THQ Nordic has announced Alone in the Dark, a new game based on the characters, locations and themes of the 1990s games Alone in the Dark. However, it is not a remake of those games. The game will be released for consoles and PC.

In Alone in the Dark, players take on the roles of Emily Heartwood or Edward Carnby, characters who were also in the first three games. However, the game’s story has been modified, Publisher says. In the new game, Emily Heartwood goes to Derceto Manor to find her missing uncle. Private investigator Edward Carnby helps her. Derceto Manor is a psychiatric facility in the US state of Louisiana. The game takes place in the 1920s.

While the new Alone in the Dark game has many of the elements of the first games, it does According to THQ Nordic It does not require you to have played those first games. At the same time, certain parts of the game will be recognized for people who played the first trilogy. The monsters in the game are new, with hints for the old monsters.

Alone in the Dark features a “classic survival horror game” where players must explore the environment, solve puzzles, and fight monsters. The story’s writer is Mikael Hedberg, who also wrote the events for the horror games SOMA and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Jay Davis, who often works with director Guillermo del Toro, helped design The Monsters. The agony of jazz in play comes from Dutchman Jason Cohnen.

It is not clear when the game will appear. The game is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, S, and on PC. The developer is a Swedish interactive cutting studio. Alone in the Dark is a horror game series originally created by the French studio Infogrames. THQ Nordic has acquired the rights to the game In 2018 around.