First zombies, then battle royale. Now this looks like gaming’s next big trend—and a promising upcoming FPS has sealed the deal

As 2025 winds down and we look towards the future of gaming, a newly announced FPS caught my attention in a big way after its reveal earlier this week.

It’s called Supreme Experiment, and it has some pretty familiar tropes. Humanity escaped Earth, evil robots took over, et cetera. But the trailer and screenshots shown thus far really have me itching to find out and see more, because I think it looks like something quite different than the way this sort of game has been presented before.

“It has been a century since humanity retreated into the Spire Cities—towers stretching eight kilometers into the sky, high above the toxic clouds,” the description reads. “Down on the surface, fleets of intelligent machines were left to maintain the world and supply the towers with everything we needed. Since then, everything ran on its own. No one remembers how it works anymore. The city above the clouds is the only world we know.”

Sounds lovely! A city in the sky? What could go wrong? Man, I love BioShock Infinite. AI and robots evolving to the point of destruction? It’s been done before, and it’s been done recently (hello, ARC Raiders and Horizon Zero Dawn, etc.), and as you may expect, things do not go according to plan in this world, and it all starts to get quite weird down on Earth. But after a closer look, the feel and vibe present me with something that perks me up.

“But one day, the flow of resources simply… stopped,” it continues. “The machines fell silent. No signal. No explanation. Hunger and cold are creeping up the towers. Someone has to go down there and find out what happened. No one alive has ever done it before. You are the volunteer. But the world waiting below is not what we imagined. Not even close.”

That world below is where I’m drawn, because the art style of what has become of the robots is very unique and unsettling. As it shows in the reveal trailer and some of the images released thus far, the robots have taken on the form of living things like animals and, more disturbingly, humans.

The trailer is atmospheric and unnerving. If the gameplay can match it, then this game may be something to keep an eye on. On Steam, the game is tagged as an “Immersive Sim” FPS, Action-Adventure, and Atmospheric. And yeah, I can see that.

It’s tough to get too excited about Supreme Experiment without seeing any gameplay at all just yet, but man, I’m really loving the look of it thus far. It’s currently got no release window scheduled, so for now, let’s all keep an eye on this one as we head into 2026 and beyond, because I think it’s got the makings of something special.

For now, let’s just hope the concept of this game remains as art and doesn’t translate too heavily into what we have going on in our real world today.