Alone in the Dark Review (PS5)

Before there was Resident Evil or Silent Hill, there was Alone in the Dark. The grand pappy of survival horror games had more misses than hits during its career, before it faded away into oblivion. Now it returns from its slumber with a cast of renowned actors like Jodie Comer and David Harbour. But after all these years of pause can this franchise still be relevant? Let’s find out! Since its inception in 1992, Alone in the Dark’s history has been strenuous and although it will always have its place in video game history for creating a new genre, the various iterations were not always a hit. More often than not they failed to reproduce the memorable moments of the first game, and after the low point of the 2015’s co-op focused episode, Atari sold the IP. Now the famous series return, both literally and figuratively. The new game developed by a team led by Mikael Hedberg who signed games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent or SOMA, is a throwback to the origins of the se...