#dreadout getting a third game

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DreadOut Remastered Collection now available for PC - Gematsu

DreadOut Remastered Collection is now available for PC via Steam, Soft Source Publishing and developer Digital Happiness announced. It is available at a 30 percent off discount price of $20.99 until May 21, after which the price will change to $29.99.

The collection, which includes DreadOut and DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark, first launched for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on January 16.

Here is an overview of the collection, via its Steam page:

About

A collector’s dream! A compilation consisting of the original DreadOut and DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark.

About DreadOut

DreadOut is a third-person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone and an SLR camera, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate. Help her overcome the challenges that will stand before her. Survive the Dread! When a group of high school students went astray from a field trip, they came across something totally unexpected. A town long forgotten, trapped in a peaceful state of slumber. What they did not realize was what lurks within. And what seemed like an innocent stroll turns into disaster as the secluded town reveals its dark and terrible secrets. The presence of sinister forces from beyond their realm of existence. It all comes down to Linda. She will experience stirrings of unfamiliar powers, emerging from within her. These newfound abilities might just be the only way she can save her own life and those of her friends.

About DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark

DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within. Follow the event in which Linda was transported by The Mysterious Lady in Red into The Mirror Realm. A portal of worlds that connects it to eight haunted dominions where over 13 horrific ghosts are ready to greet her in the most terrifying way possible. They will stop at nothing to thwart your main objective: To survive! So, get your smart phone and SLR camera ready and choose your path wisely. The doors you open will decide the outcome of Linda’s fate.

Watch a new trailer below.

PC Launch Trailer

[heretyc]

Short list of horror games to try if you like Outlast

Welcome to this totally incredible list. If you’re like me, you like Outlast and enjoy the thrill it gives off. Well, ladies and gents, I’m not gonna stall. I have made this list so you can expand your horizons a bit if you decide to give other horror games a try.

1. DreadOut

An Indonesian horror game [it’s in English, don’t panic!], where you play as an Indonesian high schooler who has to explore a haunted school to save her classmates and her teacher.

It’s similar to Outlast in the aspect of exploring a new place, and you have to do a lot of running around. You also get a camera and a phone to document your findings.

There is an antagonist who is quite similar to Val too;

It’s available on Steam. 

2. Siren Blood Curse

Guys!! I love the FUCK out of this game, you have no idea! 

This is the third installment of the SIREN series, but I heavily prefer this one. 

You play as a multitude of characters, including an exchange student, a little girl, the parents to that little girl, a deranged doctor, one of the cultists who took place in the ritual, and more. It’s incredible.

A lot of shit goes on, but in a nutshell, you interrupt a blood ritual that takes place in Japan and are stuck in a loop. You have to fight a literal GOD to stop the curse from spreading.

Cool part is, once you play as the little girl, she cannot be in combat, or else it’s game over. You’re technically an Outlast protagonist at this point! But one of her stages is glitched, so you can troll the shit out of the Shibito [blood zombies]. There is some funny stuff in here too if you pay attention to the Archives.

It’s available on PS3, and it’s FREE on PSNow if you have a PS4! I’ve been binging it like crazy.  

3. Rule of Rose

This game doesn’t have jumpscares or anything, but it does have a really fucked up story line, and it does have some creepy antagonists. It was also banned in the UK. It’s incredibly expensive as well.

You follow Jennifer. A 19 year old woman, who visits an orphanage from her childhood, with her dog Brown. You have to fight against little girls and other shitty people. You’ll get angry at Jennifer, because you’ll think she’s letting these 13 year olds take advantage of her, but honey, you’ve got a big storm coming.

Plot twist? You’re actually in Jennifer’s memories. I’m not gonna spoil the ending, but that plot twist is what mostly confused people. 

PLEASE play with caution; there’s graphic content, and because you’re in the memories of a young girl, there is a child’s interpretation of abuse, rape, abortion and more.  

