Don’t Blink: Supermassive’s new horror game Switchback VR is watching you
February 21, 2023Don’t blink. Don’t open your eyes. Don’t look away. Don’t look at.
It’s a nightmare scenario in a nightmare game.
When The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR hits the PlayStation®VR2 on March 16, you won’t know where to look in the roller coaster horror title thanks to just one of the new features of the next-gen VR headset that allows games to track eye movement.
Much like developer Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, Switchback is a rail shooter that pulls together the most horrifying moments of previous games. Where Rush of Blood focused on the studio’s popular Until Dawn release, Switchback crafts new scares from the most frightening concepts found in the first season of The Dark Pictures anthology of games. That means players can expect to find moments and creatures from The Devil in Me, House of Ashes, Little Hope, and Man of Medan.
To get some insight into how Supermassive Games drew on both its back catalog of horror and Unreal Engine’s design features to create this roller coaster of fear, we chatted with Supermassive Games game director and creative director about The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR.
To read the rest of this story, which first ran on Feb. 21, 2023, visit Unreal Engine.
