The Inpatient
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| Developer(s) | Supermassive Games |
| Publisher(s) | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| Director(s) | Nik Bowen |
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| Engine | Unreal Engine 4 |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 4 |
| Genre(s) | Survival horror |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Inpatient is an upcoming psychological horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4 and its virtual reality headset PlayStation VR.
Gameplay
The Inpatient is a survival horror game played from a first-person perspective. The player controls a patient—whose gender is subject to choice—suffering from amnesia within the Blackwood Sanatorium, and intent on reclaiming their memories. The player character's entire body is visible, should the player gaze down with the PlayStation VR headset. Non-player characters are caused to react via voice recognition. The outcome of the story is entirely consequent upon the decisions that are made.[1][2]
Development
The developer of The Inpatient is Supermassive Games,[3] who uses the Unreal Engine 4 in its creation.[4] The game acts as a prequel to 2015's Until Dawn, set inside the Blackwood Sanatorium sixty years prior to the events of the original. Nik Bowen, Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden returned as director and writers, respectively. In order to subconsciously draw players into the story, Supermassive Games employed elements of psychological horror, which included them recording three-dimensional binaural audio to supplement the visuals.[2]
Release
It was announced with a teaser trailer at E3 2017, set to be released as a PlayStation 4 exclusive with support for PlayStation VR.[5]
References
- ↑ Romano, Sal (12 June 2017). "Sony and Supermassive Games announce The Inpatient for PlayStation VR". Gematsu.
- 1 2 Bowen, Nik (12 June 2017). "The Inpatient Announced for PS VR, Set 60 Years Before Until Dawn". PlayStation Blog. Sony Interactive Entertainment.
- ↑ Carter, Chris (12 June 2017). "Until Dawn developer is working on the unsettling, VR 'Inpatient'". Destructoid. ModernMethod.
- ↑ Kayser, Daniel (23 June 2017). "Unreal Engine Developers Were Everywhere at E3 2017". Unreal Engine.
- ↑ Hardawar, Devindra (13 June 2017). "'The Inpatient' takes you into a mental asylum on PlayStation VR". Engadget. AOL.