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Co-op Survival Horror Heist Game ‘Dark Hours’ Hits Early Access on October 24 [Trailer]
Interested in checking out more co-op Survival Horror gaming this Halloween? Piece of Cake Studios has you covered, announcing their upcoming title Dark Hours will launch in Early Access on Steam on October 24. And if you’re the “try before you buy” type, a demo is also available.
Dark Hours has you and up to three of your friends play as thieves aiming to pull off a daring heist inside of an auction house. However, when your break-in is disrupted by a supernatural event, you and your team end up trapped in the building with an evil entity. Your new objective is to survive, explore and cooperate (or if you choose, betray) to find a way out.
The Early Access release will include five monsters with their own unique abilities, one mission type “The Heist” with 10 different contracts, the core gameplay loop of a Heist night, a subset of procedurally-generated maps, and multiple gameplay items to unlock.
Piece of Cake Studios aims to provide regular updates for the Early Access version of Dark Hours that will bring more content and new features. The current Early Access plan is to get to a full release “within 6 to 12 months,” which will be reliant on community feedback. The developer has also provided a roadmap for Early Access, detailing what to expect during the development period.
After giving fans a taste of the game earlier this year, Game Pop Studio’s debut title They Will Come dropped a brand new trailer during the Future Games Show, alongside with confirming a release date of Summer 2026 on Steam. For those who don’t know, the game is a cinematic steampunk horror adventure directed by Jeff Troutman – an award-winning Art Director with over 30 years of experience at studios including Midway Games and Petroglyph.
The game is set aboard The Endeavor, a vast airship and manufacturing site for hundreds of powerful automatons, and home to eleven-year-old Benjamin and his family of inventors. When crow-masked cultists known as the Wretched Ones seize the ship and take his family hostage, Benjamin refuses to give in. Armed with a slingshot and the hope that the dormant giant robot Talus is still somewhere in the hangar below, he sets out to take back everything that has been taken from him.
They Will Come is played from a close, cinematic over-the-shoulder perspective, placing players inside the tension of every encounter as they explore the Endeavor’s hangars, catwalks, maintenance tunnels, and observation decks – all hostile territory. Staying hidden is the only reliable path to survival: use shadows, environmental puzzles, and a scattered army of small automatons called Embots to keep one step ahead of the Wretched Ones. Talus – enormous and powerful but drained of his energy cells – needs Benjamin as much as Benjamin needs him; restore his power and the dynamic shifts, putting the hunters on the back foot.
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