A downloadable game

Dying in Dreads is a dark survival horror about everyday life coming apart. You wake up jobless, replaced by AI. A cold assistant on your computer feeds you “advice” as debt and hunger strip away your calm. Every sleep resets the world, but not the consequences. Explore the surroundings, scavenge for food, spend your last pennies on antidepressants. Take care of your mental state—neglect leads to hallucinations or full-blown psychosis, where you’ll have to fight your fears to stay alive. Fail to pay the bills—lose the roof over your head, and without sleep you’ll spiral into psychosis, where the monsters feel as real as the bailiff.

Key features:

- Body and psyche management: HP, stamina, hunger, sleep, toxicity, calm, hygiene, and physiological needs.

- Psychosis: When your fears take control, the world becomes a nightmare—only meds drag you back to the surface.

- Search dumpsters, buildings, rob people to find what keeps you alive.

- Upgrade your character to make them more resistant and better adapted to the new reality.

- Survival economy: bills, debt, bailiff. Sell, pawn, steal—or vanish.

Updated 3 hours ago
Published 7 days ago
StatusIn development
AuthorShining Games
GenreSurvival
TagsAtmospheric, Horror, Psychological Horror, Roguelite

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