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Isle of Leil

A first person story driven horror game set on a desolate island frozen in time. Face the terrors that roam on the island. Use your wit and sneak around the island. Solve the puzzles and avoid the darkness, find your mother and make it out alive!

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Curtis Hawes
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Unknown
Release
October 9, 2025
297 days ago
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About the Game

SOMETHING IS HIDING ON THE ISLAND OF LEIL

Bentley is on a mission to find his mother, Samantha, after she disappeared during an archaeological trip to the medieval settlement of Leil. Traveling to the island shrouded in shadow and mystery, Bentley blindly follows to bring her back – but the time-locked, blood-thirsty creatures of Leil await.

Loosely based on Dante’s Inferno, you will venture through the island with only a trail of Samantha’s discoveries to follow. Cassette tapes, diary entries, ancestral secrets – the story descends with each discovery you make.

ABOUT THIS GAME

Isle of Leil is a first-person story driven horror developed by Curtis Hawes under his new studio Adversity Interactive.

Venture through an open landscape and find cassette tapes to uncover the whereabouts of your missing mother. Be wary, these environments can be treacherous! Navigate fog and water, unstable platforms and old ruins. Immerse yourself into the world and step in the shoes of Bentley a troubled London teenager in search for his missing mother. find clues, navigate the traps and hide from the monsters!

The island hosts different spaces frozen in time, navigate an authentic medieval environment, caves and sewers... and who knows where the monsters may take you if your caught! Chaos destruction allows you to break objects to find hidden secrets and areas on the island.

Meet unique NPC's throughout the game, they give meaningful dialogue, clues, hints and directive amongst your journey.

Collecting keys, finding secrets and slowly uncovering the mystery of your mothers disappearance will aggravate the cultists and spectres around the island so be careful! who knows who or what you might run into... 

FEATURES

  • Dynamic Monsters

  • Beautiful Landscapes

  • Physics based interactions

  • Linear open world story telling

Taking influence from the creators of "Amnesia" and "Everybody's Gone To The Rapture" Isle of Leil introduces a fresh story-driven horror experience all created in Unreal Engine 5.

NOTES

Isle of Leil has been developed by one person as a passion project. I'm looking forward to sharing what I have created and seeing my studio grow for future projects.

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