Hariti Officially Out on Steam

Ghostcase released Hariti on Steam on 11 August 2026 — a first-person psychological horror game built around Chinese folklore and set inside an abandoned hospital. The premise is straightforward; the cultural specificity is what sets it apart from the crowded first-person horror field.

A mother searching a hospital that should be empty

You play a mother looking for her missing daughter, exploring a crisis-ridden hospital that Ghostcase describes as a Chinese-style medical facility. The building itself is the antagonist as much as anything inside it, and the studio’s framing is that the walls hide their own stories.

The store page also indicates you will need to take up an appropriate “weapon” — placed in quotation marks on the listing itself, which suggests the tool in question is not conventional and is tied to the folklore the game draws from.

Folklore as the source of the horror

Ghostcase is specific about where the monsters come from: grotesque creatures born from ancient folklore, rather than the generic figures common to the genre. The studio describes the overall effect as a blend of cultural dread and psychological tension.

That distinction matters. Horror rooted in a specific tradition tends to work on different assumptions than Western haunted-hospital design — the rules of what is dangerous and why are drawn from a different source, which can leave players who know the genre well genuinely unmoored.

The plot is described as convoluted by design, built so that nothing is quite as it first appears.

Platform, language and technical details

Hariti is a single-player, Windows-only release with Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud saves and Family Sharing enabled. There is no controller support listed, so plan on keyboard and mouse.

Localisation is broad: twelve languages including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and both Brazilian and European Portuguese. Steam genre tags are Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG and Simulation — an unusually wide spread for a horror title, and a reminder that Steam genre tags are developer-assigned rather than curated.

What the listing leaves unanswered

Worth setting expectations honestly: Ghostcase has published very little concrete detail about how Hariti actually plays. The store page covers setting, tone and creature design, but does not state a campaign length, describe the moment-to-moment mechanics, or clarify whether the “weapon” is used in combat or as an investigative tool.

That is not unusual for a horror release trading on atmosphere — studios in this genre routinely withhold mechanical detail because knowing the rules reduces the fear. But it does mean anyone buying at launch is buying largely on premise and presentation rather than on a specified feature set.

Pricing, and a correction

Hariti is on Steam at $6.99 verified against the store listing on 13 August 2026.

One correction worth making, since it circulated widely: Hariti is not an upcoming release. It launched on 11 August and is available now. Some coverage in the past few days still described it as a Coming Soon title, which was already out of date when published.

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