The next video game to join the list of those coming to the silver screen is Glowstick Entertainment’s Dark Deception.
If you’ve never heard of it, it’s described on Steam as a “story-driven first-person horror maze” inspired by classic arcade games. The 2018 PC and mobile title came out in 2018 and tasks players with getting out of a maze filled with big-headed monsters that’d probably be right at home in Five Nights at Freddy’s. (Probably why it got picked up; the 2023 Freddy’s film was a hit for Blumhouse and its sequel is due in December.)
Per Deadline, indie company So It Goes is behind the adaptation, which’ll be penned by writers Adrian Speckert and Cory Todd Hughes, executive producers of the slasher-horror film Wolf Creek: Legacy. In fact, Hughes and Speckert said they’re having such a ball working on Wolf Creek that they hope to bring that same energy to Dark Deception.
“Our production company has a rich love of horror and the horror genre,” they said in a statement to the trade. “[Deception] is an incredible, endless list of amazing characters and lore, and we can’t wait to extrapolate from all of that and bring a terrifyingly fun and faithful adaptation to the screen.”
According to So It Goes, Dark Deception has a pretty big install base of 58 million players and 6.5 million units sold—the base game is free, DLC chapters have to be bought, and its fifth chapter is due sometime in 2025. It won’t be in theaters for a while, but it’s the latest indie horror game to get adapted: sometime in the near future, we’re meant to get a movie based on the 2022 horror game Iron Lung, which is directed, written, produced by, and starring YouTuber Mark Fischbach, aka Markiplier.