- Directive 8020 Creative director Will Doyle explained why the game repayment function will change the way you play
- The team knows that players are invested in characters and leave after a few hours if they regret their decisions
- A traditional mode of survival for purists is also included to allow players to live the game in the classic Dark images path
Supermassive Games explained why his next horror game, Directive 8020will allow players to rewind their decisions and why he decided to offer The anthology of dark imagesThe classic way of playing optional.
In an interview with Techradar Gaming in Gamescom 2025, the creative director Will Doyle spoke more of Directive 8020Turning us turning functionality is a mechanic who will offer players a chance to rewind past decisions.
Doyle said the team is aware that in previous games as Up to dawnPlayers think they have to stick to their decisions, regret them later and prefer to leave the game rather than start again.
“Many players believe validly, but think very passionately, that our games must be like” you must live with your decisions “,” said Doyle. “This is what these games do. So you have to go. But we know very, very well that many players are not like that, that many players are invested in a character, then they get three or four hours in the game, and this character dies, and they go out.
“So, for all these players, we say:” No, you can cancel, you can rewind. “”
However, Supermassive also made sure to add a traditional mode of survival for all experienced players who do not care to live with their terrible choices.
“At the same time, for the other players in the group, we say that if you want, if you want to live and die by your choices, we will play in survival mode.
“We have put the mode for you that you cannot rewind. It simply deletes which makes the possibility of the possibility and you get a success to finish the game in this mode. And then at the end of this mode, when you arrive at the end of the story, you can activate it …”
The developer later explained how Directive 8020 Further on from his predecessors with the abolition of timed choices, explaining that their withdrawal will allow players to think about major decisions, especially if they play with friends.
“In previous games, because we had this multiplayer and shared mode, we did not want you to wait too long, because we wanted to keep the two parts synchronized. We actually see that taking time, as for most choices, is better in the room for you.
“And when you, when you play, many people play our games, either in what we call the film evening mode, where it is a kind of counter, or simply with a person playing in a room, friends sitting to watch. And it really helps, really being able to discuss these great moments …”
Directive 8020 is the fifth entrance to Dark images Series and arrived in 2026 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC.
