THE BROTHERHOOD, an independent game development studio based in Cape Town, South Africa, and known for the games STASIS and Beautiful Desolation, has recently announced a new game called Animal Use Protocol.
Unlike their previous titles, which were point-and-click isometric adventure games, Animal Use Protocol is a full-fledged 3D first-person horror game made in Unreal Engine 5. The trailer already shows excellent visuals and the preliminary PC system requirements are suitably high.
Minimum:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon RX 580
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
VR Support: N/A
Additional Notes: To Achieve a solid 30FPS at default Settings.
Recommended:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7-12700K or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
Memory: 30 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 4070 or AMD RX 7900 XT
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
VR Support: N/A
As you might have guessed already from the game’s title, Animal Usage Control is heavily themed around animals. You’ll play as a highly intelligent chimpanzee called Penn who is attempting an escape from a laboratory where animals are being experimented on. Armed only with your wits, a gravity manipulator, and a scrappy rat sidekick called Trip, you’ll stealthily navigate the dystopian Anchorage Station while being relentlessly pursued by all sorts of monstrous experiments gone wrong.
The developers also promised highly immersive environments, exploration-driven gameplay with interactive objects and environmental storytelling, intense and unscripted encounters with a terrifying enemy, limited resources and inventory management for high-stakes decision-making, and voiced dialogue and audio logs for deep narrative immersion. Development on Animal Use Control started in December 2023 and is scheduled to launch on PC in the latter half of 2026, while a console launch will come later.
