Athanasia launches in Steam Early Access with dinosaur horror

Athanasia is now available in Steam Early Access, putting its dinosaur-infested research facility in front of players who fancy a survival-horror game where running away can be just as important as shooting. Momentum Games’ first-person horror title launched on 19 October, according to its official Steam listing, and is currently being sold with a 10% launch discount. ¹

The game follows Carmen Flores, a researcher and explorer sent to investigate a mysterious facility in South America after reports of disappearances and strange phenomena. The facility has been overrun by prehistoric predators, and the central challenge is to work out what happened while keeping enough resources in reserve to survive the next encounter.

Athanasia is pitched as an old-school immersive sim rather than a straight corridor shooter. Steam’s description highlights exploration, resource management, crafting and environmental problem-solving, with players able to find hidden routes, collect equipment, create improvised tools and investigate the facility through audio logs and other clues. The game’s official material also points to interactions such as hacking computers, opening doors and refuelling machinery to reach new areas. ¹

The Early Access build covers the first half of the game, with several areas to explore, new weapons and a range of creatures blocking the route to the truth. COGconnected reports that players can break through barriers with a crowbar, restore power, use improvised explosives and slip through ventilation shafts when a fight is a bad idea. It also describes a map system that expects players to mark useful locations themselves, including supplies, locked doors and enemy sightings. ²

That makes Athanasia sound closer to a tense survival-horror sandbox than a dinosaur-themed shooting gallery. Traps, bait and environmental hazards are part of the toolkit, while limited resources mean every fight has a cost. The Steam listing names System Shock and Dino Crisis as inspirations, placing the game firmly in the retro PC horror tradition while adding a prehistoric threat of its own. ¹

Our opinion

Athanasia has a clear hook: a retro-styled research facility, dinosaurs and enough systemic interaction to make survival feel like a problem to solve rather than a queue of enemies to clear. The Early Access launch is also unusually specific about its scope, with the first half of the game available rather than a vague promise of future content. That should give curious players a better idea of what they are buying, although the unfinished format still makes the eventual shape of the full campaign an open question.

For now, the official Steam page lists Athanasia at €16.49 before its launch discount, with the discounted price shown as €14.84 in the store data checked for this report. The game is available on Windows PC. ¹