It’s hard to believe that the last mainline entry for The Dark Pictures Anthology was in 2022 with The Devil in Me. Nevertheless, Directive 8020, the newest title and the beginning of a shift away from the seasonal format, is now available. Compared to previous titles, it’s a sci-fi horror focusing on the crew of the Cassiopeia.
As a colony ship, they crash on Tau Ceti f during a survey operation. As if things couldn’t get any worse, a mysterious alien life-form pursues the crew. You would think its ability to tear them limb from limb is bad enough, but it can also shapeshift and assume their appearances, throwing off the rest and sowing distrust.
Your decisions on who to trust could end up deciding the fate of the remaining colonists on board. Of course, failure states are far less binary this time, determined instead by bonds between the crew. And if things happen to go very wrong, you can use the new Turning Points system to revisit previous important decisions and choose another path.
Directive 8020 is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out our feature for everything you should know about it, including how its gameplay differs from Supermassive’s traditional narrative titles.