Game provided by: JanduSoft
The game’s tagline “Not all visitors come in peace,” made me kind of scared to start it, as I am not a horror aficionado at all. I started it anyway, as this rating is not going to write itself. UFOPHILIA was developed by k148 Game Studio and ported to PlayStation 5 by JanduSoft. It was released on the 29th of January 2026 and is also available via Steam. UFOPHILIA is at its core a first-person psychological horror title where you take on the role of an investigator who is obsessed with the UFO phenomenon. You will be exploring locations full of anomalies and using specialised technology while facing the unknown. Your main goal will be to recognise the type of alien that is present and take photographs of it. Sounds pretty darn simple, am I right?
Well, in reality, this task will not be the easiest to accomplish. Depending on the alien type, you will experience scary phenomena, as some of the aliens are aggressive, while others are just curious about what is happening on the planet they visited. After getting to know all of the tools you have available and for what they are used, you will be ready to embark on your first mission as a ufologist. I recommend starting in the training area, where you will see a basic example of how alien detection and spawn zones work. After completing that, you will be able to proceed to the Jones family’s medium house, where strange events started happening a few weeks ago. Besides the medium house, you will also be able to UFO-hunt in apartments, modern apartments, camping, police station, school and large house. All of these missions are locked and can be unlocked by reaching a sufficient level and having enough Roswell Points. With Roswell Points, you will also be able to upgrade your tools and you will gather these points by taking photos of aliens, discovering a UFO object and completing mission objectives. All of the missions are spread through four phases – first, you will, of course, need to select the mission you want to encounter and the more missions you complete, the more missions you will be able to unlock. In the second phase, you will need to identify the alien type that is present by using the available tools in the area you are investigating. Some say you should not overuse the tools, but I am going to leave it up to you to discover that by yourself. In the third phase, you have to identify the alien spawn zone, which is a smaller area where it first appeared. Discovering the spawn zone is of the utmost importance for gathering the evidence required to fulfill the mission’s objectives. And last but not least, in phase four, the alien will finally become visible to the naked eye. It will be your task to snap photos of it, but beware of their behaviour – you will need to get close enough to them to take a successful photograph.
UFOPHILIA is an atmospheric horror game with its missions being totally unpredictable, as spawn zones and alien types vary. It is also very replayable because aliens spawn randomly, so every mission, be it short or long, will be different than the one you have played before. There are nine unique alien types, each with its own trademark behaviour, reactions and weaknesses. The tools that you will be using while hunting the aliens down range from EMF detectors and microwave meters to remote microphones and heart rate sensors. Oh, and I almost forgot – night vision cameras, of course! By using more tools together, you are able to achieve device synergies, as some of them will enhance the others – play around and use them strategically to achieve the best results on your missions. Game endings and ranks will be based on your performance, so try achieving the highest rank in each of the missions to earn the title of a Roswell Agent.
Even though I am not the biggest fan of horror games, I do love UFO conspiracies and stories, which made UFOPHILIA an intriguing game for me to play. There are not many alien games out there, so make sure you try this one if you are a UFO-lunatic like myself. The game is not perfect and may or may not be updated with additional patches in the future, but it does scratch the itch of encountering alien entities and escaping the act of being abducted. UFOPHILIA does have a lot of potential for becoming a truly amazing game, so I hope that the developers are aware of that and will not abandon it.
