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Insipired by famous horror movies

A Quiet Place is a movie franchise that are critically acclaimed. They’re horror movies that tells a story of people trying survive after an apocalyptic event. I’ve seen the movies—two out of three of them—and I did like them very much. Usually—in my opinion—games tied with movies (and viceversa) are bad or hastily made. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was released on October 17, 2024 and I did played it through. Like I use to ask; is it any good?

Plot

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead tells same kind of story like in the movies; after an apocalyptic event the world is destoryed by weird creatures that came from space and are hunting people down. Actually anything that makes a sound are their target as they cannot see. Alex, who is badly asthmatic, have to survive the harsh world alone after her boyfriend dies—and also she’s pregnant. The plot was OK, the game isn’t that long so there wasn’t anything deep story or character developments, so everything feels kinda lukewarm in the end.

Gameplay, controls, audio and visuals

The gameplay in A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was first and foremost stealth. Player must sneak around and go from place to place, controlling Alex. She has some tools with her such as flashlight, screwdriver and throwables to distract enemies. Easy it is not as there are these creatures lurking in every place, listening any noise so they can hunt that down. I mean ANY noise will trigger them and they first let out little noise letting you know that they onto you and after that if you keep doing any tiny noise they will instakill you. The gameplay was very slow and I literally have never ever played a game where you must do everything as slowly as possible. Opening doors and cabinets have to be done with the utmost slowness and there is no running around either. You must sneak as slowly as possible and do puzzles such like finding keys and other enviromental aspects to open path to progress to next area. Also, there are no weapons in the game (except one little part), little bit reminding me of the Outlast games.

Alex has very bad asthma. I mean VERY bad. Anything can trigger an asthma attack; enemies too near, running, doing other little physical maneuvers or dust in the air. That’s why player must use inhalers, but even that might trigger enemy hearing you using it.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead has turned the crank to the nth degree in stealth, because every tiniest little sound enemies could hear and instakill you. That’s why player must be very careful where they even step because even a trash on the ground can alarm enemies if you step on them.

In the end the gameplay felt kinda finicky, but still everything worked. I didn’t get stuck on any part of the game and the areas aren’t that big where player must sneak through. The game also utilises the microphone on your controller/headphones but I didn’t use it. I did try it out but opted it out because I live in aparment building and there are so many noises that could ruin my gameplay. With all the stealthing and doing puzzles there are also collectibles to be found.

Control-wise the game was OK. My Dual Sense controller is the original that came with the oirignal PS5 so it is over 4 years old and the sticks are kinda busted. So doing those little movements that the game requires was difficult sometimes.

Audio in the game was good and all the sound effects made me jump as I was so focused in the silence of everything. Even the characters did whisper as they spoke.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was visually OK. It looked nice, detailed and all the reflections looked good. But the thing is that the overall graphical quality reminded me of a PS4 game. The characters looked little bit off and some animations were bad. The game offers two visual options: one preferring quality and other performance. I played this on quality mode.

Final verdict

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was OK experience. I played it through in about 6 hours and I believe it was perfect length for a game like this. It was kinda tedious to play with its finicky gameplay, but it was still enjoyable. Sometimes the checkpoints were too far away and I had to do same things over again as I did die a lot in the game. But with all this said, if you enjoy stealth games without shooting or fighting you’ll surely enjoy this.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is availabe on PS5 (reviewed), Xbox Series X|S and Windows.

(Review copy kindly provided by the publisher)

SCORE:

4/5

“A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead has turned the crank to the nth degree in stealth, because every tiniest little sound enemies could hear and instakill you”

RELEASE DATE: October 17, 2024
GENRE: horror
DEVELOPER: Stormind Games
PUBLISHER: Saber Interactive
PLATFORMS: PS5 (reviewed)
Xbox Series X|S
Windows

 

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