Unsettling Horror Tale VILE: Exhumed Will Be Published by DreadXP in 2025

Los Angeles, USA - March 18, 2025 — Solo developer Cara Cadaver and horror publisher DreadXP are announcing today that VILE: Exhumed is coming this year, supported by the publisher’s XP Ultra program. VILE: Exhumed is a narrative horror game that tells the uncomfortable tale of parasocial obsession gone horribly wrong. 

In VILE: Exhumed, you’ll wade through the decades-old computer that explores the mind of a deeply disturbed individual. Details around adult film actress Candy Corpse’s recent retirement is just one thing you might uncover as you sift through forums, hard drives, and emails to discover what secrets lie within. VILE: Exhumed deals with the heavy topics of trauma, sexual violence, entitlement, and violence against women. Player discretion is strongly advised.

Developer Cara Cadaver began working on VILE as a personal project, and the deeply cathartic experience has resonated with many since the release of its prototype on itch.io in 2024. She relies on grounded substance to build a tale that is psychological horror on a more human level, one that has resonated with many players in today’s online age. “VILE is a page ripped right from my journal. I hope it is as uncomfortable and gut-churning to play as it was for me to make. Seeing others play the original version and relate to it so deeply was incredibly special. This expanded version of the game includes even more of the emotional and literal guts of the original. I can’t wait for those guts to get untangled, and for players to arrange them in a meaningful way themselves,” said Cadaver, who founded her studio, Final Girl Games, and plans to maintain a personal voice in all her future work.

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VILE: Exhumed launches on Steam later this year.

For more information:

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280010/VILE_Exhumed/

Read a 2024 interview piece on GamesRadar+: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/horror/bite-size-horror-vile-is-uncomfortable-important-and-truly-therapeutic-and-its-coming-to-make-you-squirm-on-steam/

Follow Cara Cadaver on X: https://x.com/dirtlord77

Follow DreadXP on X: https://twitter.com/DreadXPGames

Follow DreadXP on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreadxpgames

Join the DreadXP Discord: https://discord.gg/JTPfXdSFXq

Press kit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HZlbaA1sxHqICOhCA8t7VR1bxKYKD-wh

Final Girl Games is the solo developer Cara Cadaver, who is based in Canada. Cara started developing games in 2022, previous releases from Final Girl Games include Attachment Not Found, and the original version of VILE on Itch.Io. 

DreadXP is a leading independent horror games publisher. DreadXP’s goal is to seek out and publish great titles, and uplift members of the indie dev community. DreadXP releases include award-winning games such as The Mortuary Assistant, Sucker for Love: First Date, My Friendly Neighborhood, Dread Delusion, and the Dread X Collections, an anthology series of mini-horror games. DreadXP’s upcoming titles include Heartworm, White Knuckle, and Paranormal Activity. DreadXP is a sister company of the horror media website Dread Central, as well as the independent horror film production company, DREAD.

To learn more about DreadXP, please visit www.dreadxp.com.

XP Ultra is a publishing program by DreadXP intended to highlight smaller but impactful horror games that break new ground. The first game published under this initiative was 2024’s FLATHEAD, and VILE: Exhumed is next to join the lineup.