Supermassive Games is currently busy on the third installment of The Dark Pictures Anthology, but current job listings imply this isn’t the only project they have in development at the moment. Several listings, as spotted by Op Attack, talk about a “new, as yet unannounced project,” one that involves real-time combat, exploration and puzzles.
Their latest project is apparently so secret they had to be “a little vague” with some of the job advertisements. According to a listing for a Lead Level Designer, the game is set in “a unique world” filled with “amazing” encounters, “compelling moment-to-moment exploration, exciting and rewarding combat scenarios, entrancing environment puzzles and progression blockers, and powerful cinematic storytelling.” These aspects of the game will “scale and evolve in complexity and challenge” as the game progresses. Combat will be in real-time, with enemy behavior and character actions responding to player decisions and actions. Other job listings specifically mention work on The Dark Pictures Anthology, their “latest branching narrative games,” and AAA horror titles. The team is currently working on The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, the third of eight planned installments in the anthology that aims for “Hollywood production values in real time.” This game will feature an unstoppable threat, a “nest of ancient and unearthly cr...