Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded

Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded

Alexander Walford · October 30, 2023 · Horror, Atmospheric, FPS, Survival Horror, Shooter

Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded 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 Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded

✦ AI summary

Investigate a sprawling underground mansion as freelance journalist Kyle East, solving technical puzzles and gunning down horrific enemies in this first-person horror shooter. Uncover the dark secrets of an immortal ancient village while navigating raytraced environments that blur the line between reality and nightmare.

Core Gameplay


Step into a game that perfectly mixes horror with a first-person shooter perspective. Complete technical puzzles, fight your way through tough environments filled with enemies, and find out just what has been happening here.

The Background


You play as Kyle East, a middle-aged freelance journalist who lives a very average life. Your goal is to investigate the Walker family’s mansion located in a small forest in Eastend so that you can write a viral news story that could forever change your career.

The mansion was built by the members of the immortal ancient village that have been living off the grid for several centuries. It is believed that the mansion is much vaster in size than it appears on the outside, spanning deep underground.



Find The Darkness


What will you find in the mansion? Are you alone? Will you be able to find out what has been going on there? The darkness is waiting for you, don’t leave it waiting or it’ll find you. There's plenty to explore, investigate and kill.

Gameplay Features


The game favors core gameplay features such as:

  • Weaponry, such as guns.
  • Inventory management.
  • Story-driven narrative to keep the player engaged.
  • Immersive graphics and environments for added realism.
  • Deep Learning Super Sampling, High Fidelity FX Super Resolution (fallback).
  • Raytraced lighting and reflections.
  • Cloud saving and modification.

Shrieking Darkness: Reloaded — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Apr 18, 2026
[h3]I decided to give the game another try, and I am just as disappointed as I was after my first attempt. [/h3] Yes, the game looks decent. The shaders are heavily overused, which leaves me with only around 40 to 70 FPS, but visually it is not that bad. What bothers me far more is the gameplay. At the beginning, you just walk down a street, only for the game to tell you that your character kept walking straight for another ten minutes and finally reached the house. Then I spent time looking for the entrance, only to discover that I simply had to stand in one specific spot. The controls are also bizarre. Pressing Q instantly turns you around by 180 degrees, while Ctrl makes you lie flat on the floor and completely breaks the camera. Doors are supposed to open with E, but it only works half the time, while looting uses a completely different button, the left mouse button. They could have simply used the left mouse button for everything, but whatever. This feels more like a walking simulator than a proper horror game. Yes, I did not test every chapter, but the gameplay feels so poorly made that the negative reviews are completely justified. The developer has apparently spent two yea…
4 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 8, 2026
Nope.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 11, 2025
"Shrieking Darkness" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game, typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is yet another badly made asset flipped kitbashed first person horror adventure... yawn. This is considered one of the worst on Steam by reviewers, but I have seen much worse. The developer apparently had a tantrum and pulled it from Steam and is trying to sell this for money elsewhere... trying to get YOUR money for someone else's game assets. Never okay. Taking this seriously as a game, it's a plodding, incomplete, unpolished bug riddled mess where you explore a spooky house. Can't get any less original than that! So, the game might look better than you'd expect from an amateur project, but this is because it's partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Very little in this game is truly the crea…
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 6, 2025
Game is moving to GameJolt (whats that? i dont know) Its Free. Get it or Nah.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended May 18, 2026
Has very nice graphics, game is way to dark. had to quite early because i could not get pass the first room. the controls are very bad.
Not recommended Mar 4, 2026
Poorly Optimised And Still Looks Wank. Crashes Constantly, Voices Sound Like The Generic AI ♥♥♥♥ And Does Actually Sell Your Data. Now The CCP Knows Where You Hide Your Hentai

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