"Acclaimed developer The Chinese Room is working on a new original IP. The multiple BAFTA-award winning UK studio is creating "a first-person action adventure for multiple platforms, including next-gen consoles. Its in pre-production and will be made using Unreal Engine 4. The Chinese Room is mostly known for Dear Esther, Amnesia MFP and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
The studio was bought by Sumo Digital in August 2018, and is moving away from making 'walking simulators'. It has high ambitions and wants to build "the Naughty Dog of the UK." In an October 2020 interview they said: "I think what we can say is that, from the word go, we wanted the studio to be obsessively driven by story, investing a lot in character, investing in production values -- audio, music, writing, voice acting." and "Doing what we've historically built our reputation on: being really good at creating worlds that really speak to people. And what we're doing is evolving the studio, to move out of that 'art house niche' I suppose. Looking at more traditional genres, more traditional markets but keeping that fingerprint of what makes us us." The Chinese Room' lastest title is Little Orpheus, which debuted exclusively on Apple Arcade in June 2020.
