Cradle of Ash

Burn the dead or they come back. Pre-alpha footage. All video and screenshots subject to change. You wake in a wrecked coach at the edge of Ashbrook, a company town sealed off behind a chemical-spill quarantine that nobody believes. Every resident carries something that should never have had a body. It walks. It prays. It gets back up from anything you do to it — stronger, faster, angrier — unless what is left of it burns.

Down in the hospital, in the dark under the maternity ward, something is assembling itself out of every body it has ever owned. It knows your name. It has known your name since before you were born. One to four players, or solo. Always four survivors. Bring up to three friends, or go in on your own. Every run puts four survivors into Ashbrook, and any seat a friend is not sitting in is taken by a companion who fights beside you, picks you up when you go down, and has opinions about all of it.

A friend who joins late takes a companion's place. The campaign does not scale down politely — a body nobody had time to burn is a problem for whoever is nearest it twenty seconds later, and that might be you. Drop-in co-op over Steam; invite from your friends list.…