Supermassive Games Launches Directive 8020 on PC, PS5, Xbox

Supermassive Games launched Directive 8020 on Tuesday, making the sci-fi horror title available on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. The game marks the studio's first space-set entry in its Dark Pictures Anthology series, drawing players into a tense survival narrative aboard the colony ship Cassiopeia.

Set against a backdrop of a dying Earth desperate for a new home, the story follows the ship's crew as they scout Tau Ceti f, a potentially habitable planet 12 light years away. A meteorite strike brings an aggressive alien organism aboard, capable of shapeshifting to mimic crew members' appearances, behaviors, and personalities. Players switch between five playable characters, navigating paranoia, distrust, and life-or-death decisions that could jeopardize the mission and humanity's future. The crew awakens from hypersleep disoriented, facing hunts, stealth evasion, and moral dilemmas about sacrificing individuals to save the greater whole.

Gameplay builds on Supermassive's choice-driven formula from titles like Until Dawn and The Quarry, with branching narratives leading to multiple endings across eight chapters, playable in six to eight hours. New features...