Transit's Debut Trailer Turns a Sock Puppet Into a Nightmare

Score one for the scrappy indie crowd, because a sock puppet just did more unsettling work than most big-budget horror games manage with a full effects budget. Transit debuted a new trailer at the Insider Gaming Showcase, and the pitch is simple on paper and deeply unnerving in practice: a talking sock puppet, reportedly a first for the horror genre, according to Insider Gaming.

I will give credit where it is due, because that is how this works. Making a puppet scary without leaning on jump-scare budgets takes actual craft, and whoever pitched this idea in a meeting deserves a round of applause and a raise. The trailer's title, "28 Games Later," leans hard into horror movie shorthand while the game's own name, Transit, hints at a setting built around public transportation, the kind of claustrophobic, nowhere-to-run space that horror designers love and riders everywhere already find a little unsettling without any puppets involved.

Details beyond the showcase reveal stay thin for now. No platform list, no release window, no pricing has surfaced yet, and nothing here has been confirmed beyond what Insider Gaming's own showcase put on screen. What is clear is that the indie horror scene keeps finding cheap, effective ways to get under your skin while plenty of bigger productions reach for the same old jump-scare playbook. That is a point for the little guy, and I am not mad about it.

Watch for more details as Transit's developers share them, because a game that can make a sock puppet feel like a threat has earned the follow-up attention.