{"id":375730,"date":"2026-08-23T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375730"},"modified":"2026-08-23T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:20:05","slug":"ironwake-gets-a-release-date-bleak-sci-fi-horror-arrives-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ironwake-gets-a-release-date-bleak-sci-fi-horror-arrives-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Ironwake gets a release date: bleak sci-fi horror arrives in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enunion Team\u2019s <em>Ironwake<\/em> arrives on October 28, 2026. It\u2019s a sci-fi horror game with a grim premise, somewhere between the cold mechanical dread of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/terminator-returns-to-the-video-game-this-time-in-an-open-world-and-early-access\" rel=\"noopener\">The Terminator<\/a><\/em> and the off-kilter, empty-space anxiety of <em>The Backrooms<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You play as a Soviet-era industrial robot carrying an uploaded human consciousness, sealed inside a bunker under the ruins of Kazakhstan in 2050 and sent in to retrieve a valuable data drive. <em>Ironwake<\/em> isn\u2019t built as a long campaign. It\u2019s a <strong>straight, linear survival horror<\/strong> experience that runs about 1.5 to 2 hours, focused on stealth, puzzles, a tight claustrophobic mood, a strange voice on the radio, and an enemy that can\u2019t be killed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If compact, oppressive horror is your thing, and you\u2019d rather sit with danger than hack through filler, <em>Ironwake<\/em> looks like one to keep an eye on. Enunion Team seems to be a solo developer project. There\u2019s already a <strong>no-commentary demo<\/strong> gameplay video online if you want a closer look, but for anything beyond that, you\u2019ll have to wait for full reviews and the October 28, 2026 release.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enunion Team\u2019s Ironwake arrives on October 28, 2026. It\u2019s a sci-fi horror game with a grim premise, somewhere between the cold mechanical dread of The Terminator and the off-kilter, empty-space anxiety of The Backrooms. You play as a Soviet-era industrial robot carrying an uploaded human consciousness, sealed inside a bunker under the ruins of Kazakhstan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ironwake-gets-a-release-date-bleak-sci-fi-horror-arrives-in-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ironwake gets a release date: bleak sci-fi horror arrives in 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9336,"featured_media":375729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375731,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375730\/revisions\/375731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375730"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375730"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375730"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}