Ending a seven-year gap since new series releases (Darkworks' Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare shipped in 2001), internal studio Eden Games is mere weeks away from shipping its own reinvention of the series, dubbed simply Alone in the Dark, under the Atari brand.
A blend of inventory-driven dynamic puzzles, straight-up action, and television-inspired episodic pacing, this Alone in the Dark hopes to break out of strongly-defined genre labels - its developers do not even necessarily consider it "survival horror," but rather a "survival experience."
During a recent Atari event, during which new Infogrames president Phil Harrison indicated Alone may represent the end of Atari's investment in "one-player, narrative-driven, start-middle-end games," Gamasutra also sat down with Eden producer Nour Polloni to discuss her studio's vision for the title.
The new Alone in the Dark remake doesn't do anything especially noteworthy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's just... cromulent.
The original Alone in the Dark - hailing all the way back from 1992 - is re-imagined with Unreal Engine 4. The story and puzzle elements are dramatically overhauled, where PS5, Series X and S strive for 60fps gameplay in a decent performance mode. However there are technical rough points to this release which detract from what could be a much better game.
series S performance mode, 800x450p - 1600-900p
so NEVER hits 1080, and goes as low as a ps2.
this consoles dead to me
"Alone in the Dark (2024) squanders a thick atmosphere by playing it safe - a missed opportunity to resurrect a seminal title in the survival horror canon."
- Stuart Cullen, TechStomper
I will be the 1st to say that a great game
but this game not good needed better development - not sure if the dev's were rush or just needed direction ?
either way no biggies as there has not been a good alone in the dark in many many many years.
@ROCKY28 I loved The New Nightmare, that was 25 years ago. But I still wanted this to be good.
Is anyone surprised? It's looked bad the entire time and only apologists say nice things about it.
Some of the environments had a chilling atmosphere. But that evaporates when anything happens.
