PS VR Horror Game “The Inpatient” Has Been Delayed – Will now release next year

The doctor won’t be seeing you… yet

Sony Interactive Entertainment Hong Kong Limited Singapore Branch (SIES) announced today that the release date for The Inpatient has changed. Instead of the game coming out this 22nd November 2017, The Inpatient will release on the 24th January 2018. Sony explained that the reason for the release date shift is to ensure the development teams have the time they need to make these games as enjoyable for players as possible.

Which is corporate talk “for the game isn’t 100% complete yet and the developers need some additional time to iron out the kinks.”

Before we go any further, here’s a brief synopsis about The Inpatient.

Discover who you are before it’s too late in The Inpatient; a PS VR Exclusive set in the Blackwood Sanatorium, over 60 years prior to the 2016 BAFTA award-winning Until Dawn.

With deep immersion that places YOU in the game, you take on the role of an amnesiac inpatient who must find out who you are and why you are in the Sanatorium. With a branching narrative, and different endings; every choice you make can drastically affect the way the game plays out.

As you’ve probably guessed from the synopsis above, The Inpatient is developed by Supermassive Games, the guys behind 2015’s popular horror game Until Dawn, in which this PS VR exclusive is a prequel of. Unlike Until Dawn, The Inpatient is played from a first person perspective as opposed to the original’s third person perspective.

This game employs the same branching story mechanic that made the original game so memorable. Choices and consequences are integral to the gameplay. Your life (and the lives of those around you), are dramatically affected by the decisions you make. To add to the players’ immersion, Supermassive Games employed elements of psychological horror, which included them recording three-dimensional binaural audio (a recording process that utilises two separate microphones to simulate a create 3D stereo sound) supplement the visuals.

So be prepared for a terrifyingly good time.

The Inpatient will release on the 24th January 2018 and will be priced at RM 159 and RM 149 for both the Blu-Ray edition and the digital edition respectively.