The game seems to be built around these puzzle-type interactions, with specific care taken to always remind me of my own fragility. Later sections include faster enemies, as seen in the trailer, but the bulk of the game will include the aspects of “safe in the light, dangerous in the dark” that underpin its traversal puzzles. My demo was scary, especially thanks to those lurking shadow figures, but we’ll have to wait until the release of the game (projected for later in this year) to see if it holds up for its entire playtime.

As the lights go out, the embers of darkness are stoked in the sleepy town of Dormont. Whispers of disappearances carry through the town as a burgeoning, uneasy and irrational fear begins to spread and darkness comes to be an unwelcome reflection to Those Who Remain.