THQ Nordic postpones Alone in the Dark again, now releasing in March 2024

THQ Nordic and Pieces Interactive are once again postponing the release of Alone in the Dark by several months. The companies want to avoid overtime during the holidays. The third-person survival horror game will now be released on March 20, 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

The companies say in a blog post that the former release date of January 2024 would cause employees of developer Pieces Interactive to be under too much stress during the holidays. “Both companies want to avoid any crunch during the holidays.” Crunch is a gaming industry term that describes being forced to work overtime under high pressure to complete a game on time; The companies want to prevent this. The game must also meet the ‘expectations of the companies and the community’.

The game was originally supposed to be released in October 2023, but was recently postponed to January 2024. Too many other major games would be released in October. A ‘playable teaser’ has been available since earlier this year.

Alone in the Dark is a horror game and ‘a love letter’ to the first game of the same name from 1992. The game is set in the 1920s and has two main characters, Edward Carnby and Emily Hartwood, played by David Harbor respectively. , known for Stranger Things, and Jodie Comer, who starred in Killing Eve, among others.