Denis Dyack – the creator of Eternal Darkness and Legacy Of Kain – has announced his next project, Deadhaus Sonata.
Deadhaus Sonata is a multiplayer action-RPG set in a gothic horror universe. Despite the tone of its universe, though, it doesn’t sound like scaring the player will be the title’s main objective. While the game’s intentions still aren’t entirely clear, we do know that it will utilise Amazon’s Lumberyard technology, will be a free-to-play title, and will be released on PC with future console releases currently listed as a possibility.
What we can tell you for sure is that Dyack isn’t shy about comparing Sonata to his previous games.
“We are combining elements of many of my past games into Deadhaus Sonata,” said Dyack in an interview with IGN. “Deadhaus Sonata is a cooperative multiplayer, free-to-play RPG where you are an unstoppable force of the dead. There are Lovecraftian overtones from Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, the gothic role-playing elements of Blood Omen: Legacy Of Kain, where you are undead, and finally, some the action RPG elements of Too Human.”
It’s actually been quite some time since Dyack has worked on a major new game. In fact, his time away from the industry seems to be partially responsible for the decision to make Sonata a free-to-play title.
“The game industry has gone through significant changes,” said Dyack. “There has been a recent shift from the traditional one time purchase to games as a service model. F2P games have been at the forefront of this shift, offering gamers a constant stream of new content, with microtransactions that allow gamers to support the game monetarily. Apocalypse and Deadhaus Sonata are built around this new gaming market.”
At present, Deadhaus Sonata doesn’t have a release date. In fact, Dyack says it could be quite some time before he confirms the game’s release…