Heartworm

Heartworm
Developer: Vincent Adinolfi
Platforms: PC
Buy it from: Steam
Release Date: TBD 2025

While many developers who worked on classic ‘90s survival horror games had to build environments and characters around the limited technology of the time, that low-polygon aesthetic and sense of atmosphere still has many fans today. The upcoming Heartworm aims to recapture that ‘90s style from classic Silent Hill and Resident Evil for a surreal and unnerving new game. Mixing Fatal Frame with the unease of Twin Peaks, Heartworm is a nostalgia-fueled nightmare gallery that channels that familiar mood of classic survival horror. While battling monsters that looked like they’d crawled out of static televisions, I was taken in by the ever-changing environments, which got increasingly unhinged as it went on. I dug where this horror game is going, and I’m all for developers giving the low-polygon aesthetic a second life with modern games.