Just finished nu-Alone in the Dark. It's beautiful, but janky. Writing is somewhere slightly more intellectual than Sam Raimi B-movie. It's hard to call it top shelf survival horror because it's not trying to be RE (Either action RE or classic RE), but whatever it is, it's really an enjoyable thrill ride. It respects your intelligence so much that if you don't read the files, you'll have no clue what you did or how you "won" at the end.

All the writing feels like a fever dream. EVERY scene is totally insane but it's charming all the same. Whichever protag you don't choose doesn't see all the voodoo cthulu shit your protag does, so even if you pick the girl you get a bunch of great lines talking around "You haven't seen anything... WEIRD here, right?... no of course not, you're right, you're right." Detective Carnsby is almost TEW2 Sebastian tier in terms of great horror game protagonist.

The thing I was most worried about was the payoff, and I can verify the game pays off the finale really well, including lengthy (And different per character) segments chasing down your own protagonist's past as well.

That said I have to recommend pirating it as Embracer shut down the dev studio sadly.
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@DrRyanSkelton it's also way too expensive for what it is. When I did my little review of it I said it was the worst good game I had ever played lol. It's extremely janky but overall I had a good time and the story was also really good, I thought.

I think that's fair. They went all out on the art design, probably way more effort than was necessary.
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