Sleep Awake is a first-person horror adventure developed by EYES OUT, published by Blumhouse Games, and released in 2025 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The project is led by director Cory Davis, known for Spec Ops: The Line, with music composed by Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails. Set in the last known city on Earth, the game centers on a phenomenon called The HUSH — the inexplicable disappearance of anyone who falls asleep. The resulting crisis has fractured society into warring death cults, each convinced they hold the only solution to sleeplessness. Players take the role of Katja, navigating this fractured world through stealth and puzzle-solving rather than combat, working to survive the increasingly unhinged experiments of those around her. Visually, the game employs hand-crafted environments, a bold color palette, and FMV integration to construct a psychedelic, cosmic horror atmosphere that blurs the line between waking reality and nightmare.
SLEEP AWAKE is an immersive first-person psychedelic horror narrative experience that explores the realm between sleep and death. From Blumhouse Games and led by Cory Davis (Spec Ops: The Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails), SLEEP AWAKE blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination.
In a desperate attempt to remain awake, the denizens of the last known city on Earth are reaching a panic crisis of reckless experiments in their effort to avoid The HUSH, the inexplicable disappearance of those who sleep.
Playing as Katja, you must survive the devotees of various depraved death cults and try to stay awake. Solve the puzzles of this mysterious world to shatter the horrors of the past.
Key Features:
A psychedelic trip of the senses: Hand-crafted environments combine with a stunning color palette, unique FMV integration, and bending light to submerge the player in a cosmic horror like they’ve never seen before.
A world where sleep means extinction: Step into a unique setting, where an unfathomable phenomenon means that humans are disappearing when they fall asleep. The result is a warring world where dogmatic factions insist they have the one true solution for staying awake.
Arresting audio experience: Musician Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails has crafted an auditory experience to create heart-pumping moments and exhilarating dream-like sequences.
Survive to save the ones you love: Stealth and wits are your only weapons against the warped minds and bodies of humanity’s last remaining citizens. Avoid their twisted experiments, solve the puzzles of a distorted reality, and save the remaining good in the world.
