Daylight (PC, PS4)

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Originally Posted by IGN

Daylight, a procedurally-generated horror game built on Unreal Engine 4, was previously only announced for PC. Zombie creative studio head Jared Gerritzen has confirmed on Twitter that the game will be published by Atlus on PS4 in the United States.

Daylight is a horror game that uses the power of Unreal Engine 4 to create randomly-generated environments each time you enter a room, making sure you never have the same experience twice. The game follows a woman trapped in a building and trying to find her way out using only her cell phone, finding clues (also randomly-generated) as she goes.

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Like the concept, not enough for a PS4 though.

Stochastic environments are always a red flag for me, but I can see the benefit in the horror genre, since familiarity ruins the mood.

Horror games are maybe the only genre randomly generated makes complete sense.

It can be fun to replay a level of Mario Galaxy and get better at it through familiarity and practice. It just stops being scary when you know a dog jumps through the same window in RE each time you replay it.

April 8

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Originally Posted by Opaque

Horror games are maybe the only genre randomly generated makes complete sense.

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Yep. I'd buy that.

It's interesting to see how many indy games are being ported to PS4 and not Xbox One.

Not sure if that's just due to Microsoft's ID@Xbox program being started later than Sony's or if indy dev's are just saying "fuck Microsoft" and are mainly flocking to Sony. As for this game, there's have been quite a bit of independent first person horror games so as with any other game this will have to really stand out from the pack but being on PS4 should definitely boost it's profile.

It's the self-publishing and lack thereof on the XBO. MS practically goes for Nintendo levels of control over stuff on their systems which, like Nintendo, is biting them in the ass.

33% off preorder on Steam

I'm concerned that there isn't a single review of this on Metacritic, despite releasing tomorrow. Hopefully some reliable ones will appear between now at 1pm tomorrow when the preorder price expires.

It's only $10 on steam, I figured what the hell.

I got my wish.

Eurogamer: 7/10

Given the low cost of entry you mentioned, it sounds worthy.

That's the highest review it got. Lowest is 3/10 I believe.

Is this the first UE4 game to come out? That's kind of sad.

I was going to say Eurobump, but Zombie Studios is in downtown Seattle, I pass by it a lot