Total Dark Summary

The Chinese Room’s next game is an RPG called Total Dark

The Chinese Room is primarily known for highly atmospheric first-person exploration games like Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. If you’re a jerk, you might call them walking simulator specialists. Even their take on horror, Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs was focused more on atmosphere than traditional game mechanics. So it’s with some surprise that we’ve learned they’re now working on an RPG heavily inspired by pen-and-paper gaming.