Mortanis Prisoners Review
Mortanis Prisoners squanders a serious premise on generic survival horror.
Mortanis Prisoners. Credit: Honor Games / Axyos Games
Mortanis Prisoners is a first-person survival horror game from Honor Games, published by Axyos Games. It arrived on PC via Steam in July 2025 and came to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S last month. The setup was shocking when I heard it. A survival horror game that takes place in a WWII concentration camp? How would a game like this handle that material? You probably won’t be surprised to hear that the answer is “poorly.”
You play as a clerk in a Third Reich concentration camp who is outed as a resistance fighter, captured, and sent to the camp as a prisoner for medical experiments. She wakes up in a camp morgue and is told by Death that she’s in Purgatory and must escape. It’s a weighty premise, and the game doesn’t do it justice in any meaningful way.
The concentration camp setting functions almost entirely as window dressing. Most of the actual gameplay takes place in spaces that look like generic survival horror environments. The historical context becomes insignificant as there isn't enough character work, worldbuilding, or thematic consideration to support it. Using one of history's greatest atrocities as a horror backdrop is a serious creative decision, and the game doesn’t engage with it meaningfully or show any real understanding of that weight.
Mortanis Prisoners. Credit: Honor Games / Axyos Games
The gameplay is essentially a clunky, poorly executed first-person Resident Evil clone. You pick up notes with backstory, manage an inventory, solve simple environmental puzzles, and shoot creatures. Tension, a quality necessary for the genre, just isn’t there. The whole thing runs around just two hours, which is a mercy.
The visuals are low quality across the board. Animations are stiff, art direction is generic and unpolished, and the UI is even uglier than classic survival horror games in a way that indicates low effort rather than homage. None of this justifies a $19.99 price tag on console.
The game runs, so at least it’s got that going for it. Skip it.
Mortanis Prisoners
An undercooked survival horror with questionable use of its theme.
