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Last September, THQ Nordic announced that its reimagining of Alone in the Dark would be delayed to January to avoid a congested release schedule in 2023 - and now the team has delayed the game a little longer for the health of its teams.
THQ has revealed that Alone in the Dark will now launch on March 20th rather than next month "to avoid any potential crunch over the Christmas holidays". Here's a bit more about the reasoning behind this short delay:
"The year is coming to an end, and the Christmas Holidays are upon us. However, until today, it didn't seem that way for Pieces Interactive, the team developing our upcoming survival-horror game, Alone in the Dark. With our initially planned release date in January 2024, the Christmas season would have been filled with stress and anything but a jolly time for them."
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It's refreshing to see such honesty from a team here, and we're glad to see Pieces Interactive get all the time it needs to polish up Alone in the Dark in a responsible, healthy manner. We'll still be here in March, ready to go hands on with this next-gen survival horror title!
In the meantime, we'll drop the team's most recent gameplay trailer down below - along with a link to the game's free prologue on Xbox if you fancy trying it out ahead of release. This one looks to be shaping up quite nicely and could be a real Xbox Series X|S treat when it lands in March 2024.
Will you be playing Alone in the Dark next March? Tell us if its on your wishlists down below.
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Just another reason why I will support this team.
I hate delays, but good on management for doing this for its employees.
Not going to lie, I was really looking forward to this in October and was sad to see it delayed to January. The push to March seems like an easier pill to swallow given the reasons.
@GamingFan4Lyf yup hate delays, but hate normalising crunch more. Good on them.
This game really has my curiosity. It’s one of the few I am looking forward to. I’m glad to hear they are being supportive and thinking of their team’s wellbeing. Most companies are money hungry and would push their teams. I appreciate what they are doing here.
I’m conflicted on this.
They said the game was ready to go for October launch. Then it was delayed to January because they didn’t want to get snowed under by all the other games (okay, business decision, I get that) but now it’s delayed again to March to avoid crunch?
So, the game wasn’t finished and ready to go for October after all and needs months of work to finish? Also fine but why not just say that in the first place.
Oh well, happy to see it’s going to be polished for release. Got my pre-order in and I’m hyped.
A good game is good forever. A bad game is bad forever. A rushed game is rushed forever. A game is a game is a game. Wait...what was I saying 🫠
I really hope this game is good! A respectable move on part of management
@NintendoByNature Unless your CDPR who managed to turn lemons into lemonade.
@MrFrosty I do think it was admitted that the team was putting more polish into the game during that time. Now, I'm guessing they are at a point of no return and probably need to finish whatever polish they wanted to add but can't do come January unless they want to add in crunch time.
It does smell a little bit like smoke & mirrors, though, in that the game really wouldn't have been done in October - unless the developer was actually willing to do that whole "release in an unpolished state and patch later" that always goes over so well with gamers!
Sounds like they care about the employees and stuff, but if the game was ready for launch when Inclusive-Man 2 released, I can't imagine they need to do too much? Or maybe I'm missing something?
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