Indie developer Harebrained Schemes has unveiled a new gameplay trailer for its upcoming survival horror RPG, Graft, at the Horror Game Awards 2025. The trailer showcases the game's unique mechanics, including transforming the player character by grafting abilities from defeated enemies. No release date has been announced for the title.
Indie game developer and publisher Harebrained Schemes has released a new trailer for its survival horror RPG, Graft, over a year after the game's initial announcement. The development has proceeded quietly, with little public updates until this surprise reveal at the Horror Game Awards 2025.
Graft blends classic survival horror combat with a post-cyberpunk atmosphere. Players navigate a continent-sized station known as the Arc, filled with biomechanically enhanced citizens pursuing a long-forgotten purpose. The core mechanic involves tearing pieces from defeated nightmarish creatures to graft onto the player's body, unlocking deadly tools and abilities. However, each graft carries fragments of its previous owner, introducing strange cravings, half-glimpsed memories, and moral choices that shape the player's metamorphosis.
The game emphasizes tense combat, resource management, and strategic battle selection to survive the horrors. Exploration features yawning chasms, self-replicating labyrinths, and techno-catacombs, where players master forgotten technologies and unearth secrets. As a dark RPG, Graft includes forming fragile alliances that can deepen into meaningful relationships, with player choices influencing the journey and the fates of encountered characters.
Despite the excitement around the trailer, Harebrained has provided no details on a release window, leaving fans awaiting further news on this innovative techno-horror experience.
