New A Quiet Place survival horror game borrows Alien: Isolation's scariest feature to use your own voice against you
Oct. 9, 2024A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead’s creatures can hear you through your microphone
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The upcoming survival horror game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will feature microphone detection that allows creatures to hear your real-life voice.
“They’re coming for you. Don’t make a sound! …literally,” reads a tweet from the game’s official Twitter feed. “A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead features microphone detection, bringing the creatures' terror right into your own room.” The announcement is accompanied by a deeply unsettling video of a man playing the game with a PS5 controller and triggering an ambush with a subtle sigh, suggesting the monsters in the game have the same sensitive hearing that they do in the popular movies the game is based on.
I absolutely love this, and honestly with a game centered around monsters that rely solely on their hearing to track down prey, it would almost be a disappointment if it didn’t feature microphone detection. That said, it’s far from the first game to use this mechanic; off the top of my head, Lethal Company, Phasmophobia, and Fears to Fathom all do something similar to great effect.
If A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead even approaches Alien: Isolation’s enemy design and couples that with super-sensitive mic detection, we’re in for a tense ride when it launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 17.
In a GamesRadar+ exclusive,A Quiet Place video game narrative designer explains how it bridges the gap between Day One and the original movie.
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After scoring a degree in English from ASU, I worked as a copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. Now, as GamesRadar’s west coast Staff Writer, I’m responsible for managing the site’s western regional executive branch, AKA my apartment, and writing about whatever horror game I’m too afraid to finish.
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