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Handmade Interactive LLC · Published by Handmade Interactive LLC · Official site ↗
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Sci-fi Horror now comes to Metroidvania, Creating The Horrovania, Begin your most disturbing adventure to the colony of EC-21 JANUS, KILL, LOOT, AND SURVIVE, and Immerse yourself in the huge open-world hand-drawn environments with massive details.
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Embark on a thrilling adventure through the hauntingly detailed environments of EC-21 JANUS. In The Red Selene, you'll navigate complex mazes, fight off relentless foes, and uncover secrets in this unique blend of action, adventure, and indie gaming.
About this game
Inspired by the admired Dead Space Series, Discover the massive horrifying world of The Red Selene, Survive through the connected worlds of Colony EC-21 Janus, and travel to the Red Selene itself and back to uncover the story of yourself and the horrors that happened in the colony. Enjoy the technical and artistic achievements of indie classic gaming!
Jump into the new genre of the ultimate sci-fi horror survival and all-out action now with your beloved pixel-art classic games. Find, Search, and grab the top items weapons, and resources through your journey use them in the modern combat system with a traditional and retro vibe, and enjoy killing tons of different enemies in your own way! Immerse yourself in the huge hand-drawn environments with massive details, You'll never rest easy as the environmental audio design is always there to make you experience a new level of fear!
Massive Connected World
All-out horror Metroidvania
Classic survival
Large Upgrade and Skilltree
Meet +100 Different Enemies Humans and Monsters
Gorifing Boss Fights
Search and Loot the world
Exploration
A Story of LOVE, HORROR, AND FAMILY
In the year 2858, Join Aaron a galaxy bounty hunter, on his journey to EC-21 JANUS, a state-of-the-art space colony on a secret mission to research and harvest THE RED SELENE, a moon with robust material and an unknown element, and find the dark horrors and mysteries of this ship.
As in Aaron's last dog fight with bandits, his ship is heavily damaged while making his space travel through a space portal he'll end up in an uncoordinated system and finds out the EC-21 JANUS, he'll embark on the classified space colony to seek help repairing his ship to only find the deep silence in the colony and the dark mysteries behind it. Through the roller coaster of his journey, he'll find out he can't relate more to EC-21 JANUS.
Survive through the darkest horrors and fight the most brutal creatures in the galaxy to discover your story of TRUTH, LOVE, AND REVENGE!
Your survival depends on how you fight, whether in the quiet corners of the EC-21 JANUS or in the middle of the waves of the monster running to you, you'll have to cut the legs, use your axe, and find a new weapon when you are out of bullets to make the survival happen!
Modern Shooter Design
Moves, Stamina, and action affect your shooting
Upgrade your character for ultimate powers
Find powerful weapons to wipe the RED DEATHS
In every inch of EC-21 JANUS, there could be an item that could help you survive, Searching, looting, and managing your resources is the key to success in making survival happen.
Search every corner of the environment and you can find valuable items! Anything can help you survive and make you more powerful in facing your enemies. Cheese what to carry wisely and manage your resources to master your survival
Platforming through the dark ruins of EC-21 JANUS, Solving puzzles, and escaping the most fatal events
Explore and begin your horror adventure in the massive open world of the EC-21 JANUS colony, Solve puzzles and platforms to discover new evidence. myths to uncover the horror history of humanity
Stay altered as danger lies in every corner of the colony, you are alone yet are never alone! it is possible that every enemy you see makes theirs to you! Be ready and you are never safe!
Be vigilant, Be Ware, and never rest easy that there are enemies in every corner of this world that want to rip you apart and make you one of them!
DEVELOPER"s ROADMAP
We would like to thank you for joining us! We are now in the Pre-alpha stage of the game. we have tons of ideas and we are taking our time executing each of them perfectly! We'll be updating this section and keeping you guys posted!
WE ARE SMASHING IT! WE WORK HARD TO MAKE IT FUN!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: Intel i5+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Recommended
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: Intel i5+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 460 / Radeon HD 7800 or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Lots of good games in the list and The Red Selene is among them!
