Black Forest’s Fade to Silence survival game comes to Early Access next week

Here’s a game where you lie in the snow. Well, maybe more than that. Game studio Black Forest unveiled Fade to Silence as a new survival game where you battle monsters in very bad weather.

Fade to Silence comes to Steam Early Access next week. Black Forest is developing the game for publisher THQ Nordic. The company managed to keep this game in stealth for a long time.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.