AFFECTED: The Asylum Coming Soon to Meta Quest & SteamVR
In 2026, the doors of the fated Blackthorne Asylum will open once more, but this is a place that was never meant to be saved. Dead Boss Games and Evolution Publishing are excited to announce the upcoming arrival of psychological survival horror AFFECTED: The Asylum.
A sanatorium with a long, dark history, many years ago, the line between medicine and madness was intentionally erased. Controlled by a secretive cult, they used the institution not to treat patients, but to experiment upon them.
Through a series of harrowing procedures, patients were subjected to "The Preparation", a systematic process of indoctrination and physical alteration. Through this process, the cult sought to merge biology with belief, creating a collective hive mind using a parasitic entity known as the "Holy Gift".
Step into the dilapidated remnants of Blackthorne Asylum to discover the cult’s crowning achievement and greatest failure: SUBJECT 357. An employee who was forcibly selected for the "Apex Experiment" after falling foul of the leader, the process broke them. However, what remained was something more than human. They now roam the asylum as an ever-present predator, a warped manifestation of the cult’s ambitions.
"With AFFECTED: The Asylum, we wanted to move beyond the tropes of the 'haunted house' and explore the horror of a place that was systematically corrupted," says Kevin Joyce, CEO of Evolution Publishing. "It’s a story about what happens when absolute belief meets an unstoppable biological force. In VR, that sense of being hunted in a space with so much dark history is incredibly visceral."
AFFECTED: The Asylum Key Features:
environmental storytelling and salvaged records.
The Apex Encounter: Survive against SUBJECT 357, a persistent and intelligent threat.
Desperate Survival: With scarce ammunition and high stakes, resource management,
stealth, and critical thinking are vital to survive each encounter.
AFFECTED: The Asylum is a single-player psychological survival horror experience coming soon to Meta Quest and SteamVR