Grave looks to scare you in 2015

Broken Window Studios' new survival-horror game Grave is set to release on PS4 (as well as Xbox One and PC) in 2015. Successfully funded through Kickstarter in April 2014, Grave had been accepted into the ID@Xbox Program and was featured as part of the Microsoft ID@Xbox E3 presentation. Although the Kickstarter fell just short of the PS4 stretch goal, Broken Window Studios continued to look into the option. That appears to have paid off; the studio first announced the PS4 version last month, but only today did they have a featured post on the PlayStation blog.

So what is Grave?

Simply put, it's a procedural, open-world survival-horror game, which fuses modern horror and classic survival-horror gameplay elements.

"It means that Grave will feature a modern psychological horror story, while keeping the classic survival horror gameplay found in games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill when it comes to PS4 in 2015," community manager Aaron Treguboff explained.

As for the plot, after being killed in a home invasion, you are cast into an alternate reality where the world, filled with strange creatures, morphs around you. Your only chance to escape is to find your killer, and your only protection from the danger is light. Of course, I wonder what kind of danger an already-dead person can face.

Explore a dynamic, procedural desert inspired by the early wild west landscape of America as you explore Grave’s unusual narrative. Fusing reality with unreality, locations fluctuate in and out of existence while you play, and nightfall brings strange, threatening creatures that stalk you until dawn. Play Grave how you want to, setting up defensive fortifications to survive the night or arming yourself with offensive weapons to keep creatures at bay. With procedurally populated enemies, items and even worlds, Grave weaves an unpredictable tale that will keep you in its grasp.

Grave features surreal gameplay that challenges your perceptions with dynamically changing worlds, unnatural imagery and fantastical creations. It’s a unique day-night gameplay experience — “fear the night, hope for the day!”

Grave is set to release sometime in 2015 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.