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After an hour with Directive 8020, I worry the latest Dark Pictures game feels a little flat

Eurogamer.net·Robert Purchese·about 1 month ago
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Developing some negatives. Image credit: Supermassive Supermassive's "party horror" games, as I like to call them, have become a guilty pleasure of mine. This series famously began with Until Dawn in 2015 and peaked with House of Ashes in 2021 , if you ask me. (Although I enjoyed the schlocky Quarry in 2022 as well.) It's a series pitched like an interactive horror movie, where you try to shepherd a group of ill-fated characters through a slasher by making various important choices for them, hoping they don't get shredded as a result. These aren't specifically multiplayer games, but the real fun of them comes when other people are around, either because they shout out what you should do - "Don't go down there on your own!" - or as they directly control some of the characters in hotseat multiplayer mode. Hotseat multiplayer! It's so retro.…

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