Developer PHL Collective and DreadXP adapt the 1982 Romero King horror comedy film and its 2019 Shudder revival into a point and click adventure where players choose their way through branching horror stories.
The Creepshow franchise has spent more than forty years as something to watch. This August, it becomes something to play.
A point-and-click adventure game based on the horror anthology, developed by PHL Collective and published by DreadXP, is dated for an August 2026 release on Steam, according to a Steam listing that went live in June. The premise follows a teenager named Danny and his friends at a mall, who get pulled into a missing-father mystery that leads to a fortune-teller called The Reader. She, in the words of the developers quoted by Engadget, "spins treacherous tales" that frame the game's branching horror stories.
That framing device is the design's load-bearing structure, and it is what makes the project worth taking seriously rather than dismissing as licensed-product filler. Creepshow began as a 1982 horror-comedy film written by Stephen King and directed by George Romero, two of the form's most recognizable names. It returned in 2019 as an anthology series on Shudder, the streaming home for horror programming. Each episode has always been a series of short, discrete stories bound together by a host segment: a comic book for the film, the grinning skeletal mascot for the show.
A filmed Creepshow can cut between stories, but it cannot let the audience choose. The game can. PHL Collective describes the experience as a point-and-click adventure "gone all kinds of wrong," with horror mini-games and endings the player will not see coming. The Reader, sitting in her room and dealing out fortunes, is the connective tissue that lets the game preserve the anthology's structure while making the act of choosing a tale part of the experience. The fortune-teller's tales branch. Which one the player draws shapes what happens next.
Whether the game can deliver on that promise is a separate question, and one the available material does not answer. DreadXP's claim to a horror audience comes largely from The Mortuary Assistant, a 2022 indie horror sim about a mortician's apprentice working a graveyard shift, which became a quiet hit on Steam and established the publisher as a serious bet on interactive horror. Adapting a known IP is a step up in scale and visibility. PHL Collective, the developer, has not yet been the lead on a release with this kind of name recognition, and the studio has not published hands-on previews or developer interviews in the available material.
What is confirmed is narrow. The game ships to Steam in August 2026, with no console versions announced. Price, editions, and pre-order details have not been released. The tone the developers are selling blends horror with dark humor and pulp-inspired visuals, with comic-book environments meant to evoke the 1982 film's look. A point-and-click adventure game is built around clicking through objects and dialogue choices, with mini-games that interrupt the pacing when the story demands it.
The watch item is the gap between the framing device on paper and the framing device in play. The Reader, the fortune-teller, is the move that lets a Creepshow game do something a Creepshow episode cannot. The August release will show whether DreadXP and PHL Collective built a game that uses her, or just a wrapper around five short horror scenes.