Roguelite clone-stabber (and upsettingly effective paranoia generator) It Has My Face is skulking out of early access this month, a Steam news update confirming its 1.0 release for April 3rd 2026. Hooray, and also, arrrrrrgh. I’ve been following IHMF since its impressive first demo under the name DoubleWe, and its short, highly-strung bursts of deduction and one-hit-kill violence are as cleverly staged as they are stressful.

If you’re unfamiliar, a round plays out thusly: you’re given a randomised appearance and a mirror, dumped in a chokingly dystopian shitpit full of similarly block-faced NPCs, and must hunt down and kill your own silent doppelganger before they do the same to you. This seems easy enough, on the first few stages. Find a gun, spam mirror-checks to confirm what the skinwalker looks like, and blast them from range while they’re still trying to blend with the crowd. Very quickly, though, survival becomes a (sometimes literal) knife fight, with clones taking advantage of blind corners and cramped thoroughfares to launch ambush tactics and – as the story progresses – unleash an escalating barrage of supernatural powers.

It’s not blood-and-gore, jump scare-scary, but It Has My Face has a way of raising the tension and refusing to pop it – at least until your clone is either dead on the floor or sticking a knife in your gut, emotionless even as it plots to steal your bank cards and Spotify login. I haven’t tried the 1v1 multiplayer mode yet, though I can imagine this fear of a blade suddenly bursting from a crowd is only amplified by granting the clone genuine human intelligence.

Multiplayer happens to be a big beneficiary of the 1.0 update, which includes Team Deathmatch and Free For All modes for up to 8 players. Story mode also concludes and expands with two new singleplayer chapters, more clone abilities, and mutator variables. There’s also a new final boss fight, which doesn’t sound very It Has My Face-ish, though my curiosity is piqued regardless. It’d be funny if the game secretly commandeered your webcam to make both your character and said boss share your actual, real-life face. Mega illegal. But funny.

April 3rd it is, then, and there’s still a Steam demo you can try first.