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Necrophosis

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Wake billions of years after the universe died, in a world of decay.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Stores: Steam, GOG
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (89% of 953 reviews); 4.4 of 5 on the PlayStation Store (146 ratings)
Length: about 3 hours
Players: 1
Made by: Dragonis Ares, Adonis Brosteanu
Released: 2025

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What frightens You wake in a dead universe where a curse called Necrophosis rots everything it touches: deserts of bone, towers grown from skeletal limbs and decayed gods, explored to narrated poems while you solve the puzzles that lead you deeper into its macabre story.
Content: body horror, blood, violence.

Necrophosis is a first-person horror puzzle adventure in a surreal, macabre world. Billions of years after the universe met its end, you wake in a realm ruled by death and a curse that rots everything, and explore its grotesque deserts, solving puzzles as narrated poems tell its story. There is nothing to fight.

About Necrophosis

Necrophosis is a first-person horror adventure by Dragonis Ares and Adonis Brosteanu, the team behind The Shore, published by Dragonis Games and released on Steam on 25 April 2025. On 28 May 2026 PQube brought it to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S as Necrophosis: Full Consciousness, the base game together with its expansion, Subconsciousness.

Billions of years after the universe met its demise, you awaken in a realm where death reigns supreme, but even death may die. Necrophosis, the curse that plagues this world, inflicts decay on everything it touches, and its characters, infected by the curse, are the very picture of decay. You look down and see a skeletal frame and dead flesh of your own.

The world itself is the horror: deserts of bone, graveyards of giant statues, towers and gates that look grown rather than built, in dust-orange light that the art borrows from H. R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński. Each area is a wide open space you search for the objects its puzzles need. Some puzzles have you leave your body and take over another creature, from a lumbering giant to something small and spider-like.

There are no enemies to fight and little gore. The dread comes from the scale of what you meet, decayed elder gods and tortured souls, and from a story told in narrated poems about the end of creation. Reviewers praise the art and the writing and find the item hunting repetitive, and few find it truly frightening.

It suits players who like strange, slow, artful horror in the vein of Scorn, built on imagery and ideas rather than chases or fights.

How to play Necrophosis

Buy it on Steam or GOG for Windows, or as Necrophosis: Full Consciousness on PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S.
Explore each area of the dead world in first person and look for the objects it hides.
Use what you find on the altars, mechanisms and creatures around you to solve each area's puzzle; some ask you to possess another body.
Listen to the narrations and poems to piece together what happened to this universe.

Screenshots

A desert graveyard of giant bones, gallows and tombstones under an orange sky, below a bone-like tower holding a glowing green orb

An orange desert graveyard with a giant hooded skeletal statue and tombstones, a bone-spine tool in the player's hand

A giant creature of bone and flesh with a ribbed open mouth looms over orange sand, a severed head with exposed brain in front of it

A tall, stilt-legged horned creature in an orange canyon lined with giant hooded statues covering their faces

A bone-filled tomb with a skeletal figure in a wall alcove, pots and spilled blood, a red eyeball in the player's hand

A red-lit stone stairway with glowing arches, a gaunt creature with glowing orange eyes peering from behind a wall

A glowing blue ring like a black hole over a dark field of glossy biomechanical bones, a clawed hand reaching up from the debris

Tips

Search every nook: the game rarely tells you what to look for, and items are easy to miss against the near monochrome sand.
If you are stuck, go back over places you have already crossed; players most often lose time over one overlooked item.
Play with sound on; the voiced characters and narration carry the story.

Questions

How long is Necrophosis?

About three hours for the main story, by HowLongToBeat's players' times; finding everything takes little longer.

Is there combat in Necrophosis?

No. There are no enemies to fight; you explore, collect items and solve puzzles.

Is Necrophosis on PS5 or Xbox?

Yes. Necrophosis: Full Consciousness came out on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on 28 May 2026, with the Subconsciousness expansion included. On Xbox it is a Play Anywhere game, so it also plays on PC.

Is Necrophosis like Scorn?

It shares a grotesque, organic world of bone and flesh, but it has no fights and much less gore; its focus is puzzles and a narrated story.

Who made Necrophosis?

Dragonis Ares and Adonis Brosteanu, who also made The Shore. Dragonis Games publishes it on PC and PQube on consoles.