Key Takeaways
- A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will include a microphone detection feature that picks up any sounds players make in real life.
- The alien creatures in the game are hypersensitive to sound, meaning that players will need to stay completely silent if they want to survive.
- A third mainline film in the series is expected to be released in 2025.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will have a ‘Microphone Detection Feature,’ allowing the game’s terrifying creatures to hear any sound players make in real life. The horror film franchise will soon make its way into the world of video games, with A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead scheduled to launch for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on October 17, 2024.
Developed by Stormind Games and published by Saber Interactive, the company behind World War Z and Evil Dead: The Game, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a first-person survival horror title set in the world of the popular movie series. Players will step into the shoes of an entirely new protagonist, Alex Taylor, as they attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by hostile alien creatures. As seen in the films, these monsters are blind but have hypersensitive hearing, meaning that players will need to focus on staying silent as they stealthily make their way across the map. The developers of the title recently revealed another feature that may raise the difficulty for more anxious players.
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According to the game’s developer, one of the more terrifying A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead features is microphone noise detection, allowing monsters to hear any sounds players make in real life. In a new live-action trailer, a man is seen playing the title as the lights in his home flicker, and a creature is seen crawling past his open window. As he struggles to stay quiet, a sign in the game gives a useful piece of advice: “Don’t scream, not even in the safe room.” Many fans in the comments seem to be excited about the optional feature, with some wondering how many popular content creators will be able to stay silent during their playthroughs.
Monsters in a Quiet Place: The Road Ahead Will Be Able to Hear Sounds Players Make in Real Life
Players are wondering what else the horror title could have in store, with every cough or sneeze now promising to put them in mortal peril in Stormind’s upcoming title. In August, more details about the game’s unique mechanics were revealed, with one in particular promising to make Alex’s journey more difficult. The main character in A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is asthmatic, meaning that she must regularly use an inhaler throughout her harrowing adventure, potentially alerting nearby monsters to the player’s location.
The first film in the highly acclaimed A Quiet Place series was released in 2018, with a sequel appearing in 2020. Following the release of the prequel film A Quiet Place: Day One in June, the franchise has seen a surge in popularity, as more information about The Road Ahead has fed fan frenzy along with the news of a third mainline film coming in 2025. Fans of A Quiet Place aren’t likely to miss this upcoming release, though how many can withstand the terror is yet to be seen.