10 Dead Doves

Horror video game 10 Dead Doves File:10_dead_doves_steam_art.jpg Duonix Studios Duonix Studios Unreal Engine 4 Windows December 13, 2024 Horror,We already said 10 Dead Doves was great a few years back, but it's really great so I'm saying it again https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-already-said-10-dead-doves-was-great-a-few-years-back-but-its-really-great-so-im-saying-it-again 25 October 2024 Rock Paper Shotgun Reuben Nic 22 January 2026 12 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250612235118/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/we-already-said-10-dead-doves-was-great-a-few-years-back-but-its-really-great-so-im-saying-it-again live adventureAmiotte-Beaulieu Sam 27 January 2025 10 Dead Doves Review - Equal parts bold work of art and surreal horror odyssey finds its wings and soars after some early stumbles https://adventuregamehotspot.com/review/3602/10-dead-doves Adventure Game Hotspot 22 January 2026 11 September 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250911204509/https://adventuregamehotspot.com/review/3602/10-dead-doves live Single-player Mark Byram II Sean-Michael Millard Daniel Millard Mark Byram II 10 Dead Doves is a 2024 psychological horror adventure game developed and published by Duonix Studios for Windows. The player must explore environments and converse with characters and examine, collect, and use objects to solve puzzles, while avoiding monsters. Plot Set in 2004, 10 Dead Doves puts the player in the role of Mark Stetson, a disgruntled, terminally ill hiker travelling through the Appalachian Mountains in search of an urban legend named the Ant Farm. Assisted by his friend, a trail angel named Sean Russell, Mark is led to believe the Ant Farm is a mythic structure that will make his dreams come true. While exploring, Mark suffers from episodes of narcoleptic cataplexy that worsen the closer he gets to the Ant Farm, and begins to receive cryptic prophetic dreams from a bird-like poet named the Wren.Bolt Neil 15 September 2022 This Time, It's Weirdly Personal: 10 Dead Doves Does Survival Horror its Own Way https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/489660/this-time-its-weirdly-personal-10-dead-doves-does-survival-horror-its-own-way/ Dread Central Gameplay 10 Dead Doves is a horror adventure game, in which the player controls Mark as he follows Sean through the Appalachian Mountains. The game is presented primarily through fixed-perspective camera angles, with gameplay involving exploration, environmental storytelling, and puzzle-based progression. The game intermittently features segments called Dove Dreams, which are surrealist episodes triggered by Mark's narcolepsy. In these, the player is thrust into story vignettes, usually providing non-chronological fragmented narrative elements. The player's choices within the Dove Dreams control a scale that impacts the ending.Oloman Jordan The singular Appalachian horror of 10 Dead Doves https://postmode.org/investigating-the-singular-appalachian-horror-of-10-dead-doves/ Postmode 13 May 2024 22 January 2026 14 December 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20251214065623/https://postmode.org/investigating-the-singular-appalachian-horror-of-10-dead-doves/ live 10 Dead Doves draws inspiration from Appalachian folklore and surrealist horror, and features a nonlinear narrative and fixed-perspective camera design. Certain levels of 10 Dead Doves contain gameplay styles different to the base game, such as a third-person over-the-shoulder camera, or a first-person horror segment like Slender: The Eight Pages.Mayberry Callista Interview with 10 Dead Doves Developers https://hardcoregamer.com/duonix-studios-appalachian-scares-tricky-character-models-10-dead-doves-interview/ Hardcore Gamer 30 July 2024 22 January 2026 12 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250612235120/https://hardcoregamer.com/duonix-studios-appalachian-scares-tricky-character-models-10-dead-doves-interview/ live Development Development of 10 Dead Doves began in January 2021 as a collaboration between Nashville, Tennessee-based artist Mark Byram II and brothers Daniel and Sean-Michael Millard.Horror Bytes #1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-dead-doves-developer-interview-horror-bytes-1/id1562019228?i=1000611678329 Safe Room The game was funded via a successful Kickstarter campaign after the game's demo was featured in the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc: Spectral Mall, an indie horror game compilation inspired by low poly video games.Clayton Natalie 23 March 2022 Retro horror games are preparing to go beyond the PS1 https://www.pcgamer.com/retro-horror-games-are-preparing-to-go-beyond-the-ps1/ PC Gamer 22 January 2026 20 March 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230320165356/https://www.pcgamer.com/retro-horror-games-are-preparing-to-go-beyond-the-ps1/ live Klepek Patrick 7 February 2020 There's Nothing Scarier Than Horror Games With Crude PlayStation 1 Graphics https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-nothing-scarier-than-horror-games-with-crude-playstation-1-graphics/ Vice 22 January 2026 31 January 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230131084850/https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7q78p/theres-nothing-scarier-than-horror-games-with-crude-playstation-1-graphics live The game features voice acting, names, and likenesses from the game's creators, and includes a stop motion-like effect on its characters' faces, created through a system of photo references and texture coordinate scrolling. The developers cited influences such as Dante's Inferno, Twin Peaks, and House of Leaves, films such as Stalker and Synecdoche, New York, as well as psychological horror game series like Silent Hill and Resident Evil as major inspirations for 10 Dead Doves. 10 September 2022 10 Dev Disclosures about 10 Dead Doves https://pixeldie.com/2022/09/10/10-dev-disclosures-about-10-dead-doves/ Pixel Die 22 January 2026 1 June 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20230601062656/https://pixeldie.com/2022/09/10/10-dev-disclosures-about-10-dead-doves/ live Reception Adventure Game Hotspot critiqued the game's unconventional narrative structure and clunky tank controls. In 2025, 10 Dead Doves was nominated for Best Narrative at the Horror Game Awards, losing to Silent Hill f.2025: Best Narrative Nominees https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-narrative The Horror Game Awards 2026-01-22 2026-02-06 https://archive.today/20260206070207/https://www.thehorrorgameawards.com/best-narrative live References External links https://10deaddoves.com/ Category:2024 video games Category:Fiction about urban legends Category:Indie games Category:Psychological horror games Category:Single-player video games Category:Survival horror video games Category:Video games about the afterlife Category:Video games developed in the United States Category:Video games set in abandoned buildings and structures Category:Video games with low poly graphics