Alone within the Darkish reboot arrives October with David Harbour and Jodie Comer

THQ Nordic has revealed extra on the upcoming Alone within the Darkish reboot, together with a launch date and the actual fact they’ve bagged Hollywood stars David Harbour and Jodie Comer to star as the sport’s lead roles.

A packed Alone within the Darkish Highlight broadcast revealed that Harbour – from Stranger Issues and the upcoming Gran Turismo film – will likely be taking part in sequence mainstay, Edward Carnaby, whereas Comer of Free Man and Killing Eve fame is taking part in the sport’s second playable character Emily Hartwood. Each actors are offering not solely their voices, however they’ve been given the complete facial mocap therapy for the sport – which the workforce at Items Interactive are calling a love letter to the 1992 unique.

On prime of the gameplay, and the discharge date – we additionally obtained contemporary phrase concerning the Alone within the Darkish playable teaser Prologue that we have been beforehand instructed about at Gamescom final 12 months. That Prologue, in truth, is out now as a free obtain throughout PC, Xbox Collection X|S and PlayStation 5 – and can see you play as Grace, an necessary character within the sport. There’s no fight within the sport – given Grace is a toddler – however the workforce say it’ll give gamers a good suggestion of the ambiance and really feel of what gamers can come to count on when the sport arrives in October.

Forward of the Highlight, we have been lucky sufficient to be invited to a preview of the occasion and got the chance to ask writer THQ Nordic concerning the sport. “When creating the sport we took most of our cues from the 1992 unique and tried to protect as a lot as potential whereas nonetheless making it a contemporary expertise. This modernization goes hand in hand with, for example, an over-the-shoulder-camera and a management scheme that has change into customary.”

“Should you comply with the story of our re-imagination intently, you will discover quite a few callbacks to the unique sport and their characters, in addition to some virtually post-modern reflections on the character of remakes. What, for example, modifications if Jeremy, the character that kickstarts the story together with his letter, didn’t kill himself (as he did within the unique) however as an alternative sought remedy? In that sense the query of whether or not historical past is doomed to repeat itself has been very a lot on the builders’ minds.”

There’ll even be some preorder bonuses for keen gamers, together with the chance to swap out the participant character fashions for polygonal ones based mostly on the 1992 unique. We requested if there’d be extra light-hearted features to the sport, to which they responded “We really feel that Alone within the Darkish has an excellent potential for a assorted strategy to gameplay and story – whereas being, at its core, a scary story, there may be additionally room for humour and a few… weirdness (in a great way). So certainly, there are lighter and pastiche-y moments in our sport as nicely. Our strategy to DLCs, as you talked about, is an effective instance of that.”

So lots to sit up for then. Alone within the Darkish arrives on Xbox Collection X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC on October 25, 2023 – and the Alone within the Darkish Prologue is obtainable on these codecs proper now.

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