Derelikt sets November 13 PS5 launch for retro space horror

Derelikt is scheduled for PlayStation 5 on November 13, creator Philipp Jensen announced on November 2. The science-fiction horror game deliberately borrows the visual language of the original PlayStation era.

A missing excavation team

Players arrive as a contractor investigating an absent crew at an outpost attached to an asteroid near Saturn. Equipment failures, troubling discoveries and inconsistent accounts from survivors turn that assignment into a struggle to stay alive.

Supplies shape the journey

Publisher Hyperstrange's store description makes resource management central to the experience. Ammunition, health and inventory capacity all matter, even though the arsenal includes both conventional and alien weapons. The promise is enough firepower to survive, with shortages preventing every encounter from becoming a carefree shooting gallery.

Exploration moves through laboratories, maintenance shafts, living quarters and stranger spaces inside the asteroid. More than a dozen characters have their own concerns and versions of events, adding uncertainty to decisions about whom to trust.

The retro presentation also reaches beyond a low resolution filter. The listing describes distorted textures, deliberately unstable geometry, vertex colour work and rendered cinematic sequences. For players considering it, the clearest reference point is survival horror built around vulnerability and investigation. The PS5 listing confirms one-player play and controller vibration, while the dated release announcement supplies the November schedule.