How Surgent Studios pivoted and made Dead Take horror game | Abubakar Salim interview

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Dead Take launched a few weeks ago as a psychological horror PC game from actor Abubakar Salim‘s Surgent Studios.

Funded and published by an arm of Palworld creator, Pocketpair Publishing, the game is available now on Steam and the Epic Games Store.

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