TUMULUS

This game aims to blend dungeon crawler and survival horror genres into a new exiting type of horror.

Visual inspiration comes from 1980s movies.

He came to with a gasp — lungs burning, heart pounding like a signal flare in hostile territory. Beneath him, the earth pulsed — wet, dark, and wrong. A tree loomed over him, its bark split like torn flesh, its roots already clawing under his skin.

He screamed. Not from pain — not yet — but from the revulsion of something alive and foreign claiming him like soil claims a corpse. With frantic strength, he tore at the roots. Flesh ripped. Blood followed. But he got them out. Most of them.

Breathing hard, he slumped back, dizzy, his fingers shaking. The forest around him didn’t whisper — it listened.

A name. A purpose. It floated to the surface of his mind like driftwood after a shipwreck.

He had a mission. He thinks he remembers it.
Not the who. Not the why. Just one thought — go forward.

He got up. Legs unsteady, shoes soaked in blood and mud. A pistol at his side — scratched, cold and real. A flashlight in his other hand — flickering, like it doubted the point of its own existence.

"You and me both", he thought.

And then he saw it.

A castle.

Its dark towers didn’t reach for the sky, they pushed it away. The stones bled dampness. The hollow windows stared back.

This was the place.

His hand tightened on the pistol, but not out of hope. He didn't believe that metal and gunpowder would mean anything here — not against this, nor against what's inside.

Still, it was something to hold on to. Something that hadn’t yet tried to grow inside him.

And sometimes, that was enough...

• 3rd person survival horror.
• Great emphasis of exploration, traps and enemy encounters.
• Rich captivating story from a book author that takes inspiration from Franz Kafka novels and "Thief" game series in terms of worldbuiling, and takes gameplay inspiration from Silent Hill, Evil Within and Alone in the Dark
• Genre: Gothic horror, cosmic horror.