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Press release:
November 18, 2024.
The Istanbul-based (Turkey) indie games publisher GameDev.ist and Bursa-based (Turkey) solo developer Cem Boray Yıldırım, today announced with great joy and thrill that their story-driven first-person adventure game “Once Alive“, is now available for PC via Steam.

A demo of the game is also available.

Once Alive is an immersive game set sixteen years after humanity’s extinction by a global virus where players control James, who, alongside his brother, believes they are the last survivors—until an invitation to a survivor base, HaustVille, changes everything.

Determined to find others, the brothers abandon everything and travel to HaustVille, but as they arrive, they sense that something is wrong, leading them to question the village’s mysterious emptiness.

With advanced Unreal Engine 5 technology, players explore HaustVille’s eerie environments, uncovering stories through atmospheric details and discovering an increasingly hostile wilderness where heightened aggression in animals adds to the survival challenge.

Features:

Developed using Unreal Engine 5, utilizing cutting-edge technology for a fully immersive experience.

The entire village is waiting to be explored. And every place has a story to tell.

Discover the past through environmental storytelling, speech echoes, and objects left behind by other survivors.

A hostile world awaits, where the virus has not only decimated the population but made animals more aggressive. Caution is essential in the wilderness.

Experience cinematic cutscenes that intensify the narrative

About GameDev.ist
GameDev.ist was established in Istanbul in 2023 as a publishing company dedicated to supporting independent game developers in production and marketing. Following their debut title Anomaly Agent and the early access release of Inn Tycoon, Once Alive will be the company’s third published game.