Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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Caput Mortum
Developer WildArts Games
Travel back to 16th-century France and delve into the mysterious depths of a seemingly abandoned alchemist's tower. Do you dare brave the horrors that beckon you below... deeper still? From the Steam store page
269 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
95
LovedLoved
173 positive · 9 negative
95% range 91–97%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 173 | 9 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
87 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
417 of 437 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 269 · most liked firstHey folks, I've added Caput Mortum to my Steam Curator page. It's a short horror game with an control scheme reminiscent of days before the medium had a more unified standard of how first-person games should control, and it is GENIUS! Huge thumbs up. 👍 store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →2. Caput Mortum Extremely creepy little horror puzzle game where the idea is you control the player character's hand to interact with the environment and solve puzzles, and once you get used to the weird control scheme, it's utterly fascinating. Very neat game that flew under the radar.
unlabelledView post →We're now at 96% positive reviews on Caput Mortum!!! 😭 We're so happy our weird little horror game has been so well received! 💖 Thanks again to everyone, and if you know a horror enthusiast in your life, let them know about this game! #indiegame #horrorgame #survivalhorror
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum is at 93% positive!! 🤯🎉 Thank you everyone who left a review! Our goal is to reach 50 this weekend, so please leave one if you enjoyed the game! ❤️🙂↕️ #indiegame #horrorgame #screenshotsaturday
unlabelledView post →I’ve been too busy to post much about it but Caput Mortum is the newest game I composed for! The controls remind me of playing scary games as a kid before standardised controls. Without something familiar to cling to, it made the whole experience more alien and unsettling!
unlabelledView post →Okay, Fright Train? VERY good game. Also great to see the range WildArts have. Caput Mortum was an experimental interface slow walking horror game, while this is a mash-up of every survival horror flavor at once that somehow WORKS. Finished my first Chapter 1 run. I thought I did good. Rank E. Hah.
unlabelledView post →#SteamNextFest has begun!! If you feel like trying a weird horror game that takes inspiration from Amnesia and King's Field 4, check out Caput Mortum! 👇
unlabelledView post →Hey folks, I'm live now! Playing more creepy and weird indie horror game CAPUT MORTUM! It's very spooky, so come join me, please I don't want to be alone with the monster, it wants to play with me. www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
unlabelledView post →By the way, the game I was streaming tonight, Caput Mortum, has a demo you can check out! Very, very interesting game. store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →Our King's Field and Amnesia-inspired horror game, Caput Mortum, is now also available on Itchio! 🥳 It's 25% off for the first week! 🫴 wildarts-games.itch.io/caput-mortum
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum is a survival horror game with: 🝎 medieval horror and PS2 graphics 🝎 unique theme-driven gameplay 🝎 sinister and tangible atmosphere
unlabelledView post →Been working on our next game, and it feels like a blend between Helltown, Born of Bread, and Caput Mortum, while having its own identity! 😺 Nic and I are both really looking forward to sharing all the details asap! 😊 #indiegame #horrorgame
unlabelledView post →Here's a new article for everyone on the recently released King's Field-ish horror indie hand 'em up Caput Mortum! Come take a look! kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/09/03/c...
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum just hit 300 reviews on Steam!! Big thank you to everyone who's played it and shared their experience since launch 🥰 This game means a lot to us, both on the professional and personal front, so we're thrilled it resonated so well with a lot of you!
unlabelledView post →Last day before Silksong comes out, so if you're in the mood to play a short, weird, and super atmospheric horror game, go play our new release: Caput Mortum! 😈
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum was an extremely neat King's Field inspired horror game I played last month, incredibly atmospheric, where the central gimmick is using the player character's hand to interact with the game's world and solve puzzles. And right now it's only got 157 reviews? It deserves way more!
unlabelledView post →Just finished an illustrated cover art for our game #caputmortum! ^o^ I wear my inspirations on my sleeve lol #gameart #indiegame
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum is a psychological horror game inspired by King's Field 4 and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Releases on August 27.
unlabelledView post →You will like our game Caput Mortum if you enjoyed: - King's Field 4 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Shadow Tower - Arx Fatalis
unlabelledView post →We hit 200 reviews 95% positive over the weekend!! ✨😤✨ Thank you everyone, we read each one of them! If you know someone who might enjoy a weird, short, anti-genAi horror game that mixes Amnesia with King's Field, let them know about Caput Mortum! ❤️
unlabelledView post →Hey folks, I'm live now with CAPUT MORTUM! We're taking a break from Silksong, and I'm gonna be checking out weird indie horror game Caput Mortum that I'd been looking forward to, so everyone come by and say hi! Let's check this one out together. 🤘 www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
unlabelledView post →Played Caput Mortum with my partner and I was so into this game. Perfectly unsettling, but beautiful environments, haunting music and puzzles that actually took some thought! Which is so appreciated by me after playing so many games with simple puzzles. I wanted more after it was done. Loved it.
unlabelledView post →35. Caput Mortum A very creepy short horror game that asks the player to get to grips with a somewhat archaic and unwieldy control scheme, but trust me that grappling with the controls is half the fun, as you're moving the player character's hand around to interact with in-game objects and puzzles.
