I’m vastly excited to announce Directive 8020 – an all-new sci-fi survival horror journey coming in 2025 from Supermassive Video games.
Directive 8020 is an all-new sci-fi survival horror journey with all of the immersive cinematic gameplay that you simply’d count on from a Supermassive recreation however now with much more options and participant company than we’ve got ever completed earlier than.
So, first let’s begin with the Story. Earth is dying and humanity is operating out of time. 12 mild years away the planet Tau Ceti f affords a small sliver of hope, however when the colony ship Cassiopeia crashes onto the planet the crew quickly notice they’re removed from alone.
Hunted by an alien organism able to mimicking its prey, the crew of the Cassiopeia should outwit their pursuers to make it residence alive. As they battle to outlive, they’re confronted with the toughest alternative of all: to save lots of themselves, they have to threat the lives of everybody on Earth.
Naturally, because it’s a Supermassive horror recreation – issues usually are not going to go to plan for our pioneering crew!
Throughout the sport, you’ll discover the claustrophobic, stranded wreck of our recon ship, the Cassiopeia. A darkish, terrifying location crammed with horrors. Our recreation attracts inspiration from completely different sci-fi horror movies: from Alien by way of to Occasion Horizon. Like lots of these motion pictures, this recreation explores themes of sci-fi horror. We’re adrift in house, insignificant and inconsequential in comparison with the vastness of house. The universe itself is uncaring and comfortless.
In house, demise takes many varieties
We additionally lean into physique horror. Our alien entity has a grotesque design: warped flesh, effervescent, pustule-like eyes, and polymorphous kind. Worse of all, it might probably reform its physique to imitate any one among your crew. You should determine who to belief in a world the place anybody might be a lethal alien impostor.
Over the course of the sport you’ll management 5 crew members and play every of them a number of instances – their destiny rests in your arms as every crew member underneath your management lives or dies based mostly on your actions. It is a branching horror journey the place your choices form the ultimate end result of the story. Nevertheless it wont be straightforward – for the primary time in a Darkish Photos recreation you’ll face real-time threats.
Clever, Hunter/Killer aliens which is able to monitor you down and homicide you if you happen to slip up. That is pure “on the sticks” gameplay and is totally new for the Darkish Photos. To outlive, you’ll want to cover, evade, and overcome a wide range of monsters. There isn’t a consolation in exploration anymore – if you happen to don’t preserve your wits about you, it might spell the tip to your character.
We’ve fully redesigned our character motion controls to assist stealth. You’ll must adapt to every new risk you face. There are lots of completely different phases of what we name ‘mimics’ in the sport, from humanlike characters who act usually however usually are not human all, to a full blown hunter kind the place any try at mimicry has been deserted in favour of brute power.
The DNA of the Darkish Photos remains to be current although – in reality, the whole lot you like in regards to the Darkish Photos remains to be right here, from branching plotlines by way of to inconceivable selections. However as you’ll see, we’ve redesigned, polished, and amped up our gameplay from the bottom as much as lean extra into sci-fi survival horror.
And eventually, similar to our earlier video games we’re tremendous proud to have one other superb star function in our solid. In Directive 8020 we’ve got Lashana Lynch on the helm. You’ll acknowledge Lashana from motion pictures akin to 007 No Time to Die, The Girl King, Captain Marvel and Bob Marley: One Love. Lashana performs the function of Brianna Younger, the pilot of the Cassiopeia. She is one among Earth’s greatest astronauts and the survival of the crew, and probably Earth, is partly in her arms – and yours relying on the way you play the sport!
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Keep in mind – In house, demise takes many varieties!
Directive 8020 is accessible to wishlist at present!