Akolyta
A first-person descent into Gorenwille City, where a string of theater murders unearths a Cold War conspiracy — and costs one detective everything, including his sanity. Get ready to lose everything.
— About Game
You play as Marshall Gregory Prime, a detective in Gorenwille City. In 2000, after years of hardship, he finally decides to tell his story — and it begins a decade earlier, in 1990, with a case of murders around the Gorenwille City Theater.
That case pulls him into a dark conspiracy with roots in the Cold War. The further Marshall chases the truth, the more he comes face to face with the worst products of the MK Ultra program — and an enemy far closer to home: his own deteriorating mind. He will lose everything. The only question is how much of himself is left when he does.
Case Board
Track down clues across Gorenwille and map them onto your Case Board. Find and explore three clues to close an investigation — but the evidence rarely points one way. Every investigation has more than one possible conclusion, and the truth you settle on is yours to carry.
evidence
Scattered through the environments are documents and audio recordings detailing the buried history of Gorenwille. Read the files, play the audiologues on your tape player, and piece together a backstory the city would rather keep silent. Miss one and a critical gap opens in your understanding.
Three Trees
Earn XP by exploring, solving investigations, recovering documents and audiologues, and completing objectives. Spend it to learn special abilities across three skill trees — Physical Conditioning, Investigative Gear, and Environmental Traversal & Perception — that make the descent through Gorenwille a little more survivable.
— Characters
Marshall Gregory Prime
GORENWILLE CITY · SEPTEMBER 18, 1959 · DETECTIVE, G.P.D.
The only child of George and Agnes Prime. After his father’s sudden disappearance, Marshall and his mother spiraled into poverty and lost their home — relocating to the Harrison Quarter, a district plagued by systemic neglect and rampant crime.
That crucible defined him. A lifelong commitment to protecting the vulnerable carried him from the Brown Law Enforcement High School to the Gorenwille Police Department — and to the partner who would become his closest friend, Benjamin K. Black.
— media
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— News
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Stepping Into New Light – UE 5.8 migration
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in NewsAkolyta is moving to Unreal Engine 5.8 — and to the new radiance-cache lighting that lets us light Gorenwille in real time without ever letting the frame rate flinch.
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Behind the Scenes: Building the Soundscape of Akolyta
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Audio is one of the most important parts of Akolyta. In this development blog, we explain how FMOD, Google Resonance, 7.1 audio, HRTF, and our custom Ptero-Ambient system help us create a more immersive, unpredictable, and unsettling horror experience.
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We Move to Unreal Engine 5
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in NewsAkolyta enters a new chapter as we switch development to Unreal Engine 5. We made this decision after evaluating the future of CRYENGINE and listening to our community. The move allows us to focus fully on the game and rebuild the first level with modern tools, faster workflows, and long‑term stability.
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