The Lost Wild – a new dinosaur survival horror game – has just been announced at Sony’s State of Play.
Coming in 2027, this upcoming game from Great Ape Games places you in the shoes of Saskia as she attempts to uncover the mystery at the heart of an island populated by dinosaurs. This game very much appears to veer away from the action-focused horror approach, instead having you on the backfoot against dangerous predators.
In an official PlayStation blog post on the reveal, game director Gary Napper provides ample insight into the upcoming release.
He wrote the following on the team’s philosophy behind creating The Lost Wild: “From the outset, our goal has been to create a world where dinosaurs are not framed as monsters, but as believable animals. They exist within the world with their own instincts, behaviors, and drives. This shift in perspective fundamentally changes the player’s role. You are not the dominant force, the hero or the conqueror, you are the outsider, vulnerable and exposed, trying to navigate a food chain where you no longer sit at the top.”
He also highlighted his past working on Alien: Isolation, pointing to how learnings and experience from that game has bled into this new title. “My experience working on Alien: Isolation has inevitably shaped how I approach horror design and is definitely a lens I view this game’s design through,” Napper wrote. “One of the key lessons from that project was the importance of restraint of when to show creatures, allowing space for the player’s imagination to do the work and to let the world and systems breathe.”
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