The Darwin Project is a game about survival in the woods.
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The Darwin Project is Scavengers Studio’s snowy take on The Hunger Games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Scavengers Studio, a Montreal-based independent game developer, unveiled its first game today: The Darwin Project.

The title — where you have to survive in the woods while others are hunting you — is being unveiled at the PAX East event in Boston, and it will debut as a Steam Greenlit PC title in the fall. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic landscape in the Northern Canadian Rockies.

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Dean Takahashi

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.