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The Consumed is coming soon, and I keep seeing the same questions about it. Here are the answers in one place. I’ll update this page as new details are announced. Wishlist The Consumed on Steam When does The Consumed come out? October 23, 2026, on Steam. How much does The Consumed cost? $7.99 (USD). Is The Consumed part of Steam Scream Fest? Yes. The Consumed will be featured in Steam Scream V Fest, Steam’s horror event, running October 26 – November 2, 2026, just after launch. ...

The Consumed launches October 23, and if you’re like me, the wait is the worst part. So here’s a list of games that hit the same nerves: night shifts, empty liminal spaces, cameras as weapons, and low-poly dread. Several of these aren’t just similar. The developers name them as direct inspirations, and I’ve marked those. Each one gets a quick note on why it’s here, so you can pick the ones closest to what you’re excited about. ...

Let’s get it out of the way: The Consumed is a game where you play a night security guard working five nights in a building where something is very wrong. If your first thought was Five Nights at Freddy’s, you’re not alone. It was mine too. The comparison is fair, and FNAF fans should absolutely have The Consumed on their radar. But the two games build their night shifts very differently, and the differences are what make The Consumed its own thing. ...

When people ask me what The Consumed is like, the shortest answer I’ve found is: it’s the Backrooms meets Resident Evil. That sounds like two things that shouldn’t go together. The Backrooms is about wandering through empty, endless space where nothing happens, and that’s the scary part. Resident Evil is about managing scarce resources while something very much does happen to you. The Consumed puts both in one dead mall, and it works better than it has any right to. ...

I already wrote a quick explainer on The Consumed. This post is about where it comes from. If you’ve spent any time in the strange corners of the internet over the last ten years (analog horror tapes, Backrooms lore, dead-mall YouTube, vaporwave albums with a Roman bust on the cover), The Consumed will feel like someone gathered all of it into one building and handed you the keys. Literally: you’re the night security guard. ...

Horror games usually give you one goal: survive. The Consumed gives you a shift to finish. Something is in the building with you, and the job still has to get done. Here’s what OTR HVN’s new game is and how it plays, without spoiling what’s waiting for you on each night. The Setting: The Hargrove Galleria The Hargrove Galleria is a dead mall stuck in a year the clock only shows as 20XX. Yellowed marble floors, water-damaged ceiling tiles, buzzing fluorescent tubes, empty kiosks. Most of the merchandise is gone. The mannequins stayed. ...

Just in time for Halloween: The Consumed launches on Steam on October 23, 2026, and you can wishlist it right now. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5230130/The_Consumed The Short Version You’re the night-shift security guard at the Hargrove Galleria, a dying mall where employees have been disappearing and stores have been quietly closing. You’ve got a flashlight, a camcorder, and a checklist. Your job is to secure every open store, file your report, and clock out. ...

Most fashion collabs get you a capsule drop, a lookbook, and a couple of influencer posts. GREY GRADIENT went a different way for Series 002. They partnered with indie studio OTR HVN and made a horror game. That game is The Consumed, and it hits Steam on October 23, 2026. A Fashion Brand That Wanted to Talk About Consumerism GREY GRADIENT’s idea for Series 002 is a fashion brand poking fun at how religious corporate culture has gotten. It’s a funny thing for a clothing label to take on, and that’s kind of the point. The Consumed treats the mall like a cathedral. The storefronts are chapels, the mannequins are saints, and spending money is the ritual everyone shows up for. ...

The indie game that’s been floating around as a promising demo since earlier this year is now out in full. Iron Abyss, a sci-fi horror mecha dungeon crawler from developer OTR HVN (with co-development from YG3), hit digital storefronts today for Windows PC, macOS, and Linux. The price: $9.99. A free demo remains available for anyone wanting a taste before buying. In case you missed the pre-launch chatter, Iron Abyss puts you in command of a three-pilot android crew — ASSAULT, MEDIC, and SYSTEMS — as they descend 30 floors into a sealed, post-apocalyptic structure. The game’s hook is its “sensor-rendered” visual style: you see the world through the mech’s amber wireframe reconstruction, never the actual environment. That aesthetic draws heavily from Evangelion, Alien, Blade Runner, and Soviet New Wave cinema, according to the developers, who’ve been transparent about their influences from the start. ...

The comms channel is dead air except for your own breathing. The IRON ARK’s sensors are the only thing standing between you and whatever’s actually down there. Three android pilots are waiting. The world has ended, Commander. You still have your orders. What Iron Abyss Actually Is If you’re dropping in for the first time: Iron Abyss is a sci-fi horror mecha dungeon crawler from OTR HVN, built in collaboration with YG3, and it’s one of the more distinctive atmospheric indie games to land this year. You command the IRON ARK and its three-pilot android crew — ASSAULT, MEDIC, SYSTEMS — as they descend into a buried, post-apocalyptic structure that was sealed off for reasons the game makes you piece together one floor at a time rather than hand you outright. Nothing is spelled out. You’re reading environment details, item fragments, and your crew’s own deteriorating state to reconstruct a story about a world that already ended. ...