Post Trauma
Developer RED SOUL GAMES
Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom. From the Steam store page
292 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
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126 positive · 62 negative
95% range 60–73%
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60 of 292 · most liked firstA reminder that Post Trauma, a survival-horror game with a love of fixed camera angles, limited saves, inventory management, & The Evil Within, releases today (in less than 3 hours from the time of writing) on PC/Steam, PS5, & Xbox S/X for $14.99 USD.
unlabelledView post →Next month there's 82 notable game releases and this not an April fools joke! South of Midnight, Descenders Next, Indiana Jones on PS5, Post Trauma and the more details about Nintendo Switch 2! What a great month for being a game enthusiast!
unlabelledView post →A game unlucky enough to release on the same day as Oblivion Remastered's shadow drop is getting a joke 'spiritual re-release'. 'Post Trauma: The Re-Release Except We're Not Un-Releasing It First and It's Pretty Much the Same' is coming in June. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/game-re...
unlabelledView post →youtu.be/nMu1zOwG9UU?... Post Trauma Demo is here, watch me react to the scares and my own voice in game. 👀👌
unlabelledView post →Streaming Post Trauma! New Survival Horror game that just released~ www.twitch.tv/spaceyeen
unlabelledView post →After a long hiatus, Game Dev is (Not) Easy returns this Friday with a 3-hour episode! My guest is @robertoserrag.bsky.social, developer of Post Trauma. We talked about making a game in Unreal, working with a publisher, and the hardships of game development. I hope you'll like it!
unlabelledView post →Game Dev is (Not) Easy is back after a year long break. I talked with @robertoserrag.bsky.social , the developer of Post Trauma, about his journey from making Gears of War mods to creating indie horror. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. youtu.be/W49gm6eygUk
unlabelledView post →Let's play some horror game Post Trauma twitch.tv/catgirlfingies
unlabelledView post →Post Trauma: The Re-Release announced for June 23 - a "spiritual re-release" of the survival-horror game that got overshadowed by Oblivion Remastered's shadowdrop this week. (Support the game on Steam)
unlabelledView post →I was actually looking forward to this game when I bought it. The trailers looked cool, and I'm an avid Indie game fan. but it really fell short of the potential it could have had. Its got really good atmosphere and a great art direction. But gameplay feels like it was pulled out of the oven way too early, as a lack of enemies or even jump scares means 90% of the time you're going to be just doing a pixel hunt. And this is a big issue with the game, as too often the items you're looking for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →last stream before my bday 😢! we're gonna take it easy & check out this BRAND new survival horror game called POST TRAUMA! the nice peeps at mythic scored me a #sponsor for this one and i'm super STOKED to check this out! it reminds me of early ps2 horror! #ad see you at 10pm CDT!! twitch.tv/COQUI
unlabelledView post →Post Trauma Unfortunately, the game had its good moments, but overall it left an impression of being “strange” in many aspects. The strangest thing for me is probably the combat, it is so simple that it would probably be better if this mechanic was cut out of the game. Some puzzles were too obvious, others not at all, but this is probably still the stronger side of the game. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3572238705 Choosing the metro location I consider overall a good…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post Trauma - a modern survival-horror game, inspired by the classics but with a middle-aged train conductor as the protagonist - is launching on the PS5/XBS/PC on March 31. New demo available now for Steam Next Fest. (Support indies by wishlisting on Steam)
unlabelledView post →Right out of the gate, Post Trauma captivated my attention. Waking up on a subway, no knowledge of getting there, blood, darkness, and a *very* clever puzzle. You eventually roll into the subway station, it's abandoned, there's strange growth on the walls and you are alone. But can you really be sure of that? One thing the early areas of Post Trauma does very well is creating a tense and oppressive atmosphere in a mostly subtle way. It's very easy to make parallels to Silent Hill (1 and 2…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never known a game, across the duration of its entire runtime, to plummet in quality at the astonishing rate that Post Trauma does. What starts as a promising indie Silent Hill tribute descends into a maddening, directionless and player-hostile mess where puzzles don't evolve, story threads don't resolve, and a myriad of bad habits are never remedied. The beginning is exceptional. You're trapped on a locked train carriage going to an unknown destination, and a smart logic puzzle sets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New video's finished and uploading (but since it's on Post Trauma, it will release on the 22nd of April when the game launches)✌️
unlabelledView post →LIVE! Just chatting and playing a horror game called Post Trauma tonight!
