Solo developer Visuwyg and publisher Hyperstrange have released DERELIKT, a PS1-era-inspired sci-fi horror game, on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, according to the official launch announcement. The Steam launch arrives with a 10% introductory offer that trims the price from $19.99 USD to $17.99 USD through November 27.
The game casts players as an outside contractor sent to the bustling Von Neumann Outpost to find out what happened to Excavation Team Delta, who vanished on the derelict surface. What starts as a recovery job sours fast: the halls are dark, the systems are failing, and the survivors you encounter are not telling the same story.
DERELIKT is built around being under-equipped and out of your depth. Ammunition, health and inventory space are precious, and traditional and alien weapons offer different ways to handle what waits in the dark. More than a dozen NPCs remain aboard the outpost, each with their own secrets and agendas — some may help, some may get you killed, and some might do both.
Inspired by System Shock 2, Alien Resurrection and Doom 3, the game leans into claustrophobic late-90s 3D horror with affine texture warping, dynamic subdivision, hand-painted vertex color and full-motion CGI cutscenes. The project has been in development in some form since late 2021, and Jensen has described DERELIKT as feeling like a lost 1999 title found on an unmarked disc in an abandoned warehouse and ported to modern platforms in 2026.
A launch trailer accompanies the release, showing off the outpost’s warped corridors and the things waiting inside them. A free demo is available on the Steam store page, alongside the full release, with English, German, Spanish, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese support among nine interface languages. The introductory discount ends November 27, so horror fans looking for a retro-flavored voyage into the dark can grab it at $17.99 USD while the offer lasts.
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