The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me has my favorite premise yet

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Supermassive Games lifted the lid on The Devil in Me, the season one finale of The Dark Pictures Anthology. It’s another standalone cinematic horror adventure game with tough choices to make, and with an intriguing trap-laying serial killer setup, it’s the most promising one yet. In a preview presentation, game director Tom Heaton broke it all down.

The game was largely inspired by H.H. Holmes and the World’s Fair Hotel, better known as the Murder Castle. It’s also drawing from cinema, including the Saw movies, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Psycho, Halloween, and Friday the 13th — look out for “hat tips.”

“We’ve tried to capture that sense of claustrophobia and quiet oppression, that sense of a malevolent building, of an unknown threat around every corner,” according to Heaton.

The story involves a TV production company, Lonnit Entertainment, and its series “Architects of Murder.” The finale is going to be about H.H. Holmes, and with a lot riding on the episode, the team follows a tip about a mysterious collector’s recently inherited estate, which is said to feature accurate reproductions of the Murder Castle’s rooms.

Of course, this is a horror story — the film crew is asked to hand over their phones before entering the “hotel,” and it’s located (where else?) on a remote island. Here we go again.

The game’s core cast is headlined by Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). There’s presenter Kate Wilder, cameraman and ex-boyfriend Mark Nestor, chief grip Jamie Teirgan, documentary director Charlie Lonnit, and unfortunate new intern Erin Keenan. Stranded, they’re up against a “murderous genius who considers killing to be a work of art.”

One of the do-or-die choices presented in the preview video was straight-up