unlabelledView post →Post Trauma @rawfury.bsky.social An absolute gem! Well done Red Soul Game! #posttrauma #virtualphotography #horror #vpsupport #vprepost #rawfury
unlabelledView post →Sadly, the only Post Trauma here is self-inflicted. What starts as a promising homage to Silent Hill quickly spirals into a shallow, uninspired mess. The game borrows heavily from classic survival horror, with all-too-familiar locations like subways, hospitals, and labyrinths, but fails to capture the eerie atmosphere, thematic depth, or psychological tension that made Silent Hill iconic. Narratively, it’s a disaster. The story throws out a handful of vague ideas but never weaves them into…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Constant bugs, broken animations, bugged graphics on many occasions, and floating assets with no sense in some areas. It’s broken in many ways. It’s a shame that visually it’s so cool, while everything else is so bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post Trauma is a survival horror game with atmospheric fixed camera angles, but with modern graphics. The game has a few enemies to fight, but most of the game is about exploration and solving puzzles. The game takes around 4-5 hours to complete. You will probably get 100% of the achievements just by completing the game if you explore all the areas carefully, and make a seperate save near the end of the game. There are 2 endings. + The art direction and atmosphere of the game is outstanding.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to quickly clarify that despite my playtime I did finish the game. My first attempt was on my Steam Deck, it ran but nowhere near to a quality I was satisfied with so I ended up playing on my PlayStation instead. I’ve been following Post Trauma since it was much earlier in development. Back then the project seemed interesting but also like it was going to come of out the oven half baked. I don’t think my stance has changed much after release. It’s a bit frustrating because I think this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many games coming out this month. Here are four that might be flying under your radar: -Post Trauma 10/29 -Phoenix Springs 10/7 -Europa 10/11 -Kill Knight (out today!) kotaku.com/game-release...
unlabelledView post →ICYMI: I'll be performing for GDQ events TWICE next month! On September 1st, I'll be on the #PAXWest stage running #Signalis at my very first in-person speedrunning event. On September 9th, I'll be running #PostTrauma for #FlameFatales. Schedules in the replies! I hope to see you all in chat <3
unlabelledView post →Super excited to announce that I'm writing the music for Post Trauma, a horror game inspired by genre-defining classics of the past decades! You know how much I LOVE this genre. This is my most ambitious project yet!!
unlabelledView post →Horror fans! Gotta recommend Post Trauma. A rough and ready indie game that wears its Silent Hill inspiration on its sleeve. It’s spooky, the monster designs are grotesque, and the puzzles are head-scratching and satisfying. Good stuff!
unlabelledView post →🎮 Post Trauma | Demo 🛠️ PC | UUU | Reshade #VPRepost #VPSupport #SteamNextFest @rawfury.bsky.social Loving everything about this game
unlabelledView post →Not that we need another new game to play, BUT for all my horror fans, you might have missed it just like I did but apparently Post Trauma is out now! It looks creep as hell! $14.99 as well which is a killer price.
