BrokenLore: FOLLOW Launches Today, a Psychological Horror Built With a Real Psychologist

BrokenLore: FOLLOW launches today on Steam. Serafini Productions, the studio behind UNFOLLOW, returns with a psychological first-person horror that takes the series back to where it started. Where most horror games chase jump scares, FOLLOW is built around a different kind of dread: the lived experience of bullying, body image, and self-loathing. It was developed in collaboration with a working psychologist.

That last detail is what makes this launch worth slowing down for.

What BrokenLore: FOLLOW Is

FOLLOW is the prequel to UNFOLLOW, Serafini’s earlier entry that turned the dark side of social media into a survival horror experience. This new chapter goes earlier in the timeline, into the origin story of UNFOLLOW’s protagonist, Anne. You explore her past, solve puzzles to reconstruct her memories, and outrun the creatures that her mind has wrapped around her trauma.

The setup leans hard on the metaphorical horror tradition. The monsters here are not random. They are embodiments of Anne’s anxieties, made flesh and dangerous. If you played UNFOLLOW or any of the BrokenLore series, you know the shape this takes. If you did not, FOLLOW is a clean entry point.

Built With a Psychologist

The most editorially interesting choice Serafini made is the one most studios skip. FOLLOW was developed in collaboration with psychologist Emanuela Papa, with the explicit goal of representing Anne’s experience accurately and sensitively. The themes are heavy: bullying, eating disorders, self-acceptance, worthlessness. The studio knew it could not just gesture at those things and call it horror. It brought in someone qualified to help draw the line between depicting and exploiting.

That collaboration shows up in the framing. Anne is never the punchline of her own pain. The horror is environmental and psychological. The takeaway is not that she is weak. The takeaway is that some of the worst monsters we carry are the ones we build for ourselves out of other people’s voices.

The Prequel Connection

Serafini has been building out the BrokenLore universe steadily. DON’T LIE, DON’T WATCH, and DON’T PLAY all sit in the same continuity, each one a different lens on the same anxieties. FOLLOW is the earliest point on the timeline and reframes events in UNFOLLOW for anyone who already played it.

The good news for newcomers: FOLLOW works alone. You do not need to have played UNFOLLOW to follow the story. The series operates more like an anthology with shared themes than a single chronological narrative.

Why This Launch Matters

The indie horror space in 2026 is crowded. Atmospheric pixel-art horror, PS1-style retro horror, found-footage horror. You can pick a flavor and find ten games. What is rarer is horror that takes mental health seriously enough to bring in a clinician. Plenty of indies have tried, with mixed results.

If you are tracking the genre, our roundup of the best indie horror games of 2025 covers the recent context. And for a deeper look at the design choices that make psychological horror actually work, rather than just scary, our piece on suspension of disbelief in indie design digs into the craft side.

How to Play It

BrokenLore: FOLLOW is out today on Steam, single-player, with partial controller support and Steam Achievements. Pricing was not yet visible at the time of writing because the store page had not unlocked, but Serafini’s previous entries have shipped in the indie-friendly range. A demo for the next series entry, BrokenLore: DON’T LIE, is also live on Steam if you want to sample the studio’s voice before committing.

If you make it through, leave Anne a kind review.