”

Fink added: “I’m really excited about the nuance and subtlety of stepping out of silence, like really poignant silence, and starting to move out of that silence toward an impactful embellishment of some sort, no matter how big or bigger. And that play between the mixed soundscape of the world within the tangible physical space within the game, and where it dissipates with the score, and the music of the game, can be really challenging and inspiring.”

Blumhouse Games has published its first horror project, Fear of lightsin October 2024 and later Sleeping awakehas a steady stream of additional horrors in store. Cooperative gothic horror game Hell eyes Arrived in August from developer Gambrinous, including titles Seasons of the grave and Cresol: Theater of Idols It is scheduled to drop soon.