CAPTURED

About CAPTURED

CAPTURED is an anomaly-hunting horror game by Puck Games (credited on Steam to Puck Redflix), released on Steam in October 2024. Perp Games brought it to PlayStation 5 on September 12, 2025 and to Xbox Series X|S on October 7, 2025. The store calls it an analog horror game, and everything is seen through a camcorder with a VHS look, a timestamp and a battery meter.

You play a boy who spots something strange in his bedroom and ends up stuck in a loop in his own home. The light switches and windows are gone and the lights are out. The hallway is procedurally generated, the rooms keep changing, and leaving the house only brings you back into the same hallway.

To break the loop you use your memory. Each loop holds up to three anomalies, and you never know how many: a TV switched on, an extra toilet, a cabinet on the ceiling, or a door that opens onto somewhere impossible. Zoom in with the camera and pick the type: object, electronic, lighting, water, missing room or deformed room. Scanning drains the camera's battery, and a missed or misnamed anomaly wipes the camera's memory. Capture 13 correctly and you escape.

What sets it apart from The Exit 8 and its kin is the company. Entities can turn up at any time, and they are not anomalies. GameSpew describes a rabbit you must not take your eyes off, a thin grinning figure behind doors that you must look away from, one that chases you and one that lurks in the shadows. Staying too long in one loop gives away where you are, so you use your flashlight, camera and the doors to survive each of them.

A run takes about half an hour, and multiple difficulty levels and an endless mode, where you spot as many anomalies as you can, are there for later. It suits players who liked The Exit 8 or the Observation Duty games and want the same spot-the-difference dread with real frights added. GameSpew called it genuinely scary and its main fault that it is over fast.

How to play CAPTURED

1. Walk the dark hallway of your home in first person with your flashlight.
2. When something looks different from before, zoom in on it with the camcorder.
3. Choose the anomaly type: object, electronic, lighting, water, missing room or deformed room.
4. Find every anomaly in the loop, up to three, without misnaming one, or the camera's memory is wiped.
5. Deal with each entity by its own rule, using the flashlight, camera and doors, and do not stay in one loop too long.
6. Capture 13 anomalies correctly to escape.

Tips

• Learn the rooms on your first loops; you can only spot changes in a place you remember.
• Scan only what you are fairly sure of: every scan drains the battery, and with no battery left you cannot capture anything.
• A loop can hold one, two or three anomalies, so check every room before you move on.
• Keep moving; lingering in one loop gives away your position.
• Each entity works differently: GameSpew warns that the rabbit gets you if you look away from it, while the figure behind doors must not be stared at.

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