Dark Companion launches on Steam with 20% off, exploring an abandoned 1980s hospital

Skunx Games has launched psychological horror title Dark Companions: Wangsheng Institute on Steam with a 20% launch discount.

The game drops you into an abandoned children's mental health facility from the late 1980s. You'll navigate shifting spatial layouts while solving puzzles and dodging entities like Chompy Chasey and Binky Drinky—cutesy names masking genuinely unsettling designs. Your companion is Inky, an ink-sprayer device that offers some defense against the institute's inhabitants.

The developers highlight a "cognition-as-progression" system where certain puzzles withhold direct solutions, forcing players to reason through counter-intuitive logic. This approach rewards patience and lateral thinking but won't satisfy anyone expecting straightforward action.

This marks the series' debut entry, with Skunx Games planning future expansions. Founder Winston van Graafeiland established the Horror Skunx YouTube channel in 2020, indicating years of genre focus. The 20% discount makes this a reasonable entry point—competent psychological horror remains scarce enough to justify trying it at launch pricing.