Some games arrive with a release date. DERELIKT arrives with a cover story. The new sci-fi survival horror from solo developer Visuwyg — Philipp Jensen — and publisher Hyperstrange is out now on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for $19.99, and it presents itself as a lost game from 1999, supposedly found on an unmarked disc and finished more than two decades late. It is, of course, a brand-new game — one that has been in development since late 2021 — but the pitch tells you everything about the experience it is chasing: the warped geometry, the fog and the dread of a PlayStation-era horror game, rebuilt with modern touches.
You play an outside contractor sent to the Von Neumann Outpost, a remote station where Excavation Team Delta has gone missing. Your job is to find out what happened to them. What you find is a station in the dark: failing systems, corridors that feel wrong, and survivors who are still alive — but who do not all tell the same story. Trust is a core theme of DERELIKT, and the game asks you to decide who to believe while the outpost falls apart around you.
That setup puts DERELIKT squarely in the lineage of System Shock 2, Alien Resurrection and Doom 3 — the lonely-station horror games where the environment is the enemy as much as anything living in it. It is old-school survival horror in the truest sense: tense combat, scarce comfort and an atmosphere that does most of the work. The PS1-style presentation is deliberate rather than accidental — warped geometry, heavy grain and low-poly dread — and the launch trailer sells it in about ninety seconds.
What is in DERELIKT?
DERELIKT is a first-person sci-fi survival horror game set entirely aboard the Von Neumann Outpost. Combat mixes alien and traditional weapons, and the game leans into the survival-horror fundamentals: managing what you have, choosing when to fight, and reading a space before you walk into it. The outpost itself is the star — dark halls, flickering systems and the sense that something went very wrong here long before you arrived.
The people you meet matter as much as the monsters. DERELIKT features more than a dozen NPCs, each with their own secrets and agendas, and their stories do not line up. That is the game’s central tension: the survivors are your only source of information about what happened to Excavation Team Delta, and you cannot take any of them at face value. It is a small, focused idea, and it fits the game’s scale — this is a solo developer’s game, not a sprawling open world, and its confidence comes from knowing exactly what it wants to be.
Horror has been having a moment on Proven Gamer’s pages lately — from Resident Evil Requiem Sweeps the Golden Joystick Awards — Full Winners List for 2026 to The Warden’s Origin Story Gets a Date — Cronos: Lazarus DLC Launches December 3 for $9.99 — and DERELIKT slots into that conversation from a different angle: not a blockbuster sequel, but a lovingly faked artifact. Proven Gamer has talked about the genre’s roots before, too, in the New York Snark Exchange Episode 10: System Shock 2, and DERELIKT is clearly a game made by someone who knows that history cold.
The timing is part of the appeal. A short, atmospheric horror game landing in mid-November — just as the nights get long — is an easy recommendation for anyone who likes their horror grimy and low-fi. At $19.99, with a launch discount in effect, it is priced like the compact experience it is. It is available now on Steam for PC, and on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Watch the DERELIKT launch trailer
The launch trailer is embedded below.
DERELIKT is out now on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S for $19.99. You can read the full announcement on GamesPress.
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