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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Directive 8020 Release Date, Gameplay, Trailer
The post Directive 8020 Release Date, Gameplay, Trailer appeared first on ClutchPoints. The Directive 8020 Release Date arrives soon, and fans can try out the next entry in the Dark Pictures series soon. Supermassive Games, the creators of Until Dawn, have returned once again to give fans of another spine-chilling horror game. Directive 8020 won't take place on Terra Firma, but the series' core gameplay mechanics will keep it true to the franchises' roots. But when exactly can gamers get their hands on it? The Directive 8020 Release Date is Thursday, October 2nd 2025. The game will be available on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Supermassive Games returns as developer and publisher. Directive 8020 Gameplay Directive 8020 is an interactive horror game that can be played solo or with friends. Like previous Dark Pictures Games, the player (or players) control five playable characters throughout an interactive, narrative-driven story. Throughout the story, you'll make decisions that impact several things, like: Potential Endings Relationships with other characters Whether or not your character will survive & More! Therefore, the game encourages replay-ability, so you can try it out to see multiple outcomes. Whether you want to see certain characters be friends or enemies, or if you want to just see everybody die, Directive 8020 lets you control their destinies. To progress through the game, players need to navigate through areas, collect and use items, and correctly perform QTEs. And mixed in with all these elements comes character dialogue, which you can choose throughout the game. While each character has their own pre-determined personality, your choices impact how they become later on. But Directive 8020 also adds some new gameplay mechanics that will really shake the experience for players. Firstly, the developers added a new Rewind system. This enables you to go back to important choices and change your decision, which will impact the outcome of certain events. So if you really want to see the Perfect, or 'Happy' ending, you may need to use this feature. But the developers also plan on adding a feature that disables rewind. Therefore, you can play the game and experience something similar to the previous entries. Perhaps the biggest change in terms of gameplay includes the new real time threats. In previous Supermassive Games, you could only die if you: Failed certain QTEs Made specific decisions that led to your death or Failed to complete something in a certain amount of time But now, it appears that the enemies of Directive 8020's can kill you even as you actively control your character. Speaking of the enemy, Directive 8020's foes include alien organisms 'capable of mimicking its prey'. This can create a lot of interesting situations in which player relationships make a big impact on the story. Each character comes with a wrist-strap that can perform multiple things. From basic mechanics like a flashlight, this tool can also help you identify any mimicking aliens. Additionally, it contains a weapon, but you'll still need to use stealth tactics to survive. Overall, this tool will prove detrimental in your efforts to survive. That includes some of the main gameplay elements of Directive 8020, but what about its story? Directive 8020 Story Directive 8020 is the first new entry in the Dark Pictures Season 2. In Directive 8020, you control five playable characters aboard the colony ship Cassiopeia. Unfortunately, when the ship crash-lands on Tau Ceti f. When an alien life form starts mimicking passengers on board, trust-levels reach an all-time low. The five playable characters include: Brianna Young – Pilot of the Cassiopeia colony ship Nolan Stafford – Commander of the Cassiopeia Lauren Eisele – Cassiopeia's senior mission officer Josef Cernan – Ship's technical engineer Samantha Cooper – Medical Specialist aboard the Cassiopeia Young is the game's leading character, and the one piloting the Cassiopeia. But each character plays an important role that will be necessary in reaching the perfect ending. In solo play, you control all characters throughout the campaign. But you can also play co-op online or locally, allowing you to enjoy the game with friends. Regardless, each character can die throughout the campaign, making every choice and decision matter. Furthermore, players can expect to see a Director's Cut post-launch, which adds more cutscenes and sequences to the game. Overall, these additions add even more replay value to the game. Overall, that includes everything you need to know about the Directive 8020 Release Date, Gameplay, Trailer, and more. We look forward to playing the next epic adventure in Supermassive's Dark Picture series. We'll see you aboard the Cassiopeia this October! Lastly, for more gaming news, visit ClutchPoints. Furthermore, subscribe to our gaming newsletter for more weekly info. Related: How to unlock Mirror Mode in Mario Kart World Related: Thunder vs. Pacers Game 4 Results According to NBA 2K25
Digital Trends
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
Directive 8020 is straight up a playable version of The Thing
