THQ Nordic utannonserar skräckspelet Black Mirror

Det beskrivs som ett "gotiskt skräckäventyr" och heter Black Mirror. Studion bakom produktionen heter King Art Games som bland annat gjort The Book of Unwritten Tales. Black Mirror släpps till PC, PS4, Mac och Xbox One. THQ skriver att vi kommer att få njuta av gotiskt läskig atmosfär och spelbarhet och berättande som väver ihop traditionell skräck med galenskap och psykologisk terror i ett klassiskt peka-och-klicka-upplägg.

THQ berättar lite om handlingen:
"David Gordon never knew his estranged father particularly well. Still it comes as a shock when he is summoned to his family's ancestral home in the Scottish highlands, after his father has taken his own life there. David does not know much about his father's final weeks, but the circumstances of his death seem more than peculiar. Settling the heritage is merely an excuse for David to find out more about the castle his father grew up in, meeting the family he never knew and for shedding light on the mysteries surrounding his father's death.

Tormented by nightmares and waking dreams for all his life, he fears that it might be his destiny to follow in his father's footsteps, down a path that leads to madness and death. Is there really a curse that has been haunting his family for generations as his father believed? Or are the mysteries hidden inside the cold walls of Black Mirror house of a far more wordly nature? It is up to David to uncover the horrible truths, buried under generations of silence and fathoms of stone."

Martin Kreuch, Producer THQ Nordic:
"One of the outstanding features of the Black Mirror game series is the unique atmosphere which was essentially created by KING Art in the original trilogy. We have developed a new interpretation that both retains the strengths of the original games and gives us more room to explore fresh possibilities in terms of gameplay so that players can experience the world of Black Mirror in a more direct and free way, and not "just" in classic point-and-click style. Black Mirror is a series that is really close to my heart, and it was fantastic to be immersed in the Gothic horror genre again; the human psyche is a fascinating playground!"

THQ Nordic om spelupplägget:
"Like in the original graphic adventure trilogy, the Gothic Horror genre and its unique atmosphere of madness and psychological distress remains at the heart of Black Mirror. The point-and-click gameplay of the original trilogy served as the basis for the re-imagined gameplay, which focuses on close-up investigation and interaction with nightmarish visions that plague the protagonist of the game David Gordon."