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Watch trailer on Steam ↗Playback Trauma®: The Beach
Undying Joy · Published by Undying Joy · Official site ↗
Content notice: This game contains blood and implied death
Mixed — 63% positive (27 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
After a long and harrowing day, you have come to the beach to unwind. Something is different about tonight though. It's just the beach, there's nothing out there. Right?
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Adventure, Simulation, Casual · 2022 · More under £5 games
Explore a serene yet unsettling beachscape in Playback Trauma®: The Beach. After a challenging day, you seek respite only to find the usual tranquility replaced by eerie anomalies.
About this game
Playback Trauma: The Beach is a 5-15 minute found-footage horror game set on the beach at night.
Explore and learn more about those who came before you. Make your way to the shoreline where something waits beyond the clouds.
Features:
Gameplay: Primarily a "Walking Simulator" with a heavy focus on exploration and story.
Explore: Discover remnants of something that is corrupting the area, and find the shore.
Immersive graphics: Realistic art all seen through the lens of your trusted camcorder.
Setting: The game world is inspired by a real beachside town in New Jersey, and is just as terrifying.
Psychological Horror: Navigate the sights and sounds of the beach without approaching your wits end.
Explore and learn more about those who came before you. Make your way to the shoreline where something waits beyond the clouds.
Features:
Gameplay: Primarily a "Walking Simulator" with a heavy focus on exploration and story.
Explore: Discover remnants of something that is corrupting the area, and find the shore.
Immersive graphics: Realistic art all seen through the lens of your trusted camcorder.
Setting: The game world is inspired by a real beachside town in New Jersey, and is just as terrifying.
Psychological Horror: Navigate the sights and sounds of the beach without approaching your wits end.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3470
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 2GB / AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB
- Storage: 4 GB available space
Supported Languages
English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
The Newest Playback Trauma Game is Coming Soon!!
Important Note: Purchase the Playback Trauma bundle for a 10% discount on the series! The store page for the newest Playback Trauma game has been launched! Instead of a beach or a highway, this time you'll be exploring a forest while looking for your lost dog Marla. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878640/Playback_Trauma_The_Dog/utm_source=pttb_news This very same forest has been the bane of New Jersey residents for years, as seen here: Can you find Marla and escape the forest together safely? - JonathanRead full article on Community Announcements (RIDENTEM)Patch NotesOfficial
Major Language Update!
For the last few months we've been working on a big update to bring this game to a larger audience due to some amazing people who took the time to help me. Thanks to the translators who assisted with this: French/Dutch - Pierre Van Der Heyde German - Nat Spanish - Tawny Italian - Aurora PT brazil - Denilson Oliveira PT PT - Eduardo "Spring" Amazonas Russian - Kateryfied Turkish - Ebru Nilay Vural Danish - Stine Norwegian - Stian Swedish - Martin Haggstrom Polish - Jacek Wącior Finnish - Maria Japanese - Sachiko Miura Chinese - Horace Pan Korean - Phimze Czech - Halka B. Hungarian - adri0310 Romanian - Miahela Thai - Phimze Ukrainian - Liz Unfortunately after some technical difficulties with the company Apple I've had to drop support for Mac and similar products entirely. That means this update and the game in itself will only be available for Windows systems. In the event this changes in the future a similar update like this will be made and you will be notified. I'm sorry for how inconvenient this is, but I hope to make up for this shortcoming in the future. To all those who have been traumatized, thank you! There's more to come - JonathanRead full article on Community Announcements (RIDENTEM)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Newest Playback Trauma is here!!
Important Note: Purchase the Playback Trauma Series bundle for a 10% discount on the series! We've been hard at work for the last year to bring an even bigger part of the Playback Trauma universe to life. If you've purchased 'PT: The Beach' I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I'm honored that the game reached as many people as it did. It's been an odd journey, and for better or worse there's no end in sight. - JonathanRead full article on Community Announcements (RIDENTEM)
