Immortality developer Sam Barlow teases 2 new projects on Steam, and one of them is survival horror

Sam Barlow's studio Half Mermaid, the developer of Her Story, Telling Lies, and Immortality—one of highest-reviewed games of 2022—are teasing a pair of mysterious new projects on Steam called, mysteriously, Project C and Project D.

The newly-arrived Steam pages for both new games are heavily redacted. The description for Project C opens with a biblical quote—«For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known»—and then teases «the new cinematic» something that promises something «for the first time ever in a videogame.»

Project D, on the other hand, is a survival horror something—game, perhaps—whose description includes the words «1983,» «nurse,» «nightmare,» and the ever-useful «be careful.» Oh, and «something bad,» in case there was any question on that front.

Project C, with its emphasis on «cinematic» sounds like what we'd expect from Barlow and Half Mermaid, whose previous projects are FMV mystery-thrillers. Immortality, the studio's most recent release, is literally about a film star who made three movies, none of them released, before disappearing—again, mysteriously.

Project D may be more of a departure, though. Tags on the Steam page include «thriller» and «story rich,» but also clearly denote the game as a third-person survival-horror joint, something Half Mermaid hasn't previously taken on. SteamDB actually lists Project D as Doors, which is not especially insightful: The Steam description makes two references to «some doors,» and one of the images currently on the page is of a door, with an ominous red light shining through it.

Speaking of those teaser images, they're definitely evocative but not particularly informative:

But this is how Barlow rolls. In 2020 he teased Immortality with a code name—Project Ambrosio—and a heavily-redacted Steam page that included weird images and a quick, glitchy video clip. Intriguing but not especially useful, although given Barlow's history of