Dead Take is an adventure developed by Surgent Studios, released 31 July 2025 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Dead Take is
Dead Take is an adventure game developed by Surgent Studios and released in 2025. It was published by PocketPair. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Chase Lowry is a struggling actor watching his career slip away while others around him rise to stardom. When his close friend, the newly famous Vinny Monroe, mysteriously vanishes in the wake of a lavish party at a secluded estate in the Hollywood Hills, Chase arrives to search for him. What begins as a simple hunt for a missing friend soon curdles into a waking nightmare, as Chase roams the eerie, emptied mansion, piecing together scattered clues and unsettling fragments left behind by the night's guests. The deeper he digs, the more he uncovers about the partygoers and the disturbing price they have paid to cling to fame and the limelight. Told through haunting cinematic sequences and a…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 19 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Dead Take holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen 2600 or Intel Core i7 7700k, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB, AMD Radeon RX580 8GB, or Intel Arc A580. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dead Take launched on 31 July 2025, within three weeks of Mafia: The Old Country, Donkey Kong Bananza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers and Sword of the Sea. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The Old Country, Donkey Kong Bananza, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Sword of the Sea.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dead Take yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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