Today independent studio Teamkill Media revealed the first look at its newest game, titled Code Violet.
Initially teased as “Project V,” Code Violet is a third-person action horror game that the developers describe as a “spiritual successor” to Capcom‘s classic by Shinji Mikami Dino Crisis.
It’ll come to PS5 in July 2025 and it’ll place the player in the boots of Violet Sinclair, a girl from the past who finds herself trapped in the Aion Bioengineering Complex, a facility that has been overrun by dinosaurs.
The evacuation protocol is in effect, so Violet is tasked with trying to escape the complex while also saving people, while avoiding or fighting the creatures that have invaded the complex. Unfortunately, the mysterious director of the facility also seems bent on stopping her.
The game is made in Unreal Engine 5, and the trailer focuses on cinematics, showing off a few of the characters that we’ll meet during Violet’s escape.
You can watch the trailer below.
Incidentally, the backdrop of the game is definitely quite dystopian, as you can read from the official description.
“In the 25th Century it is said that mankind narrowly survived a cataclysm that left Earth uninhabitable and in ruins. What was left of the human race looked to the stars for a new world: Trappist 1-E, where they would rebuild and start again.
However, those who had survived the cataclysm, were sterile and could not produce children and without a solution mankind would soon go extinct.
Earth’s last survivors, a colony known as Aion, decide they will use their technology to jump to different periods in time, extract women and bring them back to their base on Trappist 1-E to be surrogates and prevent mankind’s extinction.
However, what seems like good intentions, hides dark truths and when Violet Sinclair is plucked from her time and relocated to Trappist 1-E, she finds herself in a conflict of conspiracy and survival as the true intentions of Aion reveal themselves.”
If you’re unfamiliar with the name Teamkill Media, the small indie team has made headlines with its cosmic horror game Quantum Error, which released for PS5 in 2023. After that, the team launched Son and Bone in 2024, also starring plenty of dinosaurs.
It’ll be interesting to see whether Code Violet will live up to the bold claim identifying it as a spiritual successor to Dino Crisis. That’s certainly a big pair of shoes to fill.
