Alone in the Dark (2024)
PS5

Alone in the Dark (2024)

(ESRB - Standard)

Mar 20, 2024
  • Puzzle
  • Adventure
Publishers:
  • THQ Nordic
Developers:
  • Pieces Interactive
Offline play
Yes
(*) Download required
Yes*
(*) Download required: Significant pieces of content are missing from this physical release or has major issues (more details bellow)
(*) Disclamer: PS5 consoles with detachable disc drive: PS5 Slim (CFI-20xx models) and PS5 Pro (CFI-70xx models), require an internet connection to activate the disc drive at the setup.
Comments:

* Played in Performance mode. Runs at 60 FPS. Frame stuttering observed. Framerate stays below 60 in certain areas. Some sequences have severe frame rate drops that last the entire event.

* Many visual bugs occur. This includes texture pop-in/loading, missing floor textures, floating objects, objects out of place such as water, model stretching and tutorial boxes with no text.

* After returning from an area to the main building the shotgun was observed in its spot on the wall again after it was already obtained. The button prompt to pick it up appears but does not do anything. Clicking this causes other prompts such as opening doors to not display or work. The melee attack also no longer worked. Reloading a save fixes the issue.

* The door to the Drawing Room could be walked through. No prompt to open it pops up.

* After loading a save the characters shotgun and melee weapon were observed laying on the ground. Items were still in characters inventory.

* Picking up the Ashes of Indigo collectible requires the character to walk on top of an object they normally aren’t supposed to. After getting the collectible the character got stuck on the object. Repeatedly dodging and moving around allowed the character to get free.

* After a specific cutscene the subtitles on one character would repeatedly appear on screen, sometimes up to 10 lines at once, until after the next cutscene.

* When you are exploring Gray’s apartment there is a lot of character model jittering and jumping into place when entering a cutscene.

* Game crashed during a cutscene after a boss fight. This occurred 3 times. Upon reloading the auto save the first time it placed the character at the boss fight area without the boss being present. Loading a previous save game was required.

* During the second attempt of the boss it became invincible and could not be damaged. The framerate was extremely sluggish the entire time. There was also missing audio during the fight and delayed audio during the cutscene after. Loading a save game was required. After loading the save the game crashed.

* During the final boss the floor the character was standing on was completely broken but the character remained in air running around on nothing. Damaging the boss enough made the character drop to the floor like normal.

* Some collectibles could not be located/obtained using a guide and therefore the trophy tied to it cannot be obtained.

* Most trophies earned unlocked but some seem to be bugged and will not unlock properly.

Content Completed:

* Edward Carnby campaign completed.

* Majority of collectibles obtained.

Additional Notes:

* Was unable to activate the secret ending. Currently it is known to be glitched for both characters and be unobtainable (Mid-March 2024).

* Numerous other issues with glitched content have been reported around the web (as of Mid-March 2024).

* Version 1.000.000 on disc.

* Disc ID: PPSA-08240

* Spine ID: 2108845

* Number of players: 1

* Audio language supported: English, French, German, Japanese

* Subtitle language supported: Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese

* Accessibility options: N/A

* Quality/Performance option: Yes

Tested by DoesItPlay on Base PS5