Excluding the horror stuff, it’s a beautiful game. Lovely soundtrack [Love Suicide is my jam], it has intended lesbian relationships, and it’s just a good game for its time. [2006]

If you have the money, and you’re not in the UK [not sure if the ban was lifted], it’s for PS2. 

4. F.E.A.R

I used to watch my brother play this a lot. I still like it to this day.

F.E.A.R is a first person shooter survival horror, where you and a team have to fight against a paranormal entity, known as Alma Wade. If you’ve played Resident Evil 7, it’s a lot like this. 

It’s available for Xbox 360, PS3, and Microsoft Windows.

5. Alice Madness Returns

You’ve most likely heard of this beautiful game if you’ve been browsing YouTube or Tumblr. I’ve even made a collage of this lovely example of the psychological horror genre. 

You play as Alice. A woman suffering from trauma caused by a housefire that killed her entire family. To rid of her trauma and to learn the truth, she explores her quickly dissipating wonderland. 

It’s aesthetic, scary, fucked up...so many words. But you’d have to play it yourself to see.

There is also American McGee’s version, but both are equally amazing. 

It’s available on Steam, PS3, Xbox, and probably more. 

If you guys DO decide to check these out, I recommend watching Playthroughs to see if they’re your style! I don’t want you wasting money and you deciding they aren’t your cup of tea.

[masked-fox-creations]

For the third day of the Stay In Home order I played “Dreadout”. Before I go any further let me explain that I’m one of those assholes who proclaims to love the horror genre but never gets actually scared by this shit and often doesn’t understand why unscary horror media gets praised. 

Not to call anyone a coward if this game scares them! But like. I played this shit at night, alone, in the dark, with a heavy thunderstorm right outside my window. I tried folks, I tried.

I don’t know why this helpful diagram is so goddamn funny to me. It’s those stances I think.

So let’s start at the beginning, which is Act 0. Act 0 is not a good way to start this game for a few reasons. One, the ghost sucks. It torments you for a second but then leaves you alone, jumpscares you without really doing any damage until you snap a photo and kill it. Two, like a couple minutes in and my game froze. This was not the last time. 

This looks like a shot from a queer teen romance. That just happens to have ghosts. I really hope that the rest of this game turns into a love story between these two. Filled with ghosts.

Fun fact! When you die, you run through limbo which uh. It gives you messages.

Is this real life? Am I being trolled?

Funner fact! You spawn right back where you were. Right where the enemy that killed you still is. Then another shows up because fuck you, and they kill you a few more times while you’re frantically stuck. Until of course they murdered me so much that they just left, like “Bitch, now this is just getting sad.”

I eventually did kill them, however, and went to this giant hanging lady. Then there was a dead end so I consulted a walkthrough. Did everything the walkthrough did, found another one and tried it too. The end of the act would not trigger for me. I tried for upwards of 20 goddamn minutes but the hanging lady would not fall so I just gave up and skipped to Act 1. 

Then things got better. A little. The dialogue is maybe better in the original language. Here it’s sort of just lackluster, and a teenager actually used the term “blabbermouth.” It’s not like they were trying not to cuss either, they curse in front of the teacher accompanying them several times!

But yeah, things pick up a little when you’re in the school and ofc separated from the rest of the group. For a moment it’s actually kinda terrifying!

For a moment. Things quickly get mundane, most places look alike and I never really knew where I was, and things that were at first terrifying grew predictable and boring. Even Mr. Piggly Wiggly. 

He looks so sad that he can’t reach me and eat my flesh. Poor baby.

There’s also a ghost head zooming around that at first is startling as fuck! But he’s harmless and I decided we were friends. I named him Frank, because frankly the guy ain’t scary.

Best part is whenever you see this black cat. Can’t interact with him, though, and that breaks my heart. Cute when he rubs his head against you. That’s something.

This is a pretty mixed bag. There’s real potential, and maybe the sequel is a huge improvement, but I don’t think I’ll come back to this one. 

Don’t even talk to me unless your setup looks like this.