It's no secret that developer Supermassive Games is inspired by horror movies. The studio's brand of choose your own adventure horror games has always pulled ideas from classic slashers and adapted those ideas into original stories. With Directive 8020, the latest entry in its long running Dark Pictures anthology, that inspiration is clearer than ever. I played a quick slice of it at Summer Game Fest and I'm happy to report that Supermassive has basically just made John Carpenter's The Thing, but playable. That isn't apparent right away when my demo begins. I start in the middle of a dramatic conversation between two of its main characters who set up the sci-fi world and express some concerns with an operation to Mars. For the purposes of the demo, it's basically just a way for Supermassive to show off how strong its cinematic chops have gotten. The character models approach hyperrealism, and the acting doesn't feel far off from a Hollywood movie. After that quick introduction, things rapidly heat up. One of those characters winds up facing down his doppelganger, leading to a thrilling little fight scene. While those bits have some minimal interaction, I get to do a lot more when a doppelganger suddenly mutates into an enormous flesh monster pulled straight from a John Carpenter movie. I'm tossed into a straight-up stealth horror sequence where I need to get past a patrolling monster and sneak my way to a ladder. I can use a scanner to track its position through walls. Though it's a bit of a standard stealth hiding sequence, it's a remarkably tense one. I'm legitimately terrified of getting caught, likely because the monster that's chasing me is just so grotesque with its human face hanging from its hulking body. I almost get to the end undetected, but it spots me at the last moment. I make a run for the ladder and grab it with a second to spare. It's another true movie moment. Recommended Videos Even with all these tells, I don't fully pick up on how much Supermassive is making The Thing in space until the next cutscene. The ship's crew has a potential doppelganger contained in a cell and must decide if he's friend or foe. I'm given the choice to either shoot him dead or spare him. Naturally, I shoot the sucker dead. That's where I learn about the biggest way that Directive 8020 is evolving the Dark Pictures formula. As soon as I make my choice, a pop up appears on screen that asks me if I want to rewind. I'm no longer stuck with my bad decision. When it happens, a developer from the Supermassive team come over to me and explains exactly how that works. By opening a menu, players can now see exactly how a chapter's story tree will branch. It doesn't show what the choices are, but it shows how many permeations there are from the jump. In my case, there were three ways my encounter could have gone. It turned out that the guy I shot was legitimately a human (whoops), but certain story choices earlier on could lead to a mimic being there instead — hence three possible outcomes. And don't worry: If you're a purist, there will be a mode that disallows you from using rewinds, so you have to live with your bad choices. All of this seems like a smart evolution for a formula that Supermassive Games has nearly perfected at this point. The few choices I had to make felt impactful and I like having a little more classic horror gameplay in that bit of stealth. More than anything, I just like running away from gross body horror monsters that would make David Cronenberg proud. I'm ready to be grossed out. Directive 8020 launches on October 2 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.
Engadget
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Engadget
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, placing us aboard the spaceship Cassiopeia. Oh and it's somehow overrun by some fungal, sentient alien goop. Worse still, but also a horror staple, the goop is coalescing into almost-perfect copies of the human crew. Trust no-one! To view this content, you'll need to update your privacy settings. Please click here and view the "Content and social-media partners" setting to do so. When the hydroponics bay is overrun by an alien substance, two crewmates Cernan and Stafford, have to fight their ET doppelgangers. Finally, I got to play (but only for a few minutes), moving stealthily around the lower deck of the hydroponics bay while my alien copy (now fungal and angry) tried to hunt me down. Fortunately, you're equipped with a scanner to mark where the aliens were last seen, and after triggering a nearby hydroponic pod to distract, I made my way up the ladder. This was one of three ways to play this section, handily introducing a new mechanic for The Dark Pictures' second run: Turning Points. Using this feature, you can rewind to these decision trees, allowing you to replay sections and explore different options or alter the outcome. This is an interesting change for the series. In previous games, while you could rewind to replay entire sections in macro, there was no way to change a single micro decision. I discussed this with my colleague Jessica Conditt, and we're both the kind of players to continue with our terrible decisions in games like Directive 8020 , the Dark Pictures Anthology, Until Dawn and the rest. Fortunately, then, Directive 8020 will include a hard-boiled Survivor Mode – with no rewinds. The demo shifted back to a more narrative focus and cutscenes, briefly interrupted by the possibility that one crew member (specifically, the CEO funding the whole operation) might be an alien. Did I pull the trigger? Nope. I'll have to wait til the October launch to know if that was the right decision to make. Directive 8020 launches on 2nd October, 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.
