Entropic Decay

Entropic Decay is a fast-paced, slow-burn horror and action FPS set in a world overrun by a pathogen. You awaken in a facility with only hazy memories and travel through a world now familiar mainly to the mutated, searching for a place free from decay and entropy. The story unfolds through environmental details, notes, audio logs and data entries as you piece together the collapse of society and the scientific ambition behind it.

A world consumed

In the future, a signal leads people to a small meteor and its crash site, where they discover a mineral containing a living pathogen. Experiments reveal that it causes aggressive cell growth in living and dead organisms. Rapid mutation produces a rabies-like disease, turning infected beings into hive-minded aggressors that attack anything uninfected.

The pathogen spreads across the world, leaving civilisation an overgrown, decaying husk. Plant life flourishes, while human-made things return to nature in twisted forms. The last bastion of humanity is ruled by an elite that sends soldiers to kill anyone not in uniform. Military death squads roam in packs, exchanging their humanity for food and protection from the pathogen.

Combat and movement

Combat arenas and horror sequences are balanced with quieter stretches between enemy encounters. You can use time dilation to outmanoeuvre enemies, dodge projectiles including bullets, dash in multiple directions and double-jump to reach otherwise inaccessible places. Firearms use a projectile-based ballistics system rather than hit-scan shots.

Weapons have distinct impacts, and dynamic dismemberment and blood-and-gore effects let you blast enemies apart. Explosive barrels can also turn the fight into a bloody spectacle.

Enemies and tactics

Soldiers react to grenades, listen for you, take cover, flee and throw grenades of their own. Mutated enemies hunt in packs, hear you running and roam the area where they last saw you. The military shoots the mutated on sight, but even its well-trained soldiers can struggle against them.

There are over ten kinds of mutated enemies, from agile spider mutants and dogs to hulking tanks wielding lead pipes. You can distract enemies by throwing objects, draw them closer with a whistle to set up an ambush, or sneak past and avoid combat. The military and mutated respond to your actions, creating tactical options that use the environment.

Puzzles and the environment

Puzzles and narrative details break up combat sequences. Physics interactions let you solve environmental puzzles, mislead enemies by throwing objects, or arrange explosives around the environment to set a trap for an unsuspecting foe.