Hunter's Moon arrives on PlayStation 5 on October 26, 2026 — October 25 in North America, due to the time-zone difference — as a console exclusive. Announced at the September 3 State of Play, Twin Swans' first game is a first-person historical folk horror set over a single night, and its premise needs no monsters: the danger is people.
Players control Lilith Thorne, a woman accused of witchcraft who must flee through a 17th-century rural English village, its forests and moors, in search of safety. On her trail are the Witchfinder General, the village magistrate and a local huntsman. Combat is not the answer: survival depends on stealth, cunning and listening to what others say.
Listening is the core mechanic
The game's big bet is eavesdropping. Inspired by immersive theatre, the mechanic lets players overhear conversations through the village's windows and doors: warnings, advice, folk songs and clues about sacred items can mean the difference between escaping and being captured. The cast is one of the project's most talked-about points, with more than 100 fully voiced characters living in a village the studio describes as dysfunctional and on the brink, worn down by war and misfortune.
Behind the game is writer-director Alicia Contestabile, who worked as a producer on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. The Twin Swans team includes people whose credits span The Stanley Parable, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Signalis, and the original score is by Resina. Visually, the game leans on hand-crafted stylised art, with characters animated in a way that recalls stop-motion, according to early reviews.
Hunter's Moon is single-player, with no multiplayer modes announced, and is designed as a concentrated experience: one night, one village, one escape. Its inspiration comes from the real history of the English witch hunts, and the question the studio poses is direct: what if the scariest thing is not monsters or magic, but people's own fears and beliefs?
Image credit: Hunter's Moon screenshot, from Twin Swans, via PS4Blog, from a copy provided by the studio.
Sources: Gematsu — First-person historical folk horror game Hunter’s Moon announced for PS5; PlayStation.Blog — Hunter’s Moon; Bloody Disgusting — Cast List Revealed for Folk Horror Adventure Game Hunter’s Moon; PS4Blog — Hunter’s Moon Review
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