The Lethal Company developer’s next game is an open world where you can’t see | Gaming

Lethal Company was one of last year’s surprise horror hits. It was a brilliant dystopian scavenging sim in which you searched cellars for bolts while avoiding the attentions of creatures that hate being looked at, or which only move when they’re not being looked at, or which look like your friends, from a distance. The developer’s next game, Welcome To The Dark Place, is more about hearing. It’s an “open-world, auditory text-based adventure” which mostly takes place in pitch blackness.

“You are lost in a nightmare playground of ideas,” explains the Steam page. “This is an expansive, auditory feast of tragedy and terror. You must find a way out.” From the looks of the trailer below, you’ll do that partly by selecting text options in the style of a…