[ludwigfanfunkoven]

as far as decent horror games I'd recommend to @mansionbasement and anyone, really, here's a list countdown vampires - PS1 the alone in the dark series pre-alone in the dark(2008) silent hill 1-4 - ps1/2. shattered memories for wii/psp is neat too blue stinger if you're REALLY up for jank - dreamcast illbleed is a neat little game from what I've played and what I've heard - dreamcast overblood's a fun little game - ps1 haunting ground - ps2 rule of rose, but beware attrocious gameplay - PS2 darkwood - PC seriously try it out STALKER - PC metro 2033 - anything 7+ gen, not including nintendo systems and portables shadows of the damned is p neat - any 7+ gen home console, excluding nintendo systems dead rising 1/2 - same as above, more or less eternal darkness - gamecube the trapt/deception/kagero series - PS1/2/3/vita galerians - ps1. haven't tried galerians ash and never even knew it existed until recently tbh shadow hearts 1, 2(covenant)/koudelka - PS2/ps1. from the new world is pretty hit or miss, one major miss being the protagonist being a jrpg bitchboy penumbra trilogy - PC. first game has combat, second game has improvised combat, third game is a weird puzzle game X-COM UFOD/TFTD/apocalypse - PC. the OG xcoms, not the new ones. those suck and so does xenonauts dead space 1/2 - 7+ gen systems, really bloodrayne 1, maybe 2 - ps2/xbox/pc onimusha 1-3, dawn of dreams - ps2/xbox/ps4 soon onechanbara if you want mindless hack n slash with titties flopping about, though usually clothed(but barely!) - ps2/360/wii/ps3?/pc/ps4 devil may cry 1/3/4 but NOT DmC - ps2/360/ps3, pc if you're feeling particularly saucy deadly premonition - 360/PC/PS3. not a single version play smooth extermination - ps2 the suffering 1/2 - ps2/xbox killing floor - PC lifeline - PS2. requires a microphone and is frustrating to play but is honestly a very neat game dino crisis 1/2 - ps1/PC. dino stalker is ok if you like arcadey lightgun games, dino crisis 3 isn't real king's field series - ps1/2 shadow tower - ps1 cryostasis - PC. good luck finding a legit copy. good luck getting that to run. FEAR 1/2 - PC/I think consoles but who cares just play it on PC system shock 1/2 - PC dreadout - PC prototype mansion - PC the red solstice - PC state of decay - PC/360

that's all I can remember honorable mentions: interstellar marines. sure it's in permanent beta but goddamn is it cool experience 112. I dunno if it's actually a horror game yet tbh

and of course, the resident evil series it's gone through almost every type of horror subgenre there is! like, what, what the fuck does it have left? point and click adventures? multiplayer online FPS? honestly, I dunno

anyway, a lot of these games aren’t really what one could consider good, but they’re what *I* would recommend

as for what I wouldn’t recommend?

chaos break echo night beyond cold fear dino crisis 3 devil may cry 2 DmC dead space 3 dead rising 3-4. especially 4

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DreadOut 2 Gets Gameplay Teaser Trailer

DreadOut 2 Gets Gameplay Teaser Trailer

Digital Happiness have released a new gameplay teaser trailer for the third-person horror adventure game, DreadOut 2.

Here is an overview of the game:

A unique take on third-person action-adventure survival horror injected with Indonesian supernatural culture. Gameplay is a mix of city exploration, DreadOut-style smartphone ghost hunting, and new action-packed battles within DreadOut‘s…

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Detention

by Ronan Wills

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Taiwan's history of martial law makes for an excellent portable horror game

Oooh! This is in the Axis of Awesome!~

Horror video games are in an odd spot right now. With my beloved Silent Hill buried beneath the ashes of Konami and the genre dormant in the big-budget space (although Capcom might be giving it a sharp poke back into wakefulness, if Resident Evil 7 and the upcoming Resident Evil 2 remake are anything to go by), gamers looking for a scary good time have increasingly turned to the indie scene to get their fix.

