06:00
Dawn
The dark pulls back. Count what you lost, check the traps, eat something before it spoils.
Alpha - in development
The island remembers.
A top-down survival horror set on a cursed island. Hunger wears you down, darkness hunts you, and your own mind turns against you.
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I. What is Silent Souls
Survival horror where the dark keeps score.
Silent Souls is a top-down survival horror game in pixel art. You wake on a cursed island with nothing but a red cloak. Every resource, every fire and every hour of daylight decides whether you see the next morning.
Health, hunger and sanity are under constant pressure. Days are short, nights are lethal, seasons turn every twenty days and every fourteenth night the Blood Moon rises. The island is generated anew for every run - forests, rivers, highlands, caves and villages that remember what you did.
One lifeDeath is final. When you die, your world ends with you - the island, the camp you built, every day you survived.
What lies at its heart - and beyond the edge of the sea - remains to be uncovered.
- Genre
- Survival horror
- View
- Top-down, pixel art
- Death
- Ends the world
- Platform
- PC - Steam
- Release
- 2027
- Made by
- Solo developer
Every day on the island
Explore
Gather
Craft
Build
Survive the night
II. The Island
One island. Never the same twice.
Forests, wastes, rivers running to the Sea of Silence. Every run, the island is born again.
The Black Forest
Old trees, a river and one window that is still lit. Someone lives here. Something visits.
The Corruption
The ground grows crystals and the trees forget their color. Things grow faster here. So does madness.
The Crimson
Red leaves, red grass, bones in the moss. Nobody remembers who named it. Everybody remembers why.
The Villages
Lanterns along the road, a bell at dusk, doors that will not open at night. Earn their trust - or their fear.
The Old Altars
Someone still lights the candles. The stone is warm. It is asking for something.
The Sea of Silence
The island ends at the water. The water does not end. Sail too far and something notices.
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Highlands with only two ways up, caves beneath the sinkholes, and places no map remembers.
A day on the island
Ten minutes of light. Then comes the unknown.
12:00
Day
Gather, explore, trade, build. A full day lasts ten minutes - never enough to do everything.
18:00
The bell
The village bell rings. Doors close, lanterns are lit along the road. If you are far from fire - run.
20:00
Night
Light or die. Sanity drains in the dark, and the things that sleep by day begin to hunt.
Every 7 days
The Dream
Every seventh night sleep takes you somewhere else. What you find there does not stay there.
Every 14 nights
Blood Moon
They come in numbers. Villages fall if nobody stands with them.
Every 20 days
Seasons
Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Each one changes what grows, what spoils and what comes out at night.
III. The Three Wounds
Everything here wants something from you.
Hunger
Forage, hunt, fish and cook. Food rots, tools break, and winter does not forgive empty stores. The island gives, but it always keeps count.
Darkness
When the sun goes down, the island changes hands. Build fire, raise walls, light lanterns along the road. Some nights the moon turns red.
Madness
Your mind is a resource too. Lose it and the world starts to show you things. Some are lies. Some are doors that were always there.
Deeper than it looks
An island that lives without you.
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Craft
Lay out recipes on a grid, from a torch to a lantern, a spear or a storage chest.
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Build a camp
Fire, palisades, a bedroll, drying racks. A place to rest - and to save.
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Fight like it matters
Stamina, dodge rolls, perfect parries. Every beast telegraphs - if you watch.
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Fish the dark water
Rivers, lakes and the sea hold more than fish. Build a raft and go further.
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Alchemy
Grind, mix, brew. Some recipes you discover only by trying.
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Grow and tend
Dig up plants, mind the soil and the season. Crows and Blood Moons do not care.
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Villages
Trade, help, defend - or betray. Trust and fear spread from house to house.
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Sleep and dreams
Rest heals the body. What you see when you close your eyes is another matter.
Co-op for two
Do not walk into the dark alone.
Play alone or invite one friend through Steam. One island, one fire, one shared fear. Split the work - one of you keeps the fire alive, the other goes where nobody wants to go.
Two players
One of you raises the world, the other joins from a Steam invite.
One shared island
Same map, same resources, same dangers. What one of you cuts down is gone for both.
A camp built together
Build side by side, share the stores and keep watch over the fire in turns.
The night hunts the nearest
What comes out of the dark goes for whoever stands closer. One of you always does.
Playing solo remains a complete experience.
At the fire
The fire burns brighter for two. The night does not get any shorter.
Day 1 - 19:58
The sun goes down.
The island changes hands.
Light a fire. Now.
IV. The Night
They walk when the fire dies.
Wolves are the least of your problems. Some of what hunts here is not ready to be shown.
Move your light to see what waits in the dark
Grey Wolf
Hunts in packs. Circles. Waits.
Shade
Comes when the light is gone. Or when your mind is.
Husk
Once a priest. Now a sermon of rot.
Bloodhound
It has no skin. It does not need one.
???
It heard you.
???
The water is too still.
???
Not yet.
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Meet more of the beings that dwell on the island.
Every fourteenth night the moon bleeds.
What you carry
Nine slots. Choose well.
Food spoils, wounds fester, and some things should never have been picked up. Hover or tap to inspect.
Pack
Worn
Sanity
The less you trust your eyes, the more you see.
Darkness, monsters and cold water wear your mind down. Drag the slider to see what happens as sanity falls.
100 - 70%
Clear-headed
The world is what it seems. Enjoy it while it lasts.
70 - 35%
Uneasy
Shapes move at the edge of sight. The wind starts to sound like words.
35 - 15%
Hallucinations
Some of what you see is not there. Some of what attacks you is.
below 15%
Insight
At the very edge, the island stops hiding: secret paths, buried caches, cracks in the world. Is it worth the price?
V. Teaser
Some souls never rest.
Best with sound
Alpha - in developmentVI. Glimpses
Postcards from the island
Captured in an early alpha build. Everything you see is work in progress and may change.
VII. Chronicle
News from the island
Development updates, new footage and news from the island.
First letter from the island
Who is building Silent Souls, what the island is, and why your first night there may be your last.
Read : First letter from the islandThe island remembers
The first page of the Chronicle. What Silent Souls is, and what it is not.
Read : The island remembers
VIII. The Vigil
Be there when the island wakes.
Join the Vigil and follow Silent Souls on its way to release in 2027. Subscribers will be the first to see new footage from the game, long before it appears anywhere else. No spam.
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- New footage from the game
- Development updates