Death Stream (2025)

Developer: Elias Jose
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Rating: 4.4 of 5, 27 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 1.5 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

You are trapped in a high-stakes, live-streamed nightmare where every decision is scrutinized by a bloodthirsty audience and failure means a gruesome death.

tenseatmosphericdarksurvival horrorinteractivechoice-drivenlinearviolent

What players say

Players praise the tense death-game atmosphere and fair design, but many find it too RNG-driven with no way to skip repeated dialogue or restart after a single failure. The Chinese localization is machine-translated, and some feel the game offers too few minigames to sustain replay.

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