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2024 · Adventure · Indie

Vile: Exhumed

A game about misogynistic entitlement. Browse an old computer's files to uncover information about adult film actress Candy Corpse, and her recent departure from the industry.

Also known as: Vile: Director's Cut
Released: 4 October 2024
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Adventure Indie
Developers: —
Publishers: DreadXP
Modes: Single-player
Themes: Horror
Languages: English

About

Vile: Exhumed (stylized as VILE: Exhumed) is a 2025 point-and-click horror video game developed by Cara Cadaver and published by DreadXP. Though initially slated for a Steam release on 22 July 2025, the game was banned from the service, attracting accusations of censorship, and released by the developer as freeware on 6 August 2025. It depicts the player searching through an individual's computer and learning of his insane and parasocial obsession with a porn star.

Keywords

shareware
sexual violence

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Gameplay

Vile: Exhumed is a point-and-click game that simulates the user interface of a late 1990s personal computer operating system, a style that has been compared to that of Hypnospace Outlaw, Simulacra, and Her Story. The player explores the computer of Shawn Gerighs, a horror and pornography fan, by browsing websites he visited and viewing his files, emails, and chat logs.

Development

io in 2024. io under the name Final Girl Games, began working on the game as a personal project not intended for public release. Cadaver drew on personal experiences in developing Vile and described the development process as mentally exhausting but cathartic, calling the game "a page ripped right from my journal". After Vile was released to positive reception, becoming the subject of let's plays on YouTube and Twitch, Cadaver partnered with video game publisher DreadXP in early 2025 to develop a "director's cut" version of the game to be released on the video game distribution platform Steam.

A demo of this version, titled Vile: Exhumed, was previewed at PAX East in May 2025 to positive reception. In early July 2025 it was announced that the full game would release later that month on 22 July 2025.