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum version 1.2.1.0 is now live on Steam! :) Details here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/355...
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum now has trading cards on Steam! 😊 They're pretty cool, and a full set can unlock profile backgrounds and emoticons themed after the game! More info here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/355...
unlabelledView post →My latest indie developer interview is with @wildartsdevs.bsky.social, the creators of Caput Mortum, Helltown, Born of Bread, and the recently announced horror game Fright Train! Read it here: www.gtogg.com/News/en/Insi... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #survivalhorror
unlabelledView post →I'm surprised that I'm not seeing any discourse whatsoever about how Caput Mortum can be read as an allegory about AI. There's the hubris of men trying to make people, and those "people" making terrible imitations of art. There's the ouroboros imagery, which has its own relevant alchemical meanings but could also tie into AI's tendency to eat its own slop to generate more slop. I don't want to go too far with spoilers, but my point is that there is so much more here than spooky atmosphere and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I get the idea behind those "RS for hand, LS for movement, BT for camera". But it felt that I am more frustrated by them, rather than vulnerable (as the game claims). The game just felt awkward, in the wrong way. The game looks and sounds majestic though. I felt that I gotta drop after I died almost at the end of Combat Grounds location because it got me back to almost the beginning of a chapter. The encounter with the enemy was fun. For a first couple of times. When the controls and game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boo! For 2025's Best Horror Game: Heartworm @adinolfi.bsky.social @dreadxp.bsky.social Caput Mortum @wildartsdevs.bsky.social @theblacklantern.bsky.social Dead Take @surgentstudios.bsky.social No, I'm Not a Human @trioskaz.bsky.social Eclipsium @housefiregames.com All noms: gameobserver.com
unlabelledView post →The game I'd most compare this to however, is last year's Caput Mortum, which similarly featured a control scheme that would absolutely turn lots of people off, but I loved because it was so different and asked you the player to interact with its world in ways you weren't used to.
unlabelledView post →Take some time out of your Silksonging to read @dilfpatrol.bsky.social on cool indie horror and the eternal value of tank controls: "Caput Mortum ... makes the controls one of your primary enemies, elevating a pretty good horror game to a truly memorable one."
unlabelledView post →New freaky trap for Caput Mortum! Some homunculi can poison you if you get too close🤢 If you like weird horror games and obscure dungeon-crawlers, check our game out! #indiehorror #indiedev #survivalhorror #gamedev
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum - a first-person horror game, inspired by retro 3D dungeon-crawlers and survival-horrors, from the devs behind Helltown + Born of Bread - is live on Steam now to wishlist. (Support indies by wishlisting on Steam)
unlabelledView post →We're really close to 11,000 wishlists!! ✨ Add the game to your wishlist to help Caput Mortum get more easily discovered by other players on Steam! <3 Thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →Games I Finished in 2026: #1 - Caput Mortum - A short and sweet dungeon crawler where you control your right arm with the thumbstick, solve puzzles, whack a few monsters, and have one really creepy game of hide and seek. Really smart player tutorialization throughout.
unlabelledView post →HME BABBYYY!! Caput Mortum is a dungeon crawl, weird, horror, game, thing? Yeah? It's got like 150 reviews and looks strange, so I'm into it! And I'm making @sigmagears9.bsky.social and @prettygrimgames.bsky.social put up with my shenanigans. @secondwindgroup.com: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOz...
unlabelledView post →@pcgamer.com gives @theblacklantern.bsky.social and @wildartsdevs.bsky.social's CAPUT MORTUM an 80/100! www.pcgamer.com/games/horror...
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum releases today, explore a castle filled with experiments created by a mad alchemist. Link to the game below! store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →If you like the demo but think the controls are borderline intolerable, know the full version will double down and endlessly needle you with everything you hate about them. Edit: No, dev, you have one scheme for keyboard and mouse, one for keyboard only (absolutely not interested in that), no key rebinding at all, and a controller would make it even more awkward for me. Your game already has plenty of atmosphere and danger, you didn't need terrible controls for artificial 'vulnerability.' I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just love this game tbh, in a sea of unpolished, repetitive, generic games its amazing to see something unique and crafted. The old school early 2000s art style has been amazingly recaptured (doesn't even feel like it runs on Unreal Engine) through the model and texture work. The gameplay is also equally quirky in a good way with enemies that have interesting mechanics. With a story and atmosphere that is suitably captivating and creepy. All the associated banner and icon art is also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally managed to free an afternoon to play through Caput Mortum. Been looking forward to this one since next fest. Really liked it! It has that cramped, paranoid vibe that I haven't really experienced since Arx Fatalis and the alchemical backdrop to the story is very intriguing. Good game!