But even that’s starting to stagnate, with a plethora of shabby titles ripping off whatever the latest big trend is. The

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

clones weren’t too bad, but things got really dire once

Five Night’s At Freddy’s

came along.

There is, however, another trend that’s flown under the radar. In recent years, indie horror games from south-east Asia have started to crop up here and there. Developed with an international audience in mind but touting their local culture and mythology as a selling point, these games stand out both due to their point of origin and because they tend to take inspiration from older, more well-regarded horror classics, instead of chasing the latest flash in the pan. The trend seems to have begun with

DreadOut

, a Kickstarted game from Indonesia heavily inspired by the Fatal Frame/Project Zero franchise, and over the last few years more and more have popped up on Steam and other digital platforms.

Jonesing for something spooky to play and realizing that I hadn’t dipped my toe into this particular corner of the market yet, I browsed the Nintendo Switch online store and spotted

Detention

, a Taiwanese game from developer Red Candle. I remembered hearing good things about it when it was released on the PC early last year, but I didn’t know much about it past the basic plot setup and that it’s a 2D side-scrolling game.

Now I’m just kicking myself for not playing it sooner. Everyone who loves classic horror games and who harbours hope for the future of the genre needs to play this game immediately.

Detention

takes place in the 1960s, during the period of Taiwanese history known as the White Terror. The country is under the rule of the nationalist Kuomintang, who use anti-Communist paranoia and tension with neighbouring China to brutally stamp out any hint of dissent among the populace. Our protagonist is Fang Ray Shin, a seventeen year old high school student on the cusp of graduation and adulthood.

Trapped in her school during an unseasonable typhoon, Ray finds herself in a nightmarish version of her familiar world, where ghostly creatures roam the halls and supernatural manifestations force her to confront the events of her recent past--events that she either doesn’t remember, or is trying desperately to forget.

If that setup sounds just a wee bit familiar, then you’ll understand why I sat up and gasped in delight more or less the moment I started playing

Detention

. It’s very clearly and obviously riffing on the older

Silent Hill

games, and unlike many horror games that have tried to do this over the years, it both successfully distills the essence of what made

Silent Hill

so memorable and also manages to retain its own identity.

Despite the 2D presentation,

Detention’s

gameplay is as familiar and comfortable as a favourite pair of slippers. You explore spooky, elaborate environments, searching for clues and items to help you solve puzzles that usually operate on some amount of dream logic. You’ll use items on environmental objects, you’ll hunt down keys, you’ll find statues that look as though they’re meant to be holding something but are currently not holding anything...it’s very familiar survival horror fare. The puzzles are uniformly clever and intriguing; as the game goes on they ramp up in difficulty nicely, eventually requiring the sort of lateral thinking that leads to satisfying “ah ha!” moments. Smart environmental design means that you’ll never fail to progress simply because you didn’t press A on the right piece of background; things you’re meant to interact with are clearly signposted as such.

Where Detention diverges from its inspiration is in enemy encounters. Realizing that combat was always the worst part of classic horror games, Red Candle decided to do away with it entirely in favour of light stealth mechanics. You’ll be looking to avoid

Detention’s

eerie monsters rather than kill them, although I don’t want to spoil the main mechanic by which you do that because it’s pretty original. Enemies aren’t very common--they show up just enough that you’re always worried about running into one, but the game doesn’t throw them at you just for the sake of creating artificial difficulty. Puzzles and plot are the main focus here, particularly in the game's second half.

Said plot is easily

Detention’s

greatest asset. From the very first scene, where a teacher is called away by the school’s political officer for unknown reasons, the game establishes a heavy atmosphere of dread. Its handling of Taiwan’s history really demonstrates the difference between people telling the stories of their own culture and an outsider doing it. A western developer would likely have gone much heavier on the White Terror angle, rather than taking the much more nuanced approach that Red Candle did.

