When it came out in 2018, A Quiet Place was the surprise horror hit of the year, even earning praise from the likes of Stephen King. Now, with a new film having just released, this seems like a good time for the developers of the upcoming The Road Ahead game to unveil a pretty intense trailer.
If you’re like me and you like your horror to come with a dose of “no you cannot defend yourself, please hide instead,” then this should be right up your alley. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead takes the concept from the films and drops you right into it, facing off against the gangly monsters that hunt by sound alone.
Taking us briefly back to before the events, we get a glimpse of just what’s going to face us. Presumably, we’ll be spending much of our time crouching and cursing ourselves for every sound we unintentionally make. However, it also looks like we’ll be doing a bit of blasting at the creatures. So there’s that.
A quiet place to sit and play
The Road Ahead will be set in the same universe as the Quiet Place film franchise, but will have a new story. You’ll be playing as a “young woman who must endure a treacherous apocalypse in the midst of interpersonal family conflicts, all while coming to terms with her own inner fears.”
It’s being developed by Stormind Games and published by Saber Interactive. The studio who’s working on the project is perhaps not as well known. Some of you more ardent horror fans may know them for the Remothered series: Tormented Fathers (2018) and Broken Porcelain (2020), the latter of which wasn’t as well received as the former.
The Road Ahead is also a singleplayer game, which isn’t noteworthy in itself except for the fact that a lot of horror releases these days like to lean towards multiplayer. Phasmophobia, Dead by Daylight, and even the latest Outlast are going for that team-based ideology. Nothing wrong with that, of course. I just prefer part of the scares to be down to feelings of isolation. I’m hardcore like that.
Anyway, A Quiet Place doesn’t have a full release date yet. However, it looks like it’s aiming for a 2024 launch. It’ll be available on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, according to the trailer above. Whether it will be a rousing success in terms of turning a fairly well known horror franchise into a scary game remains to be seen.
