The house should be empty. The lamps are lit. Your father still lives here.

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The Story

A Family's Dark
Legacy Awakens

Your sister called. She said your father is not right, and there is no one else, and please come home. You swore you never would. The house is lit when you arrive. The lamps are on. A candle is burning in the hall. The table in the kitchen is set for four, and one of the places has been used recently.

Nobody has lived here for years.

Set in modern-day rural America, The Evil Rise is a descent through one family and the house that rotted with it. Nexon-9 was built to save a dying woman. It worked. It never stopped. Now it grows through the walls, and it does not raise the dead so much as reclaim them.

The Story
Gameplay
Gameplay

Strategic Survival Against
Grotesque Enemies

There is no block. Your only defense is distance and the discipline to keep moving. Ammunition runs desperate, healing runs rarer, and no encounter in the house requires you to kill, until the last one. Every one of the dead here used to be someone, which is why nothing you do to them feels like winning.

Atmosphere
Atmosphere

Story-Driven Exploration
of a Decaying Mansion

The house is a body, and its doors open with its organs. A cast-iron eye, a lung, a brain. Every room is a record of the family that lived here: a table set for four, a photograph worn pale by a thumb, a music box someone still winds. The deeper you go, the less you can trust what you see.

Technology
Technology

Powered by
Unreal Engine 5

Every wing of the house owns a different light: warm lamps and a single candle, a flashlight cone in total dark, candle and moon, the dead blue of a morgue. Lumen global illumination carries the bounce, shadows are crushed until the dark stays dark, and only real sources are ever allowed to bloom.

Characters

The Inhabitants

Every one of them was a person. That is the point.

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The Husk
The Husk
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The Spine
The Spine
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The Drifter
The Drifter
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The Reacher
The Reacher
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The Caul
The Caul
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Edgar Harper
Edgar Harper
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Official Trailer

The Evil Rise
A Luminam Games Production
Created and Developed by Liam Hadari

One Developer.
Zero Compromise.

The Evil Rise was designed and built by one developer in Unreal Engine 5, from concept and narrative to level design, lighting, and gameplay systems.

“That was poetry right there. Actual work of art.”
One of Twitch's most-followed broadcasters, on a previous title from the studio

Liam Hadari has shipped two commercial horror titles on Steam, the first at age twelve, sold to players in more than sixty countries with no publisher and no marketing budget.

Industry Interest

Industry professionals have sought out his work on their own: a voice-over director credited on major commercial releases and two professional game localisers offered to work on his games, a developer who worked on a major studio horror release reached out after discovering The Evil Rise, and a talent scout from a publicly listed global virtual reality hardware manufacturer approached him about the game.

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Developer
5+
Years Making Games
Steam Published
AAA Visuals
Sold in 60+ Countries
Unreal Engine 5
Free Demo
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