Someday You'll Return

Release Date: May 5, 2020

Adventure, FPP, horror, indie games, exploration games, singleplayer

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Someday You'll Return is an adventure horror story designed for PlayStation 4. Players take on the role of the father looking for his missing daughter in the gloomy Czech forest. The action is observed from the protagonist's eyes, and the game consists mainly in exploring the three-dimensional environment, collecting objects and solving riddles.

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Someday You'll Return is a 3D adventure game released on PS4, PC and XONE. The game was developed by CBE Software from Czech, a team responsible for such titles as J.U.L.I.A. or Ghost in the Sheet.

Plot

In Someday You'll Return, available on PS4, PC and XONE, we play as a middle-aged man whose daughter does not return home one evening. Everything seems to indicate that something wrong has happened to her. Our task is, of course, to find her. The action takes place in modern times, mainly in a gloomy forest located in Bohemian Moravia.

The story is kept in a horror atmosphere, although the game doesn not feature monsters jumping on us suddenly. Someday You'll Return relies on psychological horror, offering a grim and sad story that revolves around the fatherhood. It is worth mentioning that the main designer has three daughters and the script was inspired by his own parental fears.

Mechanics

In the Someday You'll Return released for PS4, PC and XONE, we observe the action from the protagonist's eyes and get a lot of freedom of exploration. Thiws is a classic adventure game, so we mainly deal with collecting objects and solving numerous ingenious puzzles.

Someday You'll Return is the team's first title that offers three-dimensional visuals generated by the Unreal Engine 4. This change has affected not only the look of the game, but also the gameplay mechanisms, as it allows for greater exploration and more natural interactions with the environment and objects. Thanks to this, the authors were able to offer challenges and puzzles that were impossible to achieve in their earlier productions.

Last updated on February 25, 2019

Videos and Screens

[1:19] Someday You'll Return Director's Cut trailer

[2:05] Someday You'll Return trailer #1

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