Weird, right?
Black Lantern Collective and solo developer Simon Lukasik have revealed their upcoming title Kopernicus: Extraction. It’s an incremental horror game where staying alive isn’t just about fighting monsters. In fact, it’s more about digging through the traumatic nightmares and unresolved memories hiding inside your own mind.
The SCC KOPERNICUS exploration ship crashes at the edge of known space, leaving a lone biologist-cosmonaut as the only survivor. The WANDA escape capsule managed to eject you at exactly the right moment.
Your only protection is an anti-rust aerosol can and a lighter. Some aliens attack you, and you manage to burn one of the creatures to ashes. But later, you realise something else is wrong. The alien world uses your mind against you, creating horrifying creatures from your fears and memories.
To figure out who you are and why you ended up here, you’ll need to build the WERNYHORA Extractor and perform neural tissue biopsies with the K3MIX device. Only then might you understand why longing seems to tear at your heart even more fiercely than your own instinct to survive.
So, during the day, you’ll be expanding and maintaining your base. At night, you’ll be desperately trying to survive. In between all that, you’ll be constructing tools, upgrading weapons, and extracting fragmented memories in hopes of uncovering the truth behind everything that’s happened.
The game will release on Steam in Q4 2026. It’s being developed by Simon Lukasik, who horror fans might already know as the creator of the wonderfully disturbing cartoon psychological horror Bad Cheese. He’s also the co-creator of cult indie games Bulb Boy and Poopdie.
Visually, Kopernicus: Extraction uses a retro-inspired 2-bit style. It’s a top-down incremental horror game with a cosy/gore feel. Yep, that’s probably one of the strangest genre combinations you’ll hear all year. Take a look at the game below.
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