At today’s THQ Nordic 2022 Digital Showcase, developer Pieces Interactive announced an Alone in the Dark reboot, due to release on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. There’s no release date yet, but in a behind-closed-doors preview event, we were told the game is currently in ‘pre-alpha’ – so don’t expect it anytime soon (though it has been in development since ‘late 2019’).
THQ Nordic’s executive producer Michael Paeck says that recent games (like the Resident Evil remakes, Silent Hill titles, and Dead Space) go for ‘terror’ more than ‘horror’, and the team wants this new title to go back to what made the original 1992 Alone in the Dark special. The team constantly referred to the dense, rich atmosphere of the first game, and how much it wants to recreate that in this new game – some 30 years after the original launched.
From a debut trailer we’ve seen so far, the game seems similar to the Resident Evil remakes Capcom has seen so much success with. It’s a complete rethink of the first game, with the SOMA and Amnesia: Dark Descent writer, Mikael Hedberg, coming in to head up the narrative on the the project.
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