Wilderdark is a stealth horror game with infected dinosaurs — and a demo lands May 7

If you've grown tired of zombies, Wilderdark has a different proposition: an entire island ecosystem — dinosaurs, plants, everything — taken over by an ectoparasite, and you stuck in the middle with almost no gear. UK and Singapore-based studio Team Junkfish announced the first-person stealth survival horror game this week, with a free demo hitting Steam on May 7, 2026, ahead of a full PC launch later in the year.

The studio behind it

Team Junkfish made its name with Monstrum in 2015, a procedurally generated horror game that built a small but devoted following. Wilderdark is the studio's deliberate return to the genre — three years in development and, until now, kept entirely under wraps. Marketing manager Ellie Gibbs put it plainly: "We've been working hard on the project and are now ready to share a game that brings us back to the horror our community has been asking for."

Stealth over combat

The setup is pulpy but effective. You're sent to a remote island by a shadowy organisation hunting a cure for mortality. Your parents were part of an earlier expedition that went missing there. The dinosaurs roaming the island are dangerous, but the real threat is the ectoparasite controlling them — and the flora. You arrive with minimal equipment, limited resources, and no real fighting ability.

Survival depends on staying hidden, documenting what you find with a video camera (think Outlast's night-vision mechanic, applied to prehistoric wildlife), and scavenging enough to craft basic tools. According to Gematsu, any careless move risks a dinosaur encounter that's nearly impossible to survive. The photography and resource management angle gives it more of an immersive sim flavour than a straight horror sprint.

PC specs and availability

Wilderdark launches on PC via Steam — no console version has been announced. The Steam Store lists minimum specs at an RTX 2070 (or AMD equivalent), with an RTX 3060 recommended, alongside a Core i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 2600 at minimum and 16 GB RAM. That puts it squarely in the mid-tier gaming PC bracket.

| | Minimum | Recommended | |---|---|---| | OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit | | CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | Intel Core i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | | RAM | 16 GB | 32 GB | | GPU | Nvidia RTX 2070 / AMD equivalent | Nvidia RTX 3060 / AMD equivalent | | DirectX | 12 | 12 |

No price has been announced. The May 7 demo is the best early look at whether the concept holds up — worth wishlisting now if infected dinosaurs and a camera-based stealth loop sound appealing.