Mortanis Prisoners (2025)

Mortanis Prisoners is yet another first person classic survival horror - this time in a unique WWII Nazi prison "purgatory". You play as a double-agent who worked as a secretary in the prison, only to be caught... and then somehow sent to an alternate realm version of the prison. A ghost/demon thing then instructs you that you must answer for your deeds and find some way to escape.

The game checks all the survival horror boxes - puzzles, zombies, limited inventory, an open nonlinear map, lore documents, and an interesting decaying environment. It stands out in its ambition - at a certain point in the game the 3 biomes shift in their layout and level of infection (similar to Silent Hill's otherworld). The puzzles are very good and include all types - riddles, inventory, mechanical, and keys. The combat is somewhat basic but feels pretty good - headshots save you a ton of ammo.

It's got a little jank in its controls and art design, but nothing too egregious. It is definitely one of the better indie first-person survival horror games, just not quite at the level of Dead Beacon, Hope is Gone, or One Last Toast (largely because I prefer the kitsch and low-poly art style of those). But it is totally a competent classic survival horror experience, and definitely worth checking out.