Garage51 has announced CORDURA, a cooperative psychological horror game set in a distorted Victorian era, where up to four players must infiltrate corrupted buildings to recover “Roses of the Night” before time runs out. It will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.
“With CORDURA, we wanted to move away from scripted jumpscares and focus on the paranoia of not knowing who to trust,” said Garage51 in a press release. “In these scenarios, silence keeps you hidden, but if you don’t talk to each other, you won’t make it out”.
Here is an overview of the game, via Garage51:
About
CORDURA is a cooperative psychological horror game where up to four players enter a Victorian mansion to retrieve the Roses of the Night before time runs out and the house seals them inside. But as sanity fades, the night begins to mimic your companions, using their bodies and voices to deceive you from within.
Every extraction becomes a tense race against the clock, as the mansion shifts and evolves throughout the night, growing darker and more disturbing as the bells toll. Procedural layouts, permadeath and unpredictable encounters turn each playthrough into a claustrophobic descent into paranoia, fear, and fractured sanity.
Story
Break in, take it, get out…
Science has taught mankind to no longer fear the night. Culture and reason flourished in an age of technological progress and prosperity: scholars studying until dawn, decadent parties glowing under electric light. In forgetting the nature of the night, humanity has provoked its rebellion.
Dozens of mansions are found corrupted by night every morning, their halls twisted by the night’s influence. Those who dwell within are no longer themselves, reduced to hollow puppets of the night. And those who dare to enter are slowly lost to their own minds.
Yet greed prevails. Within these corrupted estates grows a rare mineral known as the Rose of the Night. From it, Ambrosia is extracted, a powerful aphrodisiac and neurostimulant, coveted by the new aristocracy for their lavish gatherings.
The desperate and the reckless are sent night after night to harvest Ambrosia from these forsaken places. They live by a single rule:
Break in, take it, get out…
Few ever return but hunger always finds its volunteers.
Gameplay Loop
As a Contractor, you assign a Worker to each incursion. Workers are sent into procedurally generated labyrinths to extract Ambrosia from the Roses of the Night, venturing inside alongside up to three other players. No two nights are the same, and every descent into the mansion reshapes the dangers that await.
Surviving an incursion leaves its mark. Workers return bearing scars and coins, which can be used to upgrade their drill and sidearm, increasing both their efficiency—and the risks they take. Those who do not return are lost forever.
Each Worker enters the labyrinth equipped with a radio, maintaining constant contact with the Control Room. From there, another player oversees the operation with access to the map and a powerful lantern. Light and sound are double-edged tools: the lantern reveals safe paths but generates noise, and drilling Ambrosia faster yields greater rewards at the cost of drawing unwanted attention. The night listens. Disturb it too much, and the creatures that once were human will come to claim those who break its silence.
As the night deepens, one of the Workers begins to lose their sanity. To recover it, they must reunite with a companion—but there is always the lingering doubt of whether that ally has arrived in time… or if the night now wears their face.
When the incursion timer ends, the mansion’s doors seal shut. Any Worker still inside is left to the labyrinth and devoured by what lurks within. Death is permanent, and a fallen Worker must be replaced before the next descent. Each procedurally generated labyrinth also harbors a different roaming threat, forcing players to learn new patterns of survival with every night they endure.
CORDURA blends cooperative horror with asymmetric roles, permanent consequences, and a living procedural mansion that grows darker and more hostile as the night advances.
Key Features
- Coordinated Cooperative Horror
- Up to four players per incursion, with one of them guiding the team from the Control Room.
- Fallen Workers are gone forever. Permadeath is permanent, and recovering their bodies and equipment is left to the companions discretion.
- Tight coordination is essential to achieve a clean extraction and avoid casualties.
- Procedural Labyrinths That Evolve Through the Night
- Labyrinths are procedurally generated with dynamic lighting, ensuring that no two incursions are ever the same.
- As the night advances, shifting light and creeping corruption reshape the paths, making familiar routes unreliable.
- Mark the walls to find your way back. Do not rely blindly on the Controller—no one knows how the night will end.
- Mimic System: Verbal Deception
- Within the labyrinth, the night lures you into traps by calling you by name.
- Those who fall are reclaimed by the darkness and may return, wearing familiar faces and voices.
- The Mimic system enables complex verbal interactions designed to erode your sanity and sow doubt among the team.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.