The Fading of Nicole Wilson starts coming into focus for PC and consoles

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First-person ghost-hunting adventure unveiled by the creator of The Suicide of Rachel Foster

A title like The Suicide of Rachel Foster sounds so... FINAL, so for their next project, Italian developer One-O-One Games is scaling the wording back to a slightly less intimidating The Fading of Nicole Wilson, while promising to keep much of the same premise intact.

A teenager named Brit is feeling "stuck in her backwater hometown" and hopes that taking on a job hunting ghosts in the deserted, rundown Timberline Hotel will help make her famous. What she wasn't counting on was doing it by herself, but when her boss Emily is "suddenly hospitalized, she is left alone to investigate." Unfortunately for Brit, what begins as a "routine paranormal inquiry quickly spirals into something far more sinister" when she arrives to discover that "both the living and the dead are hiding dark secrets behind its abandoned walls." Now, armed only with her camera and specialized ghost-hunting equipment, Brit must "navigate the hotel’s eerie halls, uncover its hidden past, and confront a chilling truth no one has ever told before," all while dealing with "more dangerous forces at play than any supernatural entity."  

As with the developer's first (unrelated) game, this is a free-roaming, first-person 3D psychological mystery that sends players deep into the "shadowy corridors" of a decrepit old remote hotel, this one set in scenic Lewis & Clark County, Montana. And like The Suicide of Rachel Foster, this game promises a mature, emotional story to uncover,  filled with "flawed, relatable characters" and exploring themes such as "authenticity, sacrifice, and the cost of fitting in." But while its predecessor dealt more with figurative ghosts than literal, The Fading of Nicole Wilson promises a more "story-driven folk-horror" experience that sees players actively trying to capture evidence of spectral presences on-site. In the process of investigating and piecing together a "web of unsettling clues," there will also be some puzzles to solve along the way. 

While no firm target release date has yet been announced, The Fading of Nicole Wilson is due to launch sometime later this year on Steam for Windows PC, along with console versions for PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch platforms.

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