Project Phoenix, the 2024 Steam horror game

What the store page says it is

You play a stalker searching a derelict Soviet bunker for artifacts and records. Notes, diaries, and files point at a laboratory program called Project Phoenix. The store description walks through a library with a password, a church with ritual traces, a lab where an experiment went wrong, and tunnels with the ghosts of soldiers.

Play is first person and linear: find keys, open locked doors, solve puzzles, look for a way forward, and pick up flashlight batteries. Tags on Steam include Action, Adventure, Indie, and Simulation. Languages listed are English and Russian, with full English audio.

Requirements and what players report

Minimum, as printed on Steam: Intel i5-3570K, 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 670 or GTX 1050 or Radeon HD 7870, 3 GB disk, Windows 10 64-bit. Recommended: i7-8700K or Ryzen 5 3600X, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080 Ti or RX 5700 XT, same 3 GB disk.

Top reviews mention frame rates around 8–20 FPS, crashes, an opening where turning the lights on gives no next step, an elevator shaft that blocks progress, and keys that do not prompt an unlock. Those are player reports, not a patch list from STuNT. The walkthrough page collects them next to the videos.

Not the other two games

The JRPG is a 2013 squad strategy game that has not shipped. 涅槃计划 is a top-down survival sandbox with a free demo from November 2026. If a search for “project phoenix steam” landed here, you are on the US$0.99 bunker game. The buy link is on the download page, and it goes to Steam.

Length, reviews, and what is missing

I will not publish a single “it takes 40 minutes” line. The four complete videos I indexed run 26 minutes 20 seconds, 37 minutes 41 seconds, 47 minutes 8 seconds, and 47 minutes 43 seconds. Steam reviews mention playtimes from 0.3 hours to 2.6 hours. A speedrun and a careful search are different activities, so both bands stay.

There is no Metacritic page in the sources I used, and no professional review I could pair with the store’s Mixed label. The 41 reviews and 58 percent figure is the store’s own summary on 12 November 2026. Achievements are absent: the stats page says no stats are available. Endings are also absent from every public write-up, which is why the walkthrough page refuses to number them.

Performance complaints in those reviews — frame rates in the single digits to the low twenties, crashes, a lights-on opening with no prompt, an elevator shaft, a key with no unlock hint — are player reports. STuNT has not posted a matching bug list on the store page I read.

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