ActionFit check
Is Project Silverfish worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Players who enjoy investigative FPS adventures with mysteries and environmental clues
- RPG players who want class choices, perk rolls, artifacts, and faction decisions
- Action-adventure fans who prefer hostile exploration with multiple ways to handle threats
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who want tightly scripted encounters or explicit guidance through every objective
- Players seeking a simple, straightforward shooter without investigation, deduction, or faction decisions
- Players who prefer bright, low-threat settings over horror, anomalies, monsters, and lost dungeons
Our take on Project Silverfish
The open-ended design gives up guided progression: solving missions and handling threats depends on interpreting clues, selecting equipment, and accepting responsibility for decisions.
What is Project Silverfish?
Project Silverfish is an action-adventure FPS set in a hostile exclusion zone containing cold-war-era dungeons, anomalies, creatures, factions, and hidden artifacts.
Players investigate mysteries by following leads, finding clues, completing contracts, and uncovering secrets about humanity’s origins and extinction. Combat combines firearms with tools, equipment, artifacts, and crafted exotic weapons. Six pre-made classes are available, or players can customize an Inheritor with varied perk rolls and game rules. The world supports different approaches to threats rather than scripted solutions. Artifacts can provide passive buffs, produce special effects when charged with Eather, or be incorporated into firearms. Factions compete for power in the Zone, with players choosing whether to work with or join them.
How Project Silverfish plays
- 01Class selection
- Players can choose from six distinct pre-made classes before entering the Zone.
- 02Investigation missions
- Contracts and missions involve pursuing leads, finding clues, and applying deductive reasoning.
- 03Artifact equipment
- Artifacts can grant passive buffs, trigger special effects after being charged with Eather, or become exotic firearms.
- 04Faction choices
- Competing groups offer different relationships, including opportunities to work with or join them.
- 05Open-ended encounters
- Players decide how to address threats using firearms, tools, equipment, and other available resources.
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Project Silverfish: platforms & release
Is Project Silverfish worth it?
It is worth it if: players who enjoy investigative FPS adventures with mysteries and environmental clues. Skip it if: players who want tightly scripted encounters or explicit guidance through every objective.
Where can I download Project Silverfish?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Project Silverfish's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Project Silverfish on?
Windows only.
