Gloomwood

Gloomwood is an upcoming first-person stealth survival horror video game developed by Dillon Rogers and David Szymanski and published by New Blood Interactive. The player controls an unnamed doctor who makes his way through the Victorian style titular city. The game features stealth and exploratory gameplay, along with utilizing weapons (melee and firearms) against enemies. The game is heavily inspired by the Thief series of games, especially its first two: The Dark Project (1998) and The Metal Age (2000). It has also been favorably compared to Dishonored, Bloodborne, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, Resident Evil, BioShock, and Deathloop. It has also been referred to as an immersive sim. Having been announced in June 2020, Gloomwood was released via early access on September 5, 2022, after a delay from its initial August 16, 2022 date. The pre-release builds have received praise for the atmosphere, tone, world, level design and gameplay, but has been criticized for the unfinished elements and difficulty.