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New Gameplay Trailer Released for Haunted Hotel Title ‘The Cecil: The Journey Begins’ [Trailer]
After dropping a demo during last year’s Steam Scream Fest, Genie Interactive Games have released a new gameplay trailer for their first-person action-horror title The Cecil: The Journey Begins. Available via Game Rant, the new trailer gives prospective players a glimpse at the game’s puzzle-solving and first-person action mechanics.
The story for The Cecil revolves around John and Sarah as they venture to the Cecil Hotel for a romantic getaway. However, things take a nightmarish turn when they fall asleep, as John wakes up locked in a cell, and Sarah is gone. John must now not only escape, but find Sarah before it’s too late.
As John, you must search the halls of the hotel, which just so happens to have monsters and what’s referred to as “screamers” roaming around. Luckily, John is able to fight back with firearms and “utilize objects in the world to escape your fate.”
And seeing as we’re going down the Survival Horror route, you’ll also be solving fast-paced puzzles and collect various items along the way to help you progress to new areas, as you uncover the details of how things came to be at this mysterious hotel.
And in case you missed the demo that was available during Steam Scream Fest, that’s still very much on the Steam page. No release date has been announced for The Cecil: The Journey Begins yet.
Moon Studios dropped a new trailer during the Sony State of Play for their dark action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, while also hinting at the long-awaited launch window for the full 1.0 release. The game, which has been in Early Access on Steam since April 2024, will be launching this October in full for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam, while versions for the Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2 will arrive at a later date.
As a token of appreciation for supporters new and old, Moon Studios is offering an exclusive Early Access Founder’s Pack, a free limited edition bundle available for anyone who purchases the game on Steam prior to July 10, with rewards unlocking when 1.0 officially launches. PlayStation 5 users can receive the Early Access Founder’s Pack by pre-ordering the game once available, any time before launch day.
The Founder’s Pack includes:
- A New Secret Hideout: Spirit Cavern – The legacy of Moon Studios now lives inside No Rest for the Wicked, exclusively for Founders. A hand-crafted home that bridges both worlds.
- Sayer’s Vow: An all new Sword in the stone reserved just for the founders that only early adopters can extract in the game world.
- A Custom Founders Tag ensures players are clearly identified as early adopters.
- As a Founder member, players will get access to an exclusive Public Beta Test Realm reserved just for them, even after the 1.0 game launch.
As for the full 1.0 release, it will be a massive expansion of the core experience, introducing a staggering 60+ hours of new content, a new horde mode, powerful new weapons, bosses and enemies, new areas and a completely reimagined class system.
In No Rest for the Wicked, players take on the role of a “Cerim,” a member of a holy order imbued with mysterious powers, tasked with destroying the Pestilence, an ancient plague that has begun to consume the island Isola Sacra, itself already the site of great political upheaval and death.