Taiwanese developer Softstar Entertainment has unveiled its latest first-person horror title, Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol, adapted from the anime series Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre. The game now has a Steam page live, and a chilling 15-second teaser gives a glimpse into its unsettling world.
In the game, you take on the role of a college student with amnesia trapped inside a sinister Western mansion. With only a broken smartphone and fragments of memory as your guides, you and two companions must navigate winding corridors, solve environmental puzzles, and survive ever-creeping horrors. The mansion is alive with disturbing phenomena: floating balloon heads, creeping black hair, and distorted reality all play a part in eroding your grip on sanity.
The development team promises faithful recreations of classic Junji Ito characters and scenes, layered with new horror elements to heighten immersion. To bring the world to life, the studio employed full-body motion capture and professional voice acting. Actors described their work as physically and mentally taxing—emphasizing how their performances were molded to feel unnatural and tense in service of the horror atmosphere.
Softstar describes An Infinite Gaol as an “oppressively immersive horror experience” where you confront hallucinations, cyclical terror, and twisted humanity. The setting blends surreal dread with psychological tension, making every corner of the mansion a potential threat.
The game is now up for wishlist on Steam. Fans are encouraged to follow its social channels for further updates and reveal trailers in the coming months.
