Dead Reset comes permanently to life

• Announcements by Jack Allin
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Time-looping FMV choice-driven horror available now to download on PC, PlayStation and Xbox platforms

Dark Rift Horror made a name for itself with the films Book of Monsters and How to Kill Monsters. There are monsters in their newest "blood-soaked popcorn horror" too, but in the newly released Dead Reset they're putting players at the helm of a choose-your-own-demise experience, along with a little help from the interactive FMV veterans at Wales Interactive. 

Cole Mason is a former surgeon at Westwood Hospital who awakens in terror, far from home. He's been abducted and brought to an "underwater facility" where he's forced to perform a decidedly unnatural operation on a patient to "extract an evolving parasitic horror." Thankfully, the surgery is successful and everyone lives happily ever after. The end. Wait, no, that wouldn't make for much of a game. Instead, of course everything goes horribly wrong, and now it's up to you to make key choices in order to survive. Or not survive. Mostly not, as many "gruesome deaths" await because the real kicker here is that Cole is trapped in a "death-loop" (think Tom Cruise in Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow) in which death is not an end but rather an inevitable and imperative new beginning, with each "terrifying new perspective" leading you one step closer to the truth and potential escape.

As you'd expect from a film production company and the interactive movie gurus at Wales, Dead Reset is a live-action movie that focuses on story and characters over in-depth gameplay. Plus a whole lot of goosebumps and chewed fingernails in a project that promises a "blood-soaked, interactive narrative with cinematic scares, bloody practical effects and high-stakes choice-driven gameplay that put you at the heart of a relentless sci-fi horror movie." Player input is crucial in guiding the protagonist along one of two paths – either Redemption or Damnation. It's up to you whether to "build trust or fracture alliances" with others in the facility, as "each bond forged or broken influences your road to survival." You can track the status of your relationships, though expect those numbers to dwindle as the otherworldly presence begins claiming more and more victims. Either way, there will no easy decisions as "your morality is tested at every turn and your decisions will result in four wildly different endings." 

Dead Reset is available now, with its own choice of where to buy between Steam (Windows and Mac, with verified Steam Deck support) Epic (Windows only), PlayStation 4 and 5 and Xbox One and Series X|S.