From Press Release:
Ukraine — May 29, 2026. By day, Dread Fields is a quiet farming game. By night, the dead come up through the soil. Podoba Interactive’s slow-burn folk horror is out now on Steam.
You bought this place from a strange old man, hoping that labor, fresh air, and solitude might bring back some peace. Somewhere no one from your old life would think to look. The days are simple and quiet at first. But the former owner’s secrets won’t stay buried for long, and your peaceful new life soon begins to tear itself apart…
The heart of Dread Fields is its blend of horror and rural life sim. You’ll spend your days on ordinary farm work: milking the cow, feeding the chickens, chopping wood for winter, and hauling water from the well. But the nights are when you learn what the old man left behind.
Dread Fields is now available on Steam for $6.99 with a week-long 15% launch discount. Dread Fields also launches as part of the new Ukrainian Retro Horror bundle, featuring No One Lives Under the Lighthouse and Arcadia Cafe.
Key Features
A rural routine turns rotten. Milk the cow, chop wood, grow crops, pick mushrooms. The everyday farm rhythm lulls you in, until the ground beneath you gives way. Just don’t forget to feed the cat.
Slow-burn dread. Dread Fields isn’t about jump-scares. Feel mounting isolation and the slow, creeping certainty that something on this farm is deeply, deeply wrong.
A Ukrainian village in the early 2000s. Endless sunflower fields, a quiet lake full of fish, a forest at the edge of the property. The kind of place people move to when they want to disappear.
Ukrainian folk horror. Dread Fields blends traditional Ukrainian imagery with the slow, faded atmosphere of the early post-Soviet years.
Short and replayable. The first run takes about 90 minutes, but multiple endings reward players who go back for the secrets they missed. Can you find a way to save everyone on the farm?
Content Warning
Dread Fields features the living dead, murder of people, and depictions of dead animals in an artistic form.
Factsheet
Developer: Podoba Interactive
Publisher: Podoba Interactive
Platforms: PC (Steam)
Genre: Horror
Price: $6.99 (-15% launch discount, first week)
Release Date: May 28, 2026
About Podoba Interactive
Podoba Interactive is an independent team from Ukraine that creates aesthetically charged games rooted in horror-adjacent settings. Their previous games include Back to Hearth, Blessed Burden, and Museum of Monoliths.
