About the Game
In an alternate history 1950s Soviet Kyiv, most of the city's population has mysteriously vanished, and uncontrollable, horrific monsters roam its abandoned streets.
Fate has brought you face to face with the ominous emptiness of a dead city that watches its only visitor with unwavering attention. Face bizarre enemies born from propaganda, science, and madness as you uncover the truth behind the catastrophe, and try to make things right.
Features
Explore surreal locations across an alternate history Soviet Union, including collective farms, the Metro, an opera house, city rooftops, secret laboratories, and more.
Use an arsenal of classic weapons, including the C96 Broomhandle pistol, PPSh submachine gun, Mosin rifle, double barrel shotgun, Molotov cocktails, and experimental retrofuturistic weaponry.
Distinctive, grotesque enemies inspired by Soviet themes.
Experience one of Eastern Europe's most unusual cult FPS titles, faithfully revitalized for modern systems.
Screenshots
25 images
Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
A small update has been pushed through to fix the crashing issue that a number of players were running into. Thank you to those who took the time to supply us with their Crash Dumps. It helped a ton!
Please update your game and get back to being empty!
City Council out
Hello Hello! First off, let us thank you for your patience and the help a great deal of you have given us.
When issues pop up, we know it can be frustrating. Every issue reported, every posting of your specs, etc etc is a great help to us.
With that being said, we've been working hard to hit the biggest reported issues. We're very pleased to say we have pushed out an update that fixes a good deal of issues, including two of the most reported!
Please find below a list of fixes this new update includes!
Fixed distorted textures on some AMD Radeon GPUs
Add current value to the "Field of View" slider.
Fixed antivirus false detection when game tries to save.
Performance improvements in the world rendering for all GPUs.
Fixed the "Can't initialize screen resolution" error on some multi monitor displays.
Fixed notes not displaying while the HUD is hidden.
Fixed Anisotropic Filtering not turning off for all game elements when turned off in the settings.
Potential solution for some controllers not being detected with Steam Input disabled. - feedback welcome
We will continue to keep an eye on future reports and feedback!
City council out.
Thank you for your patience!
We've pushed a small update to You Are Empty: Absolute Edition to address reports of game saves not saving.
Please ensure you update to the build with the ID 26250221.
We are tracking other reported issues and aim to fix them ASAP.
What we would ask is for those reporting issues to include as much detail as possible. Screenshots, videos, error messages, which antivirus you are running, etc etc
The more we know, the quicker we can push fixes out!
City council out.
Current Release
Build 26299224
Uploaded Oct 31, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
you_are_empty.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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