{"id":9273,"date":"2026-09-04T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/hunters-moon-ps5-folk-horror-october-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T20:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:28:03","slug":"hunters-moon-ps5-folk-horror-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/hunters-moon-ps5-folk-horror-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter&#8217;s Moon: PS5 Folk Horror Exclusive Launches 26 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation&#8217;s September State of Play delivered a surprise for PS5 owners in Singapore: <strong>Hunter&#8217;s Moon<\/strong>, a first-person historical folk horror game from indie studio Twin Swans, launches <strong>26 October 2026<\/strong> exclusively on PS5 \u2014 the same day as the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n<h2>One Night in 1644 England<\/h2>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hunters-moon-pursuer.webp?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A torch-bearing pursuer strides through a dark field in Hunter's Moon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Twin Swans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Set entirely across a single night in 17th-century rural England, the game puts you in the boots of Lilith Thorne \u2014 a woman accused of witchcraft and hunted through forests, moors, and a darkened village by three pursuers: a self-styled Witchfinder General, a village magistrate, and a local huntsman. The historical backdrop is real: Twin Swans drew on Matthew Hopkins&#8217; 1644 witch-hunting campaigns and his 1647 publication <em>The Discovery of Witches<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The game is first-person \u2014 a rarity in the folk horror genre \u2014 and its entire story unfolds in one unbroken night, which makes every decision feel heightened. There is no morning to outlast.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen at the Window, Live Another Hour<\/h2>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hunters-moon-eavesdrop.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"First-person view looking up at a glowing door in Hunter's Moon, showing the eavesdropping mechanic\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Twin Swans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The standout mechanic is what Twin Swans calls an immersive-theatre-inspired eavesdropping system. Press against a window or door and Lilith listens in on the village going about its night \u2014 and over 100 fully voiced characters carry information that could keep her alive: warnings, folk remedies, the whereabouts of sacred items, songs that might soften a pursuer&#8217;s resolve. Knowledge is your only armour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gt-video\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bKMaeHoJY2A\" title=\"Hunter's Moon - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;\" allow=\"accelerometer;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture;web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption>Hunter&#8217;s Moon \u2014 Announce Trailer via PlayStation on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The Stanley Parable Meets Everybody&#8217;s Gone to the Rapture<\/h2>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hunters-moon-village.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A stylised masked mummer in green robes stands beside a half-timbered cottage under the moonlight in Hunter's Moon\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of Twin Swans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twin Swans is a new studio, but its creative leads come with substantial indie pedigree. Writer-director Alicia Contestabile and co-founder William Pugh both worked on <em>The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe<\/em>. Composer Jessica Curry \u2014 whose score for <em>Everybody&#8217;s Gone to the Rapture<\/em> won a BAFTA \u2014 is also on the project, alongside team members whose credits span <em>The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope<\/em>, <em>The Witcher 3<\/em>, and <em>Signalis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are thrilled to finally announce Hunter&#8217;s Moon \u2014 a first-person historical narrative folk-horror game coming exclusively to PlayStation 5 on October 26,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2026\/09\/03\/hunters-moon-an-immersive-historical-folk-horror-launches-october-26-on-ps5\/\">Contestabile wrote on the PlayStation Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The concept traces back to 2019, when Contestabile first developed it as a screenplay while at Crows Crows Crows, before founding Twin Swans to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<h2>PS5 Only \u2014 What Singapore Players Should Know<\/h2>\n<p>Hunter&#8217;s Moon is a PS5 exclusive with no PC, Switch 2, or Xbox version announced. Singapore sits in the Asia launch window: <strong>26 October 2026<\/strong>, one day after North America (25 October). Pricing on the Singapore PlayStation Store has not yet been confirmed. Wishlist it now on the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/concept\/10013468\/\">PlayStation Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/game-news\/\">GameTrader.SG Game News<\/a> for further updates as the October release date approaches.<\/p>\n<p><!--GT-SCOUT source=\"Web (English)\" theme=\"Video games\" flags=\"SGD pricing to be confirmed\"--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Swans&#8217; first-person folk horror PS5 exclusive Hunter&#8217;s Moon launches 26 October 2026 in Asia. Here&#8217;s what Singapore gamers need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[1481,418,71,64,73,1482],"class_list":["post-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-folk-horror","tag-horror-anime","tag-playstation","tag-ps5","tag-state-of-play","tag-twin-swans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/hunters-moon-title-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13AlF-2pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9278,"url":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/until-dawn-2-ps5-january-2027-launch-date\/","url_meta":{"origin":9273,"position":0},"title":"Until Dawn 2 Launches 28 January 2027 on PS5 \u2014 Dead True&#8217;s Pacific Horror Begins","date":"September 4, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Until Dawn 2 launches on PS5 on 28 January 2027. 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