Derelikt launches on Steam today, 13 November. The
Steam listing
has carried that date since publisher Hyperstrange locked it in on 21 October,
and
Gematsu
reported the same alongside a vaguer promise of PS5 and Xbox Series versions
“at a later date”. No console date has been given.
It is a narrative retro FPS from developer Visuwyg, a single-player survival
horror set on the Von Neumann Outpost, a research station bolted into a
derelict asteroid orbiting Saturn. The pitch names its influences openly:
System Shock 2, Doom 3 and Alien Resurrection. Expect scarce ammo, a tight
inventory, environmental puzzles, and more than a dozen NPCs who each tell you
a different version of what went wrong, according to the
August press release.
The look is full PS1: affine texture wobble, dithering, vertex-painted
lighting, and CGI cutscenes in the period style. Controls are modern.
A free demo has been on Steam since 8 October, covering three chapters out of
order.
Game Rant
put its user rating above 90% positive in late October. That is a demo, not
the full game, so treat it as a mood reading rather than a score.
Now the gaps. There is no price on the Steam page as we write this, and none
of the outlets we checked have one either. Hyperstrange has not said how long
the game runs. Steam lists Windows only, English only, with no Steam Deck
verification yet, so Linux and Deck players are waiting on word.
Who Visuwyg is remains fuzzy.
Game Rant
calls them a Polish solo developer; other coverage has said German. The press
release dateline is Warsaw, but that is Hyperstrange’s base, and the
itch.io page
credits Visuwyg as art director with at least one contributor on the dialogue
system. Until someone official says otherwise, “small team, publisher in
Warsaw” is the safe version.
Hyperstrange’s track record here is Elderborn and Postal: Brain Damaged, so a
sharp, short retro shooter is well within its range. The project itself goes
back years as an itch.io prototype built to work out how to recreate the PS1
look, which is why the dithering looks right rather than filtered-on.
What we think: the PSX horror shelf is crowded with walking sims, and a proper
System Shock-shaped FPS with that paint job is the gap. Whether Derelikt fills
it depends on the full game holding the demo’s tension for however many hours
it turns out to be, and we will know that figure by tonight.
