In addition, the VR rail-shooter will include aspects of the original’s choice selection and consequence systems, giving players a number of game-play options. In the announcement trailer, which was published at the end of 2022, players are seen riding through a track, armed with guns and lamps, illuminating the darkness that surrounds them. As the player blasts their way over obstacles and creatures in an effort to live, enemies flutter through the darkness on each side, with numerous horrors coming on and off the road. Switchback VR will also include creatures and characters from past The Dark Pictures Anthology titles.
The butterfly effect that Supermassive Games likes to emphasise in each game has been critical to the developer’s success and has built a significant fan following that is raved about each new entry in the continuous series of tales. Although branching out into a rail-shooter may not make sense to some fans, it still enables Supermassive Games to provide the feeling of decision-making with consequences that have been a mainstay of the choice-based survival genre. Despite the fact that VR gaming has grown in popularity, price hikes in rival headsets, as well as the $549.99 price tag for the PSVR 2, have made success in VR gaming much more challenging. Losing out on being a launch title will likely harm the game’s sales, but spending the opportunity to refine and perfect different areas of the game could help the title achieve greater success in the long run.
