Press kit
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Factsheet
| Developer | WrathEye Studios (solo developer) |
|---|---|
| Game | Beyond Return |
| Genre | Bodycam / found-footage psychological horror |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 5 |
| Platform | PC (Windows), on Steam |
| Release | 2027 |
| Price | To be announced |
| Press contact | deathawaits@wratheye.com |
| Website | wratheye.com/beyond-return |
Description
Beyond Return is a first-person horror game seen entirely through a police body camera. You play Adrian Mahalean, a Romanian officer sent to a car that has gone off the road by a forest on DN1. The driver is missing, and the only way he could have gone is into the trees.
The game starts slow and grounded and does not stay that way. It leans on the Romanian countryside at night, on the radio, on Adrian's own phone, and on how far the player trusts what the camera records.
History
Beyond Return is made by one person under the name WrathEye Studios. It started from two things I kept coming back to: found-footage horror of the Marble Hornets sort, where you are mostly just watching badly framed video and getting uneasy, and the folklore of the Romanian countryside I grew up visiting.
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