Junkfish Limited has announced Wilderdark, a first-person survival horror game developed by Team Junkfish, for PC via Steam in 2026. A free demo will be available on Steam, with the full release planned for later in the year. A cinematic teaser trailer was also revealed.
The game is set on an unnatural island where the local dinosaurs and surrounding vegetation have been corrupted by an ectoparasite of unknown origin. The protagonist works as a field operative for an organization chasing the secret of immortality, and is dispatched to the island to study what is happening there. A crash landing leaves them with almost no equipment to start. From there, players have to catalogue what is living on the island, gather biological samples, and trace what happened to the earlier expeditions that disappeared there. The protagonist’s parents led one of those expeditions. Apex predators stalk the island, and the protagonist has to conserve their supplies and avoid making noise in order to move through their hunting grounds. The investigations revolve around environmental clues, photographic evidence and specimens, and scavenged tools. The ectoparasites are presented as one of the central mysteries.

Ellie Gibbs, Senior Marketing Manager at Junkfish, framed the project as the studio returning to a territory that its fanbase has long wanted to see it revisit, pointing back to Junkfish’s 2015 debut Monstrum.

We’ve been holding onto Wilderdark as a well-kept secret for over three years, and we’re super excited to finally shine a spotlight on it. After years of quietly building it behind-the-scenes, it feels amazing to share something that marks our return to the kind of horror our community has been asking for. The demo is just the beginning…step in next week and see what’s been lurking in the dark.

Wilderdark is available to wishlist now on Steam, with the free demo scheduled for May 7.