The White Terror is both ever-present and distant. Like all people who live through history, Ray isn’t aware that her experiences will one day seem extraordinary to future generations, or that the society she lives in will come to be viewed as a transient period of darkness between relative stretches of light. This is just her life; she and her classmates and family and teachers have the same daily concerns as anyone else living at any other time, they just happen to exist in an environment where mundane actions and worries can get people killed. Feeling stifled by her surroundings and her home life and yearning to escape, but not knowing what that would look like in practice, Ray takes the kinds of reckless actions that young people the world over are prone to. The fact that her life is engulfed in tragedy as a result isn’t treated as remarkable or even unfair; it’s just the reality of the time and place she happens to live in.

If you’re familiar with

Silent Hill

-inspired games, you’ll know that they like to have Big Plot Twists of a certain nature. Very early on, I figured out what I thought was going to be

Detention’s

Big Plot Twist, but it turns out that the developers were one step ahead of me. Obviously anticipating this reaction from savvy horror fans, they de-twist the twist by basically giving the game away well before the climax. The suggestive symbolism littered throughout the personalized hell that Ray finds herself in lays out the basic fundamentals of what happened to her and the other characters and why she’s in the situation she’s in very clearly, and then a combination of cut-scenes and documents makes it explicit if you’re paying any attention at all. This turns out to be a smart move on Red Candle’s part, as trying to conceal the truth for a Big Plot Twist would likely have failed, and the exact specifics of why everything happened is more interesting than the mere fact that it did happen.

Ray herself is one of the best-written videogame characters I’ve seen in years. Initially encountered through someone else’s perspective, she comes off at first glance as the sort of timid, helpless heroine that horror likes to go in for. But as you peel back the layers of the plot, she turns out to be something very different altogether, both stronger and weaker than she appeared at first, and heart-breakingly relatable even as she’s caught up in circumstances that most of the people playing as her will (hopefully) never experience.

More than just well-written, Detention is subtle and intelligent. Visuals, music, plot and dialogue weave together in eye-opening and unexpected ways, forcing you to constantly re-examine things you saw earlier in new light. It really does reach the heights of meaningful, subtle symbolism that Silent Hill achieved at its best. At times, it might exceed it.

I’m enough of a

Silent Hill

mega fan that that’s high praise indeed. In case it didn’t come through clear enough, I loved every single second of

Detention

, from its mysterious, foreboding opening to it's heart-breaking conclusion. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the successor to the throne of the top tier of videogame horror that Konami relinquished when they started farming Silent Hill out to inexperienced studios, and my anticipation for Red Candles’ next game is physically painful.

All that aside, the game has a few irritating flaws. The English version is plagued with a number of typos and grammatical errors, including the occasional straight up missing word; judging by Red Candles’ English website, it seems like they don’t have any entirely fluent speakers on staff, and it shows. The problems aren’t enough to be a deal breaker by any means, but the mistakes are jarring given how well written the dialogue is, and it’s disappointing to see these errors uncorrected in a version of the game released well over a year after the initial PC release.

At one point, the game brings up a student/teacher relationship which (reading between the lines) appears to have become sexual. Taken at face value, the way the story leaves off this plot point could be read as alarmingly positive. Thinking about it a bit more deeply in context, the rose-tinted way the relationship is portrayed is being filtered entirely through the perspective of the student--who has understandable reasons for feeling that way and wildly mis-interprets other adult dynamics--rather than any detached authorial voice. The only third-party opinion we get on the situation comes from another adult who's generally portrayed as an empathetic type with her head screwed on straight; the fact that she basically calls the teacher involved a predator is, I feel, a pretty clear indicator of where the developers' own feelings lie (there are also some horror elements of the game that don't exactly paint the adult party in a positive light).

Still, I wanted to bring it up in case readers may be uncomfortable with the idea of playing a game that tackled this subject matter at all. Other than this plot point, the game stays entirely away from sexual violence and abuse, which I thought was an admirable bit of restraint given how dark some of the other topics handled are (this is, again, somewhere that I feel a western developer might have tripped up).