Check out The Red Selene among 13 Badass games Thanks to MOB-X Game (find their YouTube channel here) The Red Selene is among 12 other badass games and it's an honor! Check out the full video here: ENJOY! Keep us going! 🛸Follow us: https://x.com/HandmadeLLC 📺Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@handmadeinteractiveLLC 🫶Kickstarter: theredselenekickstarter.com News List: www.theredselene.com ❤️WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381860/The_Red_Selene/ Credits: https://www.youtube.com/@mob-xgameRead full article on Community Announcements (Handmade Interactive LLC)AnnouncementsOfficial
Devlog #3 is out!
Jetpack, New attacking mechanic, New Spawn and jumpscare systems, and video logs, join us on our first Video Devlog, Devlog #3 Support us by: 🛸Follow us: https://x.com/HandmadeLLC 📺Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@handmadeinteractiveLLC 🫶Kickstarter: theredselenekickstarter.com Sig-up: www.theredselene.com https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381860/The_Red_Selene/Read full article on Community Announcements (Handmade Interactive LLC)AnnouncementsOfficial
Did You Know: 12/21 Is the longest night of the year?
DID YOU KNOW... 12/21 is the LONGEST Night of the year and is celebrated as Yalda in the Persian night. As for us, we enjoy the darkest and the longest darkness in the earth's time together, awaiting our journey to board EC-21 JANUS! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43954657/ca60d8b84b402d4b63b32d7efdd19569bf7b79c5.png Yalda night, also known as Shab-e Yalda, is an ancient Iranian festival celebrated on the longest night of the year, marking the arrival of winter and the triumph of light over darkness. Families gather together, stay up late, eat special foods like pomegranates and watermelon, recite poetry, and engage in storytelling to celebrate the occasion. It's a time of warmth, connection, and anticipation for the longer days ahead. To send us positive energy: 🛸Follow us: https://x.com/HandmadeLLC 📺Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@handmadeinteractiveLLC 🫶Kickstarter: theredselenekickstarter.com Test List: www.theredselene.com ❤️WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381860/The_Red_Selene/Read full article on Community Announcements (Handmade Interactive LLC)AnnouncementsOfficial
Happy Holidays!
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43954657/1f9abe6ad652ba65e0001172e8244ae9358d2bbb.png Happy Holidays Fellas! We wish you the very best time, entertaining times full of excitement! Stay warm and remember horror never sleeps! In another dimension of time, a big horror awaits for 2024! To send us positive energy: 🛸Follow us: https://x.com/HandmadeLLC 📺Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@handmadeinteractiveLLC 🫶Kickstarter: theredselenekickstarter.com Test List: www.theredselene.com ❤️WISHLIST WISHLIST WISHLIST https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381860/The_Red_Selene/Read full article on Community Announcements (Handmade Interactive LLC)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Red Selene | Devlog #2
Are you feeling unwell lately? having excessive caughs? some blood drops from your nose? Can't sleep because of reddish nightmares? the red dust, the true power is kicking in! and You are on your way to becoming immortal... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43954657/43f30f1bb2ae371825c36d66963fe0778bd65bb5.png Hey folks! hope you all doing great and having fun in the coming holiday season! We've been hard at work in the last couple of months and we are excited to share our progress with you guys! in this Devlog we are going to share the challenges of creating a 2D horror game, with our sole goal to scare YOU! while making it fun and entertaining... Jump Scares Our first step in making the horror was to get creative, we simply found out that ordinary jump scares are not enough for a 2D game so... We've created a vast unique number of jump scares, all designed and created in unique ways, we've created complex animations for each of the characters and come up with narrative and game flow-driven jump scares, where they can scare you to death even in the 2D Space! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43954657/10d268ff1e87976521f9c9e2cfae44e60f4879a4.png Enemy Design Changes A major change in our design from the original idea was to categorize our enemies, our original idea was to make a city of different-looking enemies and pack them into different classes. To make the game more fluent and easy to get we've categorized each enemy into a class. this gave us the opportunity to work on different enemies with different capabilities even wider and in a more creative way. the players can now easily define the strengths and weaknesses of each enemy by looking at them visually, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43954657/763f2660b5654720e4e7d20603bb5c41f9c9a63d.png Text logs Text logs are now available in the game we've implemented them, each text log describes a narrative and an event that happened in the colony... gotta look around and collect them to unlock deeper history, narratives, and events that occurred on EC-21 {STEA...Read full article on Community Announcements (Handmade Interactive LLC)
