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Dead Format

80% positive of 163 Steam reviews

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Released
2025
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam

Made by Katanalevy. Published by Oro Interactive.

About the game

Dead Format is a survival horror game set in iconic film eras. It's 1990s Scotland, and your brother has gone missing after becoming obsessed with a mysterious new VHS format. Follow his trail through the tapes and uncover why the government wants to ban "Video Ghastlies".

Tagged by players

  • Survival Horror
  • Psychological Horror
  • Horror
  • Survival
  • 1990's
  • Mystery
  • 1980s
  • Story Rich
  • Gothic
  • Dark
  • Action
  • Atmospheric

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    I started out loving this game until reaching the point where a pursuer creature follows you through almost the entire game. It made exploration and looking for items/clues a major chore. The game itself ran and looked fantastic, but the stealth system where you'd have to duck into a hiding spot constantly got to the point where I felt like I was making no progress or was missing things due to this factor. If the…

    5 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Dead Format An Immersive Film Experience To DIE For! I remember Dead Format popping up on my radar back when it dropped last December and honestly.. I was a little too scared to buy and play it. I love a good horror game don't get me wrong, but the trailer had me thinking this would be something that would scare my ass off. Most of the time, I'd stray away from something like that myself and sit down to a watch some…

    5.2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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