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The first in-game images of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter have been released by developer The Astronauts, a small eight-person studio founded in 2012 by the former-owners and leads of People Can Fly, creators of Painkiller and Bulletstorm.
At only seven months into development things are already looking pretty good, with the four screens taken from the first few minutes of the actual game. The Astronauts says the game features no cut scenes, so all the images are taken from actual gameplay.
In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you play as Paul Prospero, an occult detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter and realizes that the boy is in danger. When Paul arrives in Ethan’s home of Red Creek Valley, he realises things are even worse than he imagined. Ethan has vanished in the wake of a brutal murder, which Paul comes to see might not be the only murder to investigate.
Using both regular and supernatural detective skills, Paul must figure out what happened to the missing boy.
At the moment The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is in development for PC, but the team hopes to bring it to next-gen platforms too.
While there’s no release date, the game should be complete in months, not years, the studio has said.
Source: Press release
