After all, the branching-narrative games will always have a familiar horror premise at their core, there will always be a recognisable actor in one of the lead roles, there’s bound to be a few QTEs, and you are guaranteed an appearance from the sneering, Crypt Keeper-esque “Curator”. There’s something reassuring about knowing precisely what you’re getting into when you purchase a Dark Pictures instalment. The Devil in Me is being promoted as the Season 1 Finale for The Dark Pictures Anthology. Sure, there have been incremental tweaks here and there (like updates to the camera system or the introduction of new difficulty modes) but if you were to compare The Man of Medan with 2021’s House of Ashes, you’d be hard-pressed to tell which of them came first. The team at Supermassive Games has been adhering to the same basic recipe this whole time and continues to serve up exactly what their fans expect.
Yet the Dark Pictures Anthology has remained pretty much the same throughout this quadrennial period. It’s safe to say that - having lived through so much over these past few years - we’re fundamentally altered beings now. Little did we know that our lives would soon be forever changed by a never-ending string of global catastrophes, devastating economic upheaval, the frightening notion of murder hornets and, yes, Tom Hooper’s movie adaptation of Cats. Meanwhile, Facebook was still called Facebook, you could happily declare yourself to be a Last of Us fan (without inviting a tirade of vitriol from strangers online), Hawaii had yet to be scarred by Ezra Miller’s reign of terror, and we were all blissfully ignorant of Tom Hooper’s movie adaptation of Cats.
In those halcyon days, we were all eagerly awaiting what was sure to be an epic conclusion to Game of Thrones.
Its debut title, The Man of Medan, was announced way back in August 2018 and, upon reflection, that might as well be a totally different world to the one we currently inhabit. Harrison Abbott previews The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me…īelieve it or not, The Dark Pictures Anthology has been around for almost half a decade.
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