We've got a good selection of horror games on Switch, but one title that never made its way over was Bethesda's The Evil Within, or its sequel. However, JanduSoft might be providing the next best thing, confirming through a new trailer that Evil Inside launches on Nintendo's console on March 25th.
Inspired by Konami's PT (and, by extension, the cancelled Silent Hills), we'll be playing as Mark, a teenager looking after his younger brother after their mother, Rose, was suddenly murdered by their father. Plagued by visions and fears, Mark is searching for fragments of the "Spiritual Board", using these to contact Rose and discover the truth behind her death.
Detailing this further, JanduSoft has released an outline via the eShop:
The whole argument of Evil Inside happens in a mysterious house… or almost everything. Explore Mark’s house that is constantly changing. Slowly the atmosphere will change. Nothing is what it seems. Beat your fears. Face terror and truth. But above all… enjoy a real horror experience.
Everything has been very strange. Why did dad do that? He is now in prison. He was a good person… Something is not right. I need to know the truth… but only she knows. Or she knew it. I need to talk to her, I need to discover the truth. What happened?
You sit on the couch. The situation overcomes you. In a very short time your life has taken a 180º turn. Almost without realizing it, you live alone. In charge of your little brother. You go to the kitchen, a creak. The light blinks suddenly. You are alone, or so you think. To all this, it continues to haunt you not to know the truth, there is nothing clear in this whole story. Something does not add up…
Your biggest fears come true. Loneliness and darkness invade you. What’s going on? That melody…
Currently, Evil Inside is only listed on the North American eShop, costing $12.99 / $17.84 CAD. Whether it's getting a European launch is unclear, though if you're keen to jump in, setting up eShop accounts for other regions is thankfully rather easy.
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[source nintendoeverything.com]
Comments 14
Hope this does come to the U.K, it looks pretty cool.
I was considering getting this game on Steam, but if it comes to the Switch, I may rethink that.
It doesn't try to hide what it was inspired by, its got the look but that was only a small part of what made P.T. so great. Its something that I'm interested in though so hopefully it comes out in Europe
It's listed on the UK PS5 Store, so I'm sure the Switch version will be on the EU eShop.
It's funny how people still reference "P.T." when it comes to these kinda games even though it was just a demo which was taken down a couple month after it was released. It shows how much impact it had and what it accomplished in such a short amount of time. It still saddens me that this game never came to be. What an awesome experience the demo was.
I'm always interested when such games are announced, put off by the price, and eventually end up not buying them even on sale because most of the ones I did get were VERY disappointing in the end. Poorly optimised for Switch, bad controls (often when the games have roots in VR), short, more jump scares than atmosphere (which also doesn't come across when the games are full of bugs for example)...
And the eternal paradox: it's intense when you're in fear of "something", whatever that may be, but stress is exhausting and not what I play games for. And once you die or stop playing the game, you find relief... But without this "fear" the entire genre doesn't work.
So it needs a good story, mystery, and good puzzles for example. Or good combat, but combat makes whatever you fear less threatening. Unless it doesn't work on every enemy, but then it often ends up with those hectic chase scenes that make you die unless you already know what's coming, which ALSO breaks the tension. And when your character dies in such a scene due to technical errors or minor control issues, all excitement for the game goes right out of the window, especially if it has long loading times (that even almost made me give up on Little Nightmares, the first game, while it was and still is a very good horror adventure - I'd even say among the best - when you can look past those issues).
Alright!, after little nightmare 2, this is then. Thanks for the info by the way.
Evil Within, that you? Oh, Evil Inside. My bad.
The best thing is Eternal Darkness, so how can this be the next best thing?
Looks interesting. Might check it out if it runs well on switch.
Yeah seriously, why do we not have
The Evil Within on switch. The first game was even on Xbox 360 and PS3.
This looks a bit garbo.
Looks a little generic. The PT demo was fine but I don't really get the cult status it has gained over the years. Silent Hill 2 will always be my favorite horror game.
Wow. Wonder if the plot's going to be about a guy who you later find out killed his wife. Maybe next year's PT-Inspired game will switch things up a bit and be about a guy who killed his wife.
It's funny that people get hooked on troping the hell out of PT's tricks when knowing Kojima, Silent Hills probably would have been a completely separate story with unique setpieces, just set in the same universe as the demo.
I want more games inspired by the atmosphere of PT without directly trying to catch the same lightning in a bottle that will never be matched again.
These P.T inspired games are starting to get a bit long in the tooth now although I did enjoy infliction directors cut quite a lot.
One of the most underrated horror games on switch is welcome to hanwell, It would be cool to see more horror games take notes from that game
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