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Directive 8020’s rewind feature makes play-your-own-survival-horror easier for completionists
Supermassive’s well-regarded interactive survival horror series, the Dark Pictures Anthology, is ready for its second season. Directive 8020 will be its first entry and was available to play in demo form at SGF 2025, even if it was heavily weighted with cutscenes and context-setting preamble.
The demo kicked off with a meeting between Young and Stafford, marking the anniversary of Young’s father's death, who was also a long-time friend of Stafford's – the commander of the space mission that Young is also bound for.
The plot then leaps four years forward, placi [...]
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Switch 2 will add a rewind function to its online N64 games
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