What happens if the game is genuinely listening? Not reacting to a trigger — listening, keeping what it hears, and eventually using it. Everything we make comes back to that.
Decaylight Studios is independent and small. We write the code, model the assets, cut the audio, and answer the email. There is no publisher setting a date, which is the only reason the build status page on this site can be honest.
Our first game is Signal Rot: four-player co-op horror set in 1987 beneath the Qattara Depression, where a buried archive hunts the crew by the sound of their real voices and slowly gets better at reproducing them. It runs on Unity 6.3 LTS with FishNet and Steamworks.NET, targeting Windows on Steam at €4.99.
The name is the thesis. Decaylight is the last usable light coming off something that is already going. It is what a resin torch gives you three hundred metres down, and it is roughly how much certainty you get to work with in one of our games.
Anyone can script a loud noise at the end of a corridor. We are interested in creatures that only act on what they could genuinely sense, so that the tension comes from the player's own behaviour rather than from a trigger volume they will learn in one run.
Our build status page lists the unfinished half as well as the finished one. Features that do not work stay disabled in the game and unclaimed on this site. We would rather be believed later than hyped now.
Grain, fog, warm torchlight and analog instability are presentation. They are never an excuse for weak modelling. We removed our own PS1-era asset limits when we realised they were letting bad geometry hide behind a style.
Someone throws the torch in a panic and hits a teammate. Someone announces that they know exactly how this monster works and dies five seconds later. We build the straight man. The crew brings the jokes.
Short list, kept short on purpose. It is easier to hold five lines than a manifesto.