THQ Nordic and Pieces Interactive held a nightly preview of the reboot Alone in the Darkannouncing that the game will be released the 25th of October this year. The horror game will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC for $60.
The developers reported that Hollywood stars became the main characters of the game David Harbor (“Stranger Things”) and Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve“). Harbor played private investigator Edward Carnby, while Comer played Emily Hartwood’s niece. By choosing one or the other, players will be able to play the same story from two different points of view.
Also today on all announced platforms, including consoles and Steamcame out free prologue entitled Grace in the Dark. It’s available for download now and takes place a few weeks before the main story begins, telling the story from the perspective of 11-year-old Grace Saunders.
In the story, Grace is in the Derceto Asylum and one day agrees to help one of the patients, Jeremy Hartwood, send a letter for his niece that will bring her here. Thus, players will enter the estate, where they will have a short but nightmarish journey through the corridors, which have become the habitat of some evil entity.
The prologue, like the upcoming full game, supports the official Russian translation of the interface and subtitles. The system requirements are as follows:
Full demo walkthrough:
The new Alone in the Dark is positioned by the creators as a rethinking of the original game, released more than 30 years ago.
The story will be devoted to how in the 1920s, somewhere far in the south of the United States, the uncle of the heroine Emily Hartwood, who was in the Derceto asylum for the mentally ill, goes missing. Together with private detective Edward Carnby, she goes there, becoming a witness to strange events with him. The protagonists will have to face the mysterious inhabitants of the estate, see waking nightmares, fight monsters and try to uncover a conspiracy of evil, being at the intersection of reality, mystery and madness, which will call into question everything they know about themselves. Mikael Hedberg, screenwriter for SOMA and Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is responsible for the story.
Cast announcement trailer, behind-the-scenes footage and new gameplay. In the player settings, you can enable official Russian subtitles.
Pre-orders are now open on consoles and include a skin pack that replaces character models with low-poly versions from the original 1992 Alone in the Dark.
A $70 deluxe edition is also available, containing vintage horror filters and a director’s commentary mode.
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