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum - Unique PS1 Style Survival Horror Game By The Helltown Developers @wildartsdevs.bsky.social! [Demo] Watch: youtu.be/J2WHv2XYyxU I love the style and vibe of this game so far, really looking forward to the full release!
unlabelledView post →@larsanglerllama.bsky.social just tried Caput Mortum for the first time and said it really freaked him out, and that it felt like playing a horror game for the first time 🥹 He's gonna help out with some later levels! I'm really eager for more people to try it out! 😈 #screenshotsaturday
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum has been nominated for best horror game of 2025! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° Your vote would be appreciated if you enjoyed our weird lil spooky game!
unlabelledView post →Recently played a very short, but extremely refreshing and fun horror themed action adventure game that would feel right at home in 2003 (in the best way) - Caput Mortum. Definitely worth checking out: klardendum.com/review/happy...
unlabelledView post →Played with my girlfriend and we had a good time. The progression was engaging, made sense and quite varied. We also liked the visuals and atmosphere. Only downside is the game is quite short. The dev could have easily padded out the playtime by adding more enemies, repeating tasks etc. but I think it's better as it is. Nothing wears out its welcome and it kept us engaged. Probably best to play the game in a single sitting, like a movie. Ok I'll hide now.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →But on the whole? Caput Mortum is a positively genius game that I enjoyed, an excellent short horror experience, and I'd seriously recommend it. If you're on the fence? There's a demo! Go, give it a try. As usual, if you want more recommendations? Go follow my Steam Curator page!
unlabelledView post →Absolutely abysmal control scheme with a controller. Would definitely refund if I hadn't bought it in a bundle. Total waste of money. UPDATE: I will admit when I was wrong. After a developer response pointed me to where the control scheme can be changed, it VASTLY increases the playability of the game. I highly recommend if you're using a controller to switch to the 'Modern' control scheme. So thank you to the developer both for your patience and help. I look forward to experiencing the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent atmospheric horror experience. Keep in mind that you're getting 2-4 hours of gameplay for your purchase. If you're alright with that, you're in for a bizarre and memorable time. The devs achieved what they were going for with the strange control scheme. Using familiar mouselook controls I might have felt much more confident dodging around these strange homunculi, but steering my feet and hand separately via controller felt like patting my head and rubbing my stomach at times. It put…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you wanna play a game for me in spirit, pick up Caput Mortum! They've been nothing but sweet to me and I'm sad I won't be able to enjoy the game right after release. If you're in the mood, please take some time to play this Grade-A indie experience for yourselves.
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum will automatically detect if the game is being streamed and apply this skin to the enemy #TrailerTuesday
unlabelledView post →the game is Caput Mortum plz wishllist thanks store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →A short dungeon exploration adventure with puzzles and frights and an insane control scheme. I loved it! If you're on the fence, try the demo, you can pick up progress from there in the full game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really neat, I just wish it was longer. It really feels like a proof of concept/demo, and my only frustrations were the silly control style, and how short it was.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game with accessibility options, I am wholeheartedly disappointed to not see a southpaw option. For the Hermetics reading, I am of course referring to witnessing this rather crude execution of albedo, in which we have seemingly been provided with the masculine right hand but with a striking absence of the feminine left. I ask the developers to instill balance toward the alchemical process, and allow the androgyne traveler their deserved autonomy to use their left hand if they desire.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is simply incredible, from the themes of alchemy and existentialism, and some of the puzzles straight up reward you for understanding the basics of alchemy. the scary moments are effective and do not feel cheap and does not drag and the game does not use it as a crutch, which makes each moment of terror and tension feel unique, the game has been one hell of a ride for me, can't recommend it enough.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Caput Mortum: You will buy and play this game, you will get scared, you will go "woah this is rad" you will have a good time, and you will play with the strange controls or you will not survive the winter
unlabelledView post →Caput Mortum has finally released! Grabby horror game >:3 I'm so excited to play it later! See you at the usual time! 6pm CST!
unlabelledView post →Been playing @wildartsdevs.bsky.social 's Caput Mortum! A short little game with a great setting, clearly inspired by older dungeon crawlers games but with quality-of-life additions that help smooth out the rough edges! store.steampowered.com/app/3555980/...
unlabelledView post →If this released back in early 2000's it would have outsold amnesia, outlast and even arx fatalis. Ok maybe not arx but still, I think It's great and hope to see more games that change how controls work
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