Feed the Pit is a creepy cultist extraction game where you hunt the ultra-wealthy for a hungry void

Feed the Pit is a narrative horror extraction game from Curious Fox Sox where you play a masked cultist hunting down obscenely wealthy targets and hurling them into a ravenous supernatural pit. After spending an hour with the game's first act, it draws comparisons to Mouthwashing in its unsettling atmosphere and slow-burn character work.

You play as the Seeker, a new recruit tasked with venturing into forested wilderness to track down and kill high-net-worth fugitives, then drag them back to the cult's church. The Pit itself lives in a scarlet cavern that looks like a giant intestine, communicates via a big blue telephone, and its opening words are genuinely surprising. The cult around it is a found family of lipless, canine-grinning weirdos who gradually win you over — one owns a Nintendo DS knockoff, another is into rock music but won't hold it against you if you hate it. They all gather under a portrait of a messianic bald man who looks uncomfortably like Jeff Bezos.

The hunting mechanic turns each kill into a summoning ritual. You navigate a forested hillside using a paper grid map and a torch, narrowing down your target's location by collecting and burning Tarot-style cards — fish, pyramids, medicine pills, occult pop imagery — handed to you by a headless, smoke-collared figure who teleports around the map. Each card covers a section of the grid; burn it and you learn whether your quarry is hiding there. As you burn cards, day bleeds into night. Once you've pinpointed the right square, you follow footprints and a rising heartbeat until you close in for the kill — before the target gets to you first. The woods aren't safe either: low-poly, artfully glitchy monsters straight out of Lethal Company's nightmare catalogue roam the trees, each with its own hiding behavior, all of them harder to spot once darkness falls.

Feed the Pit is still in early access with only the first act available, but the foundation is strong enough to suggest something genuinely strange and worthwhile is being built here. Players who find the card-hunting loop fiddly may bounce off it, but the horror atmosphere and the cult's oddball warmth make it worth pushing through.