Game: CONCRETE BURIAL
Developer: Games From The Abyss (Brazil)
Publisher: DreadXP
Genre: First-Person Horror
Release Date: September 17, 2026
Platform: PC (Steam)
Length: Short / bite-sized
Series: XP ULTRA — third entry
🩸 CONCRETE BURIAL arrives September 17 from Games From The Abyss and DreadXP. A knight of the Crimson Clan descends into a brutalist catacomb to collect four artifacts of desire, confront god, and be granted an irrefutable wish — armed with a single weapon that runs on their own blood.
🩸 One Weapon, and It Costs You to Fire It
This is the mechanic the whole game hangs on: your only weapon consumes your own blood.
It’s a neat piece of design because it collapses two separate systems into one. In most horror games ammunition and health are distinct resources you manage against each other — here they’re the same resource, so every shot you take makes you easier to kill. Fighting back becomes a form of self-harm, and the decision to engage is never free.
Four artifacts. One wish. Everything below is watching.
Beware the eyes of the whispering crypt.
CONCRETE BURIAL sends a knight of the Crimson Clan into an ancient labyrinthine crypt, following a legend: collect the four artifacts of desire and an irrefutable wish will be granted. What waits down there includes an ancient entity that is, per the developers, always watching.
It’s a deliberately short, bite-sized first-person horror game from Brazilian studio Games From The Abyss, published by DreadXP, and it lands on September 17.
Four Trials, One Expanding Maze
🗝️ Four Artifacts
The artifacts of desire are the goal, each locked behind its own unique trial rather than a repeated challenge.
🌀 An Expanding Labyrinth
The crypt is described as ever-expanding — the deeper you get, the more of it there apparently is.
👁️ Something Watching
A mysterious ancient entity observes throughout, glimpsed in the announcement trailer.
⛪ Confront God
The endpoint of the legend, and presumably the price attached to an irrefutable wish.
Four unique trials rather than four variations is worth noting for a short game. It suggests the runtime is being spent on distinct ideas rather than escalating difficulty on a single one — which is generally how bite-sized horror justifies its length.
🏗️ Brutalism, Underground
The setting is specifically a brutalist catacomb — concrete rather than the usual stone and cobweb. It’s an unusual register for crypt horror, and one that trades gothic decoration for something heavier and considerably more oppressive.
The title is doing double duty there too: buried in concrete is a rather different proposition to buried in earth.
This Is the Third XP ULTRA Game
⭐ DreadXP’s Experimental Line, Now Three Deep
CONCRETE BURIAL is the third entry in XP ULTRA — DreadXP’s collection of smaller, experimental horror titles. That’s a detail most coverage will skip, and it changes how you read the release.
A publisher running a named line for short, strange, low-commitment horror is genuinely useful — it gives experimental work somewhere to live that isn’t a full commercial release.
XP Ultra — I
FLATHEAD
From Tim Oxton.
XP Ultra — II
VILE: Exhumed
From Final Girl Games. Recently received a limited physical edition.
XP Ultra — III
CONCRETE BURIAL
From Games From The Abyss. September 17.
It’s a sensible structure. Short experimental horror is a hard sell as a standalone product, but as a numbered entry in an ongoing line it comes with built-in context — and players who liked the last one know exactly what they’re getting into.
👁️ Horror
🔫 First-Person
🕯️ Occult
🧭 Labyrinth
⏱️ Short-Form
🎯 Single-Player
Who’s Making It
🇧🇷 Games From The Abyss
A small Brazilian studio with a stated willingness to make weird games — a claim their back catalogue supports. Previous titles include THE LACERATOR and Death Elevator.
💀 DreadXP
One of the more prolific independent horror publishers working, with a catalogue including The Mortuary Assistant, My Friendly Neighborhood, Dread Delusion, White Knuckle, Heartworm and the Dread X Collections. Upcoming: The Secret of Weepstone and the 1.0 launch of PIGFACE.
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