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Unknown Tapes
You are the prey. Unknown Tapes is a horror video game that employs the found footage technique to narrate a story focused on survival in a modern setting overrun by dinosaurs. It aims for realism and draws inspiration from Dino Crisis and Outlast.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Unknown Tapes is an intruiging horror game. I like the premise of it utilizing found-footage style storytelling as the narrative that drives the game. There are a few things I'd like to comment about it. Pros: - The atmosphere can be unsetlling at times. - Some scenes in the…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“Unknown Tapes is a short but thrilling experience. A combination of found footage and dinosaur horror, the latter of which has become popular in the following years. There are really great set pieces with some dinosaurs and the darkness of the constant night creates some stellar…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I wanted to like this game but not at this price point. Game says I beat it in 2.5 hours and there's lots of scripted events around the dinosaurs that force you to play in a specific way, making it tough to justify replayability. Still had some good jump scares and didn't try to…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
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Latest official news
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Unknown Tapes Update!
Thanks to your feedback we have improved Unknown Tapes, among the improvements we find: Stuttering issues fixed Game disk space significantly reduced Minor bug fixes
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Horror · Dinosaurs · Exploration · Walking Simulator · First-Person · Psychological Horror · Controller · Narration · Story Rich · Realistic · Action · Military (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Korean * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 11 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: i5-4440 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 1060 3GB Storage: 12 GB available space Additional Notes: TBD