unlabelledView post →i think it's looking at me... 👁️👁️ tonight we have a very cool horror game... Post Trauma!!! join me tonight as as we go through all types of trauma together with this horror puzzle game tonight at 7PM CST, see ya there~ 🐈⬛💖 #sponsored
unlabelledView post →The game started fairly well, good pacing and interesting puzzles, liked the atmosphere. At some point it really started missing story beats and opportunities to invest the audience into the story/purposefully withholding any sort of information as to what could be going on, who the characters were, what was remotely happening in the world, and that's where it started to fall apart for me. That, combined with the disparity of combat and the increasingly heavy reliance on Silent Hill and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do like Jank? Do you like confusing puzzles? Do you like gross beasts and tenticles? This game has it all. Also the ending is weird and I have too many questions. Was good enough for the price and took me about 7 hours to figure it out.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros The graphics look great and I really like the art style. Supports 21:9 resolutions. There are some difficult puzzles, and this is a mostly puzzle focused game. Cons Story is pretty hard to follow. I'd call it nonsensical. The gameplay is quite linear with small maps. You solve the puzzle in room A to open room B, etc. There is very little or no backtracking. Alot of half implemented mechanics. There are item boxes but item management is not an aspect of this game and there is little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post Trauma continues to be an incredible survival horror game. Very much Silent Hill inspired. Very good enemy design too!
unlabelledView post →This game feels more like a polished beta than a fully finished game. Still, I had fun with it. Sadly there's a are a couple of puzzles that are basically impossible to solve without using a guide if you're average IQ like me I guess. I do have a soft spot for the protagonist, and I’m always willing to give indie survival horror a chance. That being said, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who isn’t already a fan of old school survival horror. Performance is also kinda bad. I can run it at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe one of the best Silent Hill-like indie games I've played. Puzzles are intuitive enough to not be frustrating, but difficult enough to feel rewarding. The design of it kind of encourages basic note taking at times or screenshotting just so you remember the clues without needing to continually backtrack. Combat seems too easy on Normal, but maybe that's addressed in the harder difficulty - not a big deal as combat isn't really the main reason I come to these types of games. Voice acting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →POST TRAUMA - Sad Old Man Gets Trapped In A Silent Hill Inspired Nightmare | Full Game, All Endings Watch: youtu.be/_XxVFOu9eKo
unlabelledView post →Post Trauma is a puzzle-heavy (not combat-heavy) indie survival horror where the environment is the clue. The full game just released today, check out our review in the comments 👇
unlabelledView post →An earnest but deeply middling attempt at a survival horror throwback. If you like puzzles that involve taking screenshots of clues scattered around the environment and referring back to said screenshots, that's the majority of Post Trauma's run time. It's not incompetently made, but once you understand that pretty much every major puzzle involves "writing down the obvious clue" it becomes less challenging than the developers probably intended. Probably for the best, since the combat is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post Trauma is a Puzzle Horror game inspired by PS2 era classics. Navigate environments, tackle threats, and meet other lost characters in the depths of the Gloom. Post Trauma is 40% off on Xbox now: www.xbox.com/games/store/...
unlabelledView post →You just run around aimlessly, clicking the interact button on everything because almost nothing makes sense. Then it's just rinse and repeat forever. The trailer looks amazing. I went back and watched it again, and it looks and sounds great! But the actual gameplay sucks like hell. The controls are awful. You're constantly fighting the camera, and there isn't even a place to check the keyboard layout. It only shows gamepad controls, and the keyboard prompts in the UI keep changing with no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i bought this game so i could hear corpse husband's voice again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It gets a yes, but it barely gets a yes. I will keep this relatively quick because I have nothing to say that any of the well-written reviews haven't already. The game hits the horror itch well, and it leans tremendously on Silent Hill for inspiration right down the story. I played the game on hard mode and found the difficulty immensely underwhelming, and that's not because of my ability as a gamer, that's because it's very easy. When I died, it was usually because of the game's horrid camera…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post-Trauma just barely breaks the 500 steam reviews limit, but it's 74% positive with a 64 metaritic so I'll count it. I haven't played another recently released horror game that has the same janky, kinda-bad feeling as ps1/2 era survival horror and I love it store.steampowered.com/app/1750030/...
unlabelledView post →Looked cool in the promo, so I've decided to give it a shot. Dropped it on the fourth act and have no intention on continuing. This game tries to be Silent Hill but alas, it fails in so many ways. Aside from the visuals, sound design and a couple of puzzles, it doesn't have to offer anything. Controls are terrible, voice acting is sub par, the story is pretty boring and I couldn't really feel the atmosphere that game was trying to build. It's not great nor terrible, kind of mid
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crimson Desert definitely has my attention. Beat RE9. Mostly loved it. Beat A Quiet Place. Decent. Not bad, not great. Still slowly working on Reanimal. After that, gonna need a new horror game. Might start Hollow Body, Slitterhead or Post Trauma. Plan on getting to all three this year.
