Steam's Apart looks like the Banjo-Kazooie game from your nightmares

Another creepy caper is crawling out of the depths of Steam, with TurnKey Games' Apart getting under our skin and staying there. Horror games have never really gone away, but for those who are sick of the sometimes generic asymmetrical horror reskin or numerous Backrooms-inspired releases that have plagued 2026, rest assured that more traditional titles are still all the rage.

Resident Evil Requiem's record-breaking success proves there's still an appetite for single-player horror, with Apart looking like an indie darling somewhat bizarrely inspired by Banjo-Kazooie.

A 'Rare' find

With Steam horrors being a dime a dozen, it's tough for the genuinely interesting ones to poke through. When TurnKey shared a motion poster for Apart on X, players immediately noticed the Banjo-Kazooie aesthetic.

Over on Apart's Steam page, we're told how you play as a zombie child in the aftermath of society's fall. Here, a technological breakthrough repurposes biological remains into an eco-centric fuel in a game that "balances horror with dark humour to tell a story of a fading parental presence and corporate malfeasance."

This little undead hero is effectively the Banjo character here, while her Kazooie-esque sidekick is a severed arm that's also giving The Addams Family vibes.

Each character is controllable and has their own unique set of abilities as you have to solve puzzles and traverse this wasteland.

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The child's limbs can be lost and reassembled on the fly for modification, and if everything gets too much, she can (literally) fall to pieces and reassemble where it's safer.

As for her trusty severed arm, it's more agile and can get to those hard-to-reach areas, slip past enemies, or puppet undead hosts to turn enemies into allies.

Cheering the game's theming, one fan shared a GIF of Banjo and Kazooie, as another added: "This hahaha. It's Banjo and Kazooie's fever dream."

Someone else wrote: "Is this Gen Z’s Banjo-Kazooie??? I'm up for it!"

A third chuckled: “This Banjo-Kazooie is weird…”

Others spotted similarities to Little Nightmares and the underrated Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse, but it's not hard to see the Banjo-Kazooie influences here.

While Rare is now over at Microsoft and there's sadly no sign of the mythical Banjo-Kazooie remake, we're stuck with the likes of Yooka-Laylee and Apart. For those wanting to scratch that horror itch, the latter could be one for you.

Does Apart have a release date?

Coming to Windows, MacOS, and handhelds, you can wishlist Apart right now. There's no full release date, although TurnKey Games is still targeting a fall 2026 window for its debut title. Even though successful indies often leap to console after an initial run of success, there's also no word on whether TurnKey is planning for this inevitability.

Still, with everything from Outlast to Signalis leaping from PC to console, this premise is clearly enough to catch the attention of horror gamers who want a different kind of putrid puzzler.