DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE

GAME JUICE STUDIOS · October 20, 2022 · Horror, Survival Horror, Supernatural, Psychological Horror, Psychological

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive78% · 18
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DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE price

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE is a horror game in which you are tasked to observe haunted locations, log supernatural events and eradicate any potential paranormal threats.

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE is the prelude to DEATHWATCH and gives you access to play the first level as many times as you'd like.

You'll need to keep a keen eye on every camera and even your present location for any supernatural occurences. Possible events vary from Audio to Victims and paranormal sightings, plus many more. Using your computer systems you must log each event to gather enough data to eliminate the entity, before it eliminates you!

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE puts you in a vulnerable state where your only chance of survival is to succesfully log enough supernatural events in order to survive the night. You need to constantly be aware of your own surroundings because you may not be the only one observing.

Full Twitch integration, view your live chat in game while your viewers observe with you and potentially disrupt or even aid your playthrough.

The location contains 100's of events so no two playthroughs are ever the same.

DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jun 19, 2025
[h1] Observe your surroundings and check your cameras. When you see or hear anything unusual - mark this in your ghost hunting software and get number which you mark thus excluding it from the combination. Your goal is to find the right frequency before ghost catches you. The more clues you gather the more easy it is to break the code and you only have one try. You gonna see different anomalies like blinking lights, voices, markings or objects disappearing. Some of them will mess with your cameras. Overall neat idea but execution leaves something unfinished. Finishing level is quite challenging. Game have some issues with low framerate in the menus. Overall feels basic. More like a novelty than actual game with reliable gameplay. Still worth checking out if you like FNAF like games. [/h1]
12 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 28, 2025
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8 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 9, 2023
[h1]Before I played DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
2 found this helpful
Recommended Jun 21, 2023
VERY SCARY for a demo, this is really well done. i have to say, the tension that arises from monitoring cameras to see for anomalies when you don't even remember exactly how everything is meant to look is truly something. i was on the edge of my seat, and with the added audio triggers i was SCARED. the jumpscare when you get attacked from behind could be a bit scarier though! it's super slow and underwhelming. i suggest one tries the demo before buying the full game because these sort of memory games may not be for everyone! the game brightness is super low on default and many visual changes are quite subtle in my opinion so it's quite stressful indeed
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 19, 2025
"DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "DEATHWATCH". DEATHWATCH is a low key Unity asset flip, a basic Five Nights at Freddy's ripoff where, you guessed it, you monitor your cameras and do some platespinning to avoid getting jumpscared. Needless to say, it was a dismal failure here on Steam Direct. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not DEATHWATCH, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "DEATHWATCH - PRELUDE" too. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $7 USD on buying DEATHWATCH, and I don't recommend you do that either. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube…
Recommended Apr 3, 2024
Good game, worth trying.

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