unlabelledView post →If you want my full thoughts, check out my review @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwJu3ZId1zQ Here is a brief overview of my feelings on this game, but it is very complicated... I don't believe that classic survival horror was the best vehicle for these developers to tell this particular story. I think they would've been better suited with a point and click adventure game in the style of something like The Cat Lady, Strangeland, or Stasis. Every fundamental aspect of the genre is either…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10- the only reason I didn't give this a 10/10 is because I wish it was longer. (I completed the game with 9hrs played, though I can't remember if I paused to do something else at any point) I highly recommend this game for anyone that enjoys old style Resident Evil games. The atmosphere is perfect. The puzzles are satisfyingly difficult. The story is ambiguous, but not too ambiguous. I really commend the creators for designing the puzzles to be difficult without them feeling like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →horror game called Post Trauma where you navigate the forum you used to frequent and the Private Messages from a forty year old housewife who is intent on telling you at 14 years young about her failing marriage.
unlabelledView post →Thats Post Trauma finished up. I really loved this little game. Fun scares, spooky atmosphere. Great puzzles with the exception of one that made no sense to me. Very Silent Hill-esque. Classic survival Horror fans should check it out!
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unlabelledView post →Playing Post Trauma today! Creepy horror game similar to Silent Hill? www.twitch.tv/Kajiru Come join for Friday Night Spooks! Live now!
unlabelledView post →The demo for Post Trauma. As you can see by the frame counter top left, it runs horribly on the Steam Deck 😅. But...this is legitimately the most Silent Hill feeling survival horror game I've played. It captures that series atmosphere perfectly. Right down to the wonky camera angles. Wishlist'd
unlabelledView post →i really wanted to like it but its primarily a puzzle game and a not very good one at that. it youre looking for a game like the old resident evil games i would highly recommend a game called Echoes of the Living.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played 30 mins of Post Trauma...let me tell you, if you were a fan of old school horror, cinematic camera angles, inventory, clunky fighting, dreadful atmosphere, this one nails all that immediately. I can't speak to the whole game yet but I'm 100% playing this asap www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5T...
unlabelledView post →Blue Prince - Post Trauma, Knights in Tight Spaces and 10 Years of Raw Fury! @rawfury.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/blue-p... #videogamepublishing #indiegames #rawfury
unlabelledView post →Only for people who like survival horror.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I usally don´t write reviews but i think this game deserve it. Lots of pros and cons was said already about this game. Try to look at other reviews on steam. But for me Post Trauma was almost perfect. Great eerie atmosphere, good puzzle design (some puzzles were on weaker side) and game focuses rather on exploration rather than fights. I felt strong oldschool silent hill vibes from it. Somebody could complain about lack of enemies and small weapons variety, for me it was a good thing. I could…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It seemed like there was potential, it even looked like someone on the team was trying, but overall it looks like a crude rip-off of asset flipping. Third chapter is russian trash pack Abandoned Psychiatric Hospital that has decals on walls like ♥♥♥♥ and else that developers even not clean before using. All puzzles boil down to find the key/code and enter it. A lot of interesting moment and horror part just broken. Sometimes the camera and shot are well-placed, here you can say that it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →as of this review ive only made it to act 3 and this will include minor spoilers so if you want to exp this game spoiler free then all ill say is wait for this to go on sale before buying it cause its only worth $10 or less imo. with that said if your looking for a game that evokes the feeling of old ps2 silent hill games then this is ok. not good not great but just ok. the puzzles arent hard to figure out but some solutions are kinda bs. for example the fuse puzzle is easy to figure out tho…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are no other games, they're gone, we used that raw fury we've gathered in the lair to snap them out of existence. So get Post Trauma, it's the only game you CAN play.
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