Foruten PC-versjonen av Everybody's Gone to the Rapture jobber utvikler The Chinese Room nå med et helt nytt prosjekt kalt Total Dark. Det kommer frem av et intervju hos Rock Paper Shotgun med studiosjef Dan Pinchbeck.
Det er snakk om et rollespill sett fra godt gammeldags isometrisk perspektiv (tenk Diablo), som er inspirert av pen-og-papir-klassikere som Traveller, Paranoia og Twilight 2000:
- It's a much more traditional game, an isometric adventure with a free-floating camera and lots of mechanics, kommenterer Pinchbeck.
- It will make some people happy while other people are going to wonder if we have the right experience to make that sort of game. But we absolutely do. Most people know us because of Dear Esther and now Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, it's easy to assume that's the kind of game we will always make and have always made. What they may not realize is that we were developing mods alongside Dear Esther.
De store detaljene om Total Dark vil ikke Pinchbeck røpe, men det skal bli et spill med en lysere tone sammenlignet med tidligere utgivelser:
- One thing I can say is that it has a lighter tone. We've made three very heavy games now and it's time for something lighter. It's no less weird but it's not quite as bleak, avslutter Pinchbeck.
En spillbar prototype av Total Dark skal etter planen dukke opp allerede i slutten av april.