Also, the Switch version of the game chugs and drops the framerate during visually busy environments. I’m assuming this issue isn’t present in other versions of the game, but it’s something to be aware of if you’re considering where to play it.

Regardless of how you play it, I recommend you do play it.

Detention

is the best horror game I've played in years and easily one of the most nuanced, mature stories in the medium as a whole. I have no hesitation in making it my inaugural

Axis of Awesome

entry on Ferretbrain.

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DreadOut

October is a spooky season! Now, I have said before that I have such low tolerance for anything horror. I don’t watch horror movies, I don’t read horror stories (if I can avoid it), and I don’t play horror games. 

My friend Bis on the other hand...

This 2014 title by Digital Happiness takes us to Indonesia, where a group of high school students wander off on a field trip. They stumble across a long forgotten town, and quickly the town begins to reveal its terrible secrets. Our protagonist, Linda, discovers that she has some unfamiliar powers, and she might be able to use them to save herself and her friends. 

This game looks so spooky I couldn’t even watch the trailer. So, I’ve recruited my good friend Bis (they/she/he), a horror pro, to be my guest streamer this week! They like horror games a lot, and I’m really hoping that this is up her alley. [Also, if you want to see some of the cute-creepy-mystical art that they do, check out https://twitter.com/bisthebox]

Digital Happiness is a development team based out of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Here are some more features and notes on the game from their website:

Features:

• Explore a haunted environment in an Asian - Indonesian setting. • Battle against terrifying beings from a supernatural realm. • Solve mysterious puzzles that block your path. • Switch between first person and third person view. • Engage in a thrilling storyline. • Get access to Linda's unlockable wardrobe

Rated 17+ for the following:

Frequent / Intense horror / fear themes Infrequent / Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent / Mild Sexual Content or Nudity Infrequent Mature / Mild Suggestive Themes

I’m a little skeptical of the “unlockable wardrobe,” since those outfits are usually more fan service-y than anything else (like an actual, cool wardrobe). But we’ll see. This sounds like a really spooky and exciting game, and I’m sure regardless Bis and I will have a great time!

That said... I may need to leave the room if I get too spooked! Sorry!

Tune in for some sure-to-be-had shenanigans tonight 10/19/17 at 8:30p CST on Twitch.tv/imenvi0us

[satoshi-mochida]

DreadOut Remastered Collection launches January 16, 2025 - Gematsu

DreadOut Remastered Collection will launch for PlayStation 5 and Switch on January 16, 2025, publisher Soft Source Publishing and developer Digital Happiness announced.

Here is an overview of the collection, via Soft Source Publishing:

About DreadOut

DreadOut is a third-person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone and an SLR camera, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate. Help her overcome the challenges that will stand before her. Survive the Dread! When a group of high school students went astray from a field trip, they came across something totally unexpected. A town long forgotten trapped in a peaceful state of slumber. What they did not realize was what lurks within. And what seemed like an innocent stroll turns into disaster as the secluded town reveals its dark and terrible secrets. The presence of sinister forces from beyond their realm of existence. It all comes down to Linda. She will experience stirrings of unfamiliar powers, emerging from within her. These new found abilities might just be the only way she can save her own life and those of her friends.

Explore a haunted environment in an Asian-Indonesian setting.

Battle against terrifying beings from a supernatural realm.

Solve mysterious puzzles that block your path.

Switch between first person and third person view.

Engage in a thrilling storyline.

Play Act 1 and 2 of Linda’s terrifying journey along with Act 0 (previously released as DreadOut Demo).

Get access to Linda’s unlockable wardrobe.

About DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark

DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within. Follow the event in which Linda was transported by The Mysterious Lady in Red into The Mirror Realm. A portal of worlds that connects it to eight haunted dominions where 13-plus horrific ghosts are ready to greet her in the most terrifying way possible. They will stop at nothing to thwart your main objective: To survive! So, get your smart phone and SLR camera ready and choose your path wisely. The doors you open will decide the outcome of Linda’s fate.

