VILE: Exhumed Has Just Launched Independently as a Free Shareware Title

VILE: Exhumed is a horror game from developer Cara Cadaver that was meant to launch on July 22nd, 2025 before being banned on Steam for “sexual content with depictions of real people.” 

According to the Vile is Banned website, where players can currently download the game for free, VILE covers topics of assault, abuse and entitlement. There are intense visuals but, “there is no uncensored nudity, no depictions of sex acts and no pornography whatsoever.” The game is available under a CC BY-NC-ND license which has allowed the developer to make her game available to as many people as possible.

While the game is free, there are ways that players can financially support the game. DreadXP will be donating all of their profits, and Cara will be donating a portion of hers, totaling in 50% of all profits from the game being donated to Red Door Family Shelter, a Toronto-based charity that works to help families, refugees and women escaping violence. A physical version of the game is also planned for the future. 

“You are why I create things. The one thing that hasn’t changed during all of the bullshit is my one piece of advice. Please, now more than ever, make the weird thing. Throw up your yarn and create with it. Thank you.” - Cara Cadaver

Head over to the Vile is Banned website to support the developer and donate to an incredible cause.