Jamie C
Solo developer Cara Cadaver and DreadXP have officially announced that VILE: Exhumed will be unleashing its psychological terror later this year, backed by the publisher’s XP Ultra program. A chilling deep dive into “parasocial obsession” gone horribly, irreversibly wrong. VILE: Exhumed aims to not just be a game but an interactive descent into the fractured mind.
If you’ve ever fallen down a late-night rabbit hole of forgotten forums, cryptic files, and unsettling lost media, VILE: Exhumed is a game that’s about to consume you whole. A spiritual successor to the eerie, lo-fi horror experiences that thrive on unease, this game will take players into the decaying remnants of a decades-old computer, where the scattered thoughts of a deeply disturbed individual await.
At the heart of the mystery lies the retirement of adult film actress Candy Corpse, a name whispered across forum posts, buried in corrupted hard drives, and woven through old emails. VILE: Exhumed isn’t just about uncovering a digital cold case, it’s about peeling back the layers of obsession, trauma and the horrors that lurk in the spaces between reality and the internet’s collective subconscious.
Check out the trailer here:
Indie developer Cara Cadaver first unleashed VILE as a personal project, and its prototype—released on itch.io in 2024—struck a nerve. A brutal reflection of human horror rather than just supernatural scares, it resonated with players who recognized the truths buried within its unsettling narrative.
“VILE is a page ripped straight from my journal,” says Cadaver. “I hope it’s as uncomfortable and gut-churning to play as it was for me to make. Watching people connect with the prototype on such a deep level was surreal. This expanded version has even more of the emotional and literal guts of the original. I can’t wait for players to untangle them—and maybe rearrange them into something even more disturbing.”
Cadaver, the founder of Final Girl Games, is carving out a space in horror where personal storytelling and psychological dread collide. VILE: Exhumed is not just a game—it’s a descent into the terrifyingly human, the kind of experience that lingers long after you’ve shut the computer down… if you can…and I am certainly excited to see if I can.
Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280010/VILE_Exhumed/