Battle against 13-plus specially designed ghosts originated from the twisted minds of our beloved backers, meticulously implemented into the DreadOut universe.

Work your way through 8-plus supernatural realms in a nonlinear fashion.

Two brand new levels previously unincluded in DreadOut.

Solve mysterious puzzles obstructing Linda’s escape to liberation.

Explore in third-person view and battle in first-person view.

Find out more about Linda’s journey and dive deeper into DreadOut’s grand scheme of things.

New storyline that will shed some light into Linda’s mysterious journey.

Watch a new trailer below.

Release Date Trailer

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DreadOut Remastered Collection announced for PS5, Switch

From Gematsu

Singapore-based publisher Soft Source Publishing and developer Digital Happiness have announced DreadOut Remastered Collection for PlayStation 5 and Switch. It includes the original DreadOut and the new standalone game DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark. It will launch in 2024. A physical edition will also be available in Asia.

“Having worked on bringing DreadOut 2 to consoles, the team at Soft Source Publishing were enthralled by the idea when Pak Rachmad CEO of Digital Happiness threw out the idea of bringing back DreadOut and DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark to consoles,” said Soft Source Publishing director Sameer Pandit in a press release. “It’s an immediate thought that we want to be a part of this new project. DreadOut is an iconic IP in Asia and has been spreading its wings in the rest of the world with the release of DreadOut 2 on consoles.”

Here is an overview of the collection, via Soft Source Publishing:

About DreadOut

DreadOut is a third-person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone and an SLR camera, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate. Help her overcome the challenges that will stand before her. Survive the Dread! When a group of high school students went astray from a field trip, they came across something totally unexpected. A town long forgotten trapped in a peaceful state of slumber. What they did not realize was what lurks within. And what seemed like an innocent stroll turns into disaster as the secluded town reveals its dark and terrible secrets. The presence of sinister forces from beyond their realm of existence. It all comes down to Linda. She will experience stirrings of unfamiliar powers, emerging from within her. These new found abilities might just be the only way she can save her own life and those of her friends.

Explore a haunted environment in an Asian-Indonesian setting.

Battle against terrifying beings from a supernatural realm.

Solve mysterious puzzles that block your path.

Switch between first person and third person view.

Engage in a thrilling storyline.

Play Act 1 and 2 of Linda’s terrifying journey along with Act 0 (previously released as DreadOut Demo).

Get access to Linda’s unlockable wardrobe.

About DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark

DreadOut: Keepers of the Dark is a new standalone horror game that takes place in the DreadOut universe. In this missing chapter, you will help Linda face the challenges of the DreadOut world with even more dangers lurking within. Follow the event in which Linda was transported by The Mysterious Lady in Red into The Mirror Realm. A portal of worlds that connects it to eight haunted dominions where 13-plus horrific ghosts are ready to greet her in the most terrifying way possible. They will stop at nothing to thwart your main objective: To survive! So, get your smart phone and SLR camera ready and choose your path wisely. The doors you open will decide the outcome of Linda’s fate.

Battle against 13-plus specially designed ghosts originated from the twisted minds of our beloved backers, meticulously implemented into the DreadOut universe.

Work your way through 8-plus supernatural realms in a nonlinear fashion.

Two brand new levels previously unincluded in DreadOut.

Solve mysterious puzzles obstructing Linda’s escape to liberation.

Explore in third-person view and battle in first-person view.

Find out more about Linda’s journey and dive deeper into DreadOut’s grand scheme of things.

New storyline that will shed some light into Linda’s mysterious journey.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

Update 05/15/24 at 1:45 a.m.: An earlier version of this article listed MassHive Media as an additional developer and PQube as an additional publisher. Soft Source Publishing has reached out to Gematsu to clarify that this was an error on its official website, and that neither company are involved in DreadOut Remastered Collection.