Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game

Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025.

Surgent continues conversations with potential partners around Project Uso (revealed in October 2024) and other projects set in the Tales of Kenzera universe. But this game is something new for the studio, which was started by House of the Dragon actor Abubakar Salim.  

This exciting new game, developed by Surgent Studios, will not be set in the Tales of Kenzera universe, the companies said.

Abubakar Salim, CEO of Surgent Studios, said in a statement, “Both Surgent and Pocketpair are well-versed in taking risks. We noticed a pattern in the entertainment industry, and Pocketpair has given us the opportunity to make a horror game about it. It will be short and weird, and we think players will be interested ...