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Supermassive Delays ‘The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR’ to March
Originally set for release next month, Supermassive Games’ The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR has been pushed back to March 16th. The date change results in Switchback VR missing out on being a launch title for Sony’s PlayStation VR2.
Taking to Twitter, Supermassive explained the situation: “It has always been our aim to release in the launch window of the new PlayStation VR2 headset but it is also massively important to us that you, the players, receive the most polished, terrifying experience possible when you strap in for your first ride in The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR. With this in mind, we have made the difficult decision to set a new launch date of March 16, 2023.”
The good news for fans is that you’ll have more time to snag the pre-order bonuses available via the PlayStation Store. Those who purchase the Switchback VR prior to its March release for $39.99 will also snag a number of cosmetic items for the game, including the Demon Handgun, a premium skull and bones cart, a skull bobblehead, and a special edition gold gun.
Similar to Supermassive’s Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is an on-rails shooter that takes pieces from the first season of The Dark Pictures Anthology. Players will meet up with each entry’s antagonist, requiring them to make quick decisions in order to survive. Along the way, you’ll discover how your story connects with each of these worlds, and make sense of the nightmare. And thanks to the PSVR2’s new eye-tracking features and haptic feedback capabilities, players will be granted a more immersive experience than before.
A Message from the Switchback VR team. pic.twitter.com/7w5PvBv7Ps
— Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames) January 23, 2023
Fans of Strange Scaffold and publisher Frosty Pop’s apocalyptic Life Eater have another reason to keep coming back to the game, as the much-anticipated Endless Mode is available now. Best of all, it’s a free update!
The new endless mode gives Life Eater players an arena to determine how long they can evade capture while delaying the end of the world. Collect score points called ZEAL by building an airtight procedure around your sacrifices, investigate the lives of countless procedurally generated kidnapping targets, and survive as long as possible in your personal gauntlet of nightmares.
“We’re so excited to expand the playtime of Life Eater with a uniquely dark and intriguing systemic experience,” says Strange Scaffold founder Xalavier Nelson Jr. “You really just terrorize an entire city of people over the span of decades, now, and I can only hope that I don’t come to regret writing that sentence in a press release.”
For those not in the know, Life Eater (check out Aaron’s review here) is a horror fantasy kidnapping simulator where you play as a druid living in suburbia. You serve a dark entity by abducting and sacrificing specific but vaguely described humans every year to stop the apocalypse. Use a unique video editing-inspired interface to discover the intimate lives of your victims, one schedule block at a time. When the time is right, abduct them before authorities find out.
You can snag a copy of Life Eater on Steam.
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