The Vanishing of Ethan Carter PC release date set for September 25

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter PC release date set for September 25
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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, a first-person story-driven mystery game focused on exploration and discovery, will launch for PC on September 25, developer The Astronauts has announced.

A special Pre-Order Edition is available now from Steam and GOG, which includes the following items:

  • Full Original Soundtrack
  • 4x exclusive HD wallpapers 
  • Red Creek Valley digital map 
  • “Making of” PDF album 
  • Digital poster

The game sees players taking control of Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter. Paul travels to the boy’s home of Red Creek Valley and discovers the situation to be far worse than he imagined.

Check out a 13 minute gameplay video with dev commentary below.