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Directive 8020’s rewind feature makes play-your-own-survival-horror easier for completionists


We played a brief segment of The Dark Pictures' second season at SGF 2025. And saying 'played' is a bit of a stretch.

Finally, I got to play (but only for a few minutes), moving stealthily around the lower deck of the hydroponics bay while my alien copy (now fungal and angry) tried to hunt me down. I discussed this with my colleague Jessica Conditt, and we’re both the kind of players to continue with our terrible decisions in games like Directive 8020, the Dark Pictures Anthology, Until Dawn and the rest. The demo shifted back to a more narrative focus and cutscenes, briefly interrupted by the possibility that one crew member (specifically, the CEO funding the whole operation) might be an alien.

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