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2025 · TeamKill Media · Action horror · Shooter

Code Violet

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Developed by TeamKill Media, Code Violet is a third-person action horror game, where you take on the role of Violet Sinclair, a girl plucked from the past who must unravel the mysteries of the Aion Bioengineering Complex as she avoids, hides or fights against the creatures who have overrun it.

Released: 14 November 2025
Platforms: PlayStation 5
Genres: Action horror Shooter Third-person shooter
Developers: TeamKill Media
Publishers: TeamKill Media
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Science fiction Horror
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB M
Languages: English
Time to beat: 5hmain story8hwith extras13hcompletionist

About

Code Violet is a 2026 action horror third-person shooter game created by TeamKill Media. Exclusive to PlayStation 5, it was officially released on January 10, 2026. The player controls a woman named Violet Sinclair, who is trapped in a research facility located on an exoplanet overrun by dinosaurs, which she has to fight to escape.

Upon release, the game received negative reception from both critics and players. Nevertheless, the game was featured on PlayStation Store's "Best Sellers" list of new games, taking first place, and became TeamKill Media's best-selling game.

›Story

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.

Keywords

survival horror

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

In the 25th century, a cataclysmic event called "The Cataclysm" turns Earth into a wasteland. Remaining humans lived on an exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e that circles around a dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, located 40 light years away from the Earth. Humans on the planet used a time machine to kidnap women and turn them into surrogates to save humanity. Violet, the main character, is one of the women.

After briefly waking up on the planet, she is forced to undergo decontamination and be taken to a research facility called "Aion Bioengineering Complex". Upon awakening again, she finds herself in surrogate facility and watches her friend get eaten by a dinosaur. Violet arms herself with a knife and a gun and attempts to escape the facility, killing the attacking dinosaurs.

Development

TeamKill Media, an American studio that previously created Quantum Error, announced the development of Code Violet on January 17, 2025, and released an announcement trailer on YouTube. The game was described as a third-person shooter horror game; its launch was scheduled for July 2025. Reportedly, the game was inspired by Dino Crisis, Dead Space and Resident Evil. TeamKill Media had chosen for the game to be released exclusively on PlayStation 5 and sold in PlayStation Store, with no PC version available.

The studio said that the reason for this decision was that they wanted to avoid modders creating "vulgar versions" of the game's main character and other characters. The studio also said that it does not want users "tarnishing the reputation" of the characters' voice actors. 3 million times. It sparked discussions among users about the decision and criticism of the game and the studio.

Reception

Code Violet received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received weak approval, being recommended by 17% of critics.

The release of Code Violet was not well received; it received negative reviews from both critics and players. Jarrett Green of IGN described Code Violet as a "bad game," stating that its characters are "flat" and "empty", including Violet, whom he described as an "empty shell". He rated the game 4 out 10. Rafa Del Río of IGN Spain also rated the game 4 out 10.