Folklore Hunter | 1.0 Announcement

Folklore Hunter Tracks Down Urban Legends, Graduates from Steam Early Access Jan. 30, 2026

Prepare to hunt the Mothman in new trailer at DreadXP Indie Horror Showcase

NEW ZEALAND — Oct. 23, 2025 — Folklore Hunter, the co-op urban legend hunting survival

game developed by Liquid Donkey Games, takes aim at the Mothman when it graduates from

Steam Early Access on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, as revealed at DreadXP’s Indie Horror Showcase

today with a brand new trailer.

Liquid Donkey Games has also revealed a new update available today, with full Steam

Workshop support now implemented for the community to create and share their own custom

content and mods. Versions for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch platforms

are also in development, set to launch later in 2026.

When a father goes missing under mysterious circumstances looking for his kids, a village finds

itself cursed by creatures of the night, or strange things are afoot at abandoned military biolabs,

they call you. Dropped in uncharted lands with limited supplies and supernatural threats, your

team has the skills to find an explanation for the unexplainable.

Track and hunt three mythic creatures in a fully-designed main campaign through a series of

Story Hunts supporting single and multiplayer modes. Set up traps and cameras to capture the

location of the horned Wendigo. Solve cryptic riddles and uncover hidden storylines that brought

the vampiric Strigoi to a now vacant village. Find a way to communicate with the Mothman via

electromagnetic radiation, but don’t linger. Whatever’s out there is tracking you, too.

Wander through wooded forests, dank caves, mysterious shrines, sealed catacombs, haunted

churches, cult lairs, abandoned military outposts, and other handcrafted environments on a hunt

for the world’s most fabled creatures of the night. Discover clues from bloody notes, obscurely

placed skeletons, and other oddities to combine wit and intuition and outsmart otherworldly

dangers.

Learn what brought each creature into this world and find a way to contain it before it takes any

more lives. Take these lessons and apply them to shorter Contract Hunts to tackle randomized

locations and puzzles, and earn rewards for living to unlock new gear, traps, and other helpful

equipment to personalize your own hunting techniques.

“There are so many approaches to hunting these supernatural beings,” said Jayde Cohen,

Founder and sole developer at Liquid Donkey Games. “Shotguns, crossbows, exploding gas

cans, crucifixes — even runes with inscription tools to help survive. Pick your poison. How you

use them, though? That’s a story for you to tell.”

Folklore Hunter chases after dark rustlings from the woods in Q1 2026 on PC via Steam. For

more information, follow developer Liquid Donkey Games on Twitter and join everyone huddled

around the fire over on Discord.

Assets

Streaming Trailer

Press Kit

Liquid Donkey Website

About Liquid Donkey Games

Liquid Donkey Games is an independent game development studio based out of New Zealand,

founded and operated by solo developer Jayde Cohen. Creativity and fun fuel Jayde’s creations,

and when combined with his passion for the suspenseful and foreboding bring about survival

horror experiences like Folklore Hunter supported by the chaotic camaraderie of co-op. Jayde’s

storytelling techniques embed themselves into the very worlds he creates, and offer a unique

perspective of humanity told through interactive, emergent scenarios.

Media Contact

Zachery Bennett / Carter Dotson Stride PR for Liquid Donkey Games zachery.bennett@stridepr.com / carter@stridepr.com