Letherfall

Letherfall

Released Dec 2025

Letherfall is a first-person horror video game with Lovecraftian elements: the player must make their way through monstrous entities and intricate puzzles while exploring the abandoned village of Letherfall. Some nightmares don’t fade. They’re just waiting for you to open the wrong door.

83% positive · 110 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Letherfall launched on December 19, 2025 as a free-to-play first-person horror game. The developer released a performance and refinement patch (v1.1.0) on March 30, 2026, which addressed technical optimizations, audio polish, narrative fixes, and localization corrections. That update also included a teaser line — "something significant is stirring in the shadows, and we'll have more to reveal very soon" — suggesting the developer had something planned at that time. However, that post dates from March 30, 2026, and today is August 22, 2026. No follow-up announcement, named content, or unreleased DLC listing has materialized in the nearly five months since. With no DLC listed on the store, no roadmap, and no subsequent communication from the developer, the teaser has not been substantiated into a concrete content commitment. The game has received only a single post-launch news post (a feature patch), which is not enough to establish a sustained update cadence. As a complete, self-contained horror narrative, Letherfall appears to have shipped as a finished product.
Evidence
Update v1.1.0 delivered performance optimizations, audio polish, narrative fixes, and localization corrections. Post teases that 'something significant is stirring in the shadows' with more to reveal 'very soon', hinting at unspecified future content.
news post · Mar 30, 2026 source ambiguous
medium
Game launched as a complete first-person horror narrative about Dylan returning to the abandoned village of Letherfall. No mention of post-launch content, seasons, or expansions.
store metadata · Dec 19, 2025 source content shipped
medium

Media

Details

Publisher
AIV - Accademia Italiana Videogiochi
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Letherfall, June 27, 1998.
A child is found on the shores of a lake. His eyes wide with terror, his body frozen with fear and cold.
Not far from him, dozens of lifeless bodies: Dylan is the only survivor.
The police investigate, secret services intervene, but it’s all in vain — the truth lies buried with the corpses and within the twisted corners of young Dylan’s mind.

Manhattan, 2018
Dylan still remembers nothing of that tragic night, but terrible nightmares begin to consume his mind.
Relentless. Violent.
A voice haunts him in his sleep. Just one sentence, repeated over and over:
"Come back to Letherfall."
It sounds like his sister Janie — whose body was the only one never found.

Driven by a dark impulse and the guidance of his therapist, Dylan returns to the now-abandoned village. Letherfall is rotten, decayed, silent… but it is not empty.
Something is there. Something watching. Something that remembers.

Explore a disturbing and decaying environment, through distorted memories, inhuman presences, and unspeakable horrors.
Survive, uncover the truth — or lose your mind trying.

Letherfall is waiting for you.
And this time… no one gets out.

Last evaluated Aug 22, 2026
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