Clever Trickster, a Belgian studio, is heading in a very different direction with its next project. Sefton Asylum has officially been announced for Steam, introducing a first-person horror experience that blends job simulation, exploration, and survival horror inside an isolated psychiatric hospital set in the mid-20th century.
Players take on the role of a night nurse working alone through a series of increasingly tense overnight shifts. On the surface, the job is routine, involving elements such as monitoring patients, diagnosing conditions, and keeping the ward under control until morning. Beneath that, there’s a personal motive driving the experience forward. The protagonist has taken the position to investigate her brother’s disappearance, only to uncover something far more disturbing hidden within Sefton’s walls.
The core of the game revolves around time management and difficult choices. Each shift forces players to decide how to spend limited time. You can focus on treating patients and maintaining order, or risk slipping into restricted areas to search for clues and uncover the asylum’s secrets. That trade-off becomes more dangerous as the night progresses, especially since failure carries lasting consequences. Patients left untreated do not simply disappear, and each loss contributes to making the asylum more unstable.
Game Features:
- Impossible choices, with every shift built around a constant trade-off between care, investigation and survival
- A distinct blend of job sim, exploration and first-person horror unfolding inside a secluded asylum
- Medical pressure as players stabilize patients under time pressure, with limited resources and no way to save everyone
- A dark mystery centered on a missing brother and the horrors hidden within Sefton
- Psychological horror shaped by supernatural threats, growing dread and deeper unknown forces
Drawing clear inspiration from Herbert West’s Reanimator, the game leans into themes of reanimation and forbidden medicine, favoring biological horror over cosmic elements. The game will be priced at $11.99 USD upon release, and you can watch the announcement trailer below.
