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Dead Head Studios · Published by Breda University of Applied Sciences
Content notice: This is a game about shooting guns with bullets at zombie-like enemies, that's the violence that you're gonna be seeing, gunshots and blood VFX, with the occasional explosion from a grenade on top of that.
Very Positive — 84% positive (67 reviews) · 17 achievements
Last updated 2 Oct 2026
Rise children of the almighty and be guided to your salvation. You must trek a path of mud and blood, but if you walk it together, you will surely have enough strength to tear through these beasts. Grab two friends and shoot zombies in this Venice carnival inspired shooter.
Action, Free To Play · 2025 · More free games
Embark on a mud and blood trek through Venice's carnival as you fight zombies. Join forces with two friends for strength against the undead horde, guided by Dead Head Studios in their 2025 free-to-play shooter.
About this game
Rise up to your duty raven, foul magic has overtaken the beautiful city of Venice. We cannot let this stand. Venice must be purged.
You will be tasked with going through the streets of the accursed city and erasing all that reeks of undeath. Serve well.
The streets are full of them, for the carnival was taking place. Pay no heed to the enemy's numbers, for you will prevail.
An odious miasma hangs in the air and has transformed all the celebrators into mindless husks of what they once were, free them from this hell so that the city can live on and grow old.
Your task will take you all the way to the church, where you must call the horde upon yourself and deliver our god's fury to them.
The subjects of your divine violence will be tenacious and maddened with starvation, you must never let your guard down.
Through the possession, their bodies have deformed beyond recognition. Beware of the large ones and the partially disolved especially.
This foul magic has made them resilient and formidable. It will be a battle hard-fought.
But be not afraid for you are well equipped. You have at your disposal our finest weapons.
The rifles we give you have been infused with prayer and the good will of our Lord, their bullets sear wicked flesh and purge evil souls.
Our explosives carry in them the ashes of great saints, they tear skin and bone alike.
But most of all, we give you a blessed artifact, one passed down through our organization. It heals the wounds of the righteous and brutalizes any heretic in its way.
We wish you good luck warriors, may the light guide thee well.
This game is a 3 player coop PvE shooter where you play as members of a secret organization, Umbra Mortis. You will go through the city of Venice which is overrun by undead carnival-goers.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-8250U
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 2070
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 11
- Processor: Intel Core i7-12700H
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
THE UPDATE IS OUT!!!
We have made it! The biggest (and only (and last)) update for Umbra Mortis is out for you to nab and download on your personal computers.Here's what we added:SOLO PLAY]You asked and we listened, there is now a singleplayer option for the game, which is comparable in difficulty to the multiplayer one.LEVEL EXTENSIONWe added two sections to the level that you can run through, making the game longer. We also put a lot of work into the end of the game in particular, where you will face a brand new final encounter and see a beautiful cutscene if you make it through.STEAM ACHIEVEMENTSYou can collect 17 achievements to flex on your friends with. MUSIC OVERHAULWe added some flourishes to the main gameplay song and added one for the victory screen.MINOR IMPROVEMENTSDifferent colors for the playersOnboarding improvements, so that the mechanics are better understoodBetter guardian bell feedbackSome rebalancing on the combatTouch-ups for the environment artYou can now reconnect if you get disconnected because of internet issuesWe optimized the gameWe have also made a DISCORD SERVER that you can join to engage with the Umbra Mortis community a little more. the link is here: https://discord.gg/bqchauDApsWe hope that you all enjoy playing the new and improved game.Read full article on Community Announcements (Schmidt)Patch NotesOfficial
An Update in the Works
Hello All!We at Deadhead studios have been hard at work on an update.We have been working on it since release and it will be coming out on 24th of June!!here is what we're planning for it:MUSIC OVERHAULWe are planning to put in a new, adaptive track in the level. It will change based on the intensity of the combat.LEVEL EXTENSIONWe will be adding 2 new sections to the level. One will be a canals area (the game is set in Venice after all), and the other will be a church area with a new final encounter.LAST ENCOUNTER OVERHAULWe want to add a final climax to the game that will be a proper ending to our game, one that has enough fanfare around it. Wait to see what it is in the final product!STEAM ACHIEVEMENTSWe will be adding Steam Achievements! including some hidden ones for you to find by yourselves.AN OUTRO CINEMATICOne similar to the one that introduces you to the game when it starts will also be at the end of the game to send you off.SOME MINOR IMPROVEMENTSPlayers can be differentiated by colorImprove the onboardingGuradian Bell improvements (SFX, VFX)Some combat rebalancingEnvironment touch upsA way for you to reconnect if you get disconnectedImproved performanceWe hope that you will enjoy playing the updated game when it comes out.Read full article on Community Announcements (Schmidt)Patch NotesOfficial
Patch 1
We added something small and floppy to the lobby so that you could play in less players than intended if you so desired. But BEWARE!!! This is not the intended way to play the game and you will have a very difficult time completing it.Read full article on Community Announcements (Schmidt)AnnouncementsOfficial
THE GAME IS OUT!!!!
You can now grab two friends and cleanse the city! We hope from the bottom of our hearts that you enjoy the game! And we wish you good luck.Read full article on Community Announcements (Schmidt)AnnouncementsOfficial
The steam page is now live!!!
Hello everyone, my name is Adam and I'm the producer and community manager at Deadhead studios. We are a student team at the Breda University of applied sciences, a dutch university with a study specifically about game creation. We have been working on the game in a team of fluctuating size, throughout development we've gone from 14 to 16 to 23, then back to 19. The team is about half artists, quarter designers and quarter programmers. The whole study is project-based, meaning we have very few lectures and mostly learn by doing, and this is our largest project yet. The school year that we are spending on this game is divided into four, 2 month long blocks, with each of them roughly corresponding to one of the stages of video game production (concepting -> pre-production -> production -> post-release). This year-long project has been a big challenge, but one that pushed us forward a lot. Throughout the whole development we have been plagued by both real life diseases (ironic considering our game's theme) and a lack of clear vision. With the guidance of our lecturers, we were able to climb at least somewhat out of this rut and we think that the final game we'll present to you towards the end of May/start of June will be a fun one. The development had some turbulence, but game devs are a resilient people. The game itself is, as you probably saw on the store page, a Venice based horde shooter with online co-op. You play as members of a secret organization trying to rid Venice of the filthy undead. We are hoping to create an experience upwards of 15 minutes in duration. Unsurprisingly, multiplayer has turned out to be a huge time sink. Even with the help of GAS and the unreal engine replication framework, getting the game to work properly, let alone testing it so that it feels nice difficulty-wise was very difficult, since for any proper playtest, we needed 3 people. The trade-off, of course, is that multiplayer is fun! Running around with friends and shooting at stuff (...Read full article on Community Announcements (Schmidt)
