Athanasia, the indie horror game that traps you in a mysterious facility full of dinosaurs, is launching in the ideal horror-game window: just before Halloween. GameSpot can exclusively reveal Athanasia’s release date; it comes to PC on October 19 via Steam Early Access.
In Athanasia, players find themselves trapped in a South American research facility swarmed by dinosaurs that have somehow traveled through time to the present day in the game’s story. Though the art style recalls something quite like Dino Crisis, Capcom’s long-dormant dino horror series, the specifics of the gameplay are actually more surprising.
Influenced by System Shock, the first-person Athanasia also has immersive-sim leanings, as seen in the game’s trailer below, where the player can creatively get themselves out of a jam by experimenting with their environment. Of course, if it’s really an immersive sim, players will be able to flush the toilets. It’s wait-and-see on that one.
That’s not the only wrinkle, though. Athanasia also teases a different enemy type hidden from all of the game’s trailers so far. It seems something worse than dinosaurs is lurking.
Athanasia launches on October 19 from Momentum Games, with the horror-focused Black Lantern Collective publishing.