Indie Games

A GREY GRADIENT GAME BY OTR HVN If you’re looking for a new single-player horror game to play this Halloween season, The Consumed just released its free demo on Steam. This first-person analog horror title drops you into a dying mall with a flashlight, a camcorder, and a job to finish—even if something else in the building has other plans. Here’s everything you need to know about the demo and why this $7.99 indie horror game deserves a spot on your wishlist. ...

You don’t need to spend $70 to have a great scary night. Some of the best horror games of the last few years cost less than a pizza, and most of them can be finished in an evening. Here are ten great horror games that are under $10 on Steam at regular price. Plenty of them go even cheaper during sales, and Steam Scream V Fest (October 26 – November 2) is coming up fast. ...

October is the best month of the year to be a horror fan, and 2026 is stacked. Here are the new horror games coming out this month, in release order, plus one that just landed in case you missed it. Release dates can shift, so double-check the store page before you plan your Halloween around one. Just Released: Silent Hill: Townfall (September 24) Platforms: PC, PS5 If you haven’t gotten to it yet, this is the big one. Townfall is a first-person psychological horror game set in a Scottish seaside town. It’s a new Silent Hill, which means fog, dread, and a place that seems to know exactly what’s wrong with you. ...

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. ...

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. ...

You can’t really talk about dungeon crawlers without eventually landing on Wizardry — it’s one of the games the entire genre is built on top of. So when I found out it was a direct influence on Iron Abyss, it actually explained a lot about why the game feels the way it does. Descending Floor by Floor, On Purpose Wizardry’s whole structure is built around the dungeon as a place you methodically work through, level by level, learning its shape as you go. Iron Abyss keeps that bone-deep dungeon-crawler DNA intact — you’re descending through a sealed structure floor by floor, and the demo alone gives you procedurally-generated floors plus a handcrafted boss floor and a story floor. It’s not an open world pretending to be a dungeon crawler. It’s an actual descent, the way Wizardry always meant it. ...

Beast of Reincarnation just came out, and it’s a genuinely big deal — Game Freak’s first AAA game outside the Pokémon series, directed by someone who spent years on Pokémon’s battle systems and sound design. If you’ve been playing it, or you’re about to, I think you should have Iron Abyss on your radar too. Post-Apocalyptic Without a Clean Fix Beast of Reincarnation drops you into the year 4026, humanity on the edge of collapse, land corrupted by beasts nobody fully understands. Emma and Koo aren’t saving a healthy world, they’re surviving the wreckage of one that’s already mostly gone. Iron Abyss opens from the same emotional place — the world has ended, and you’re not trying to prevent that, you’re descending into what’s left of it to find out why. Neither game offers you the comfort of a world worth saving in its original state. You’re just trying to make sense of what’s left. ...