UPDATE: 06/29/22: PlayStation has now confirmed the Plus games for July will include Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, Man of Medan, and Arcadegeddon. Original story and leak as follows: 3f351y

With The Dark Pictures Anthology game series, developer Supermassive has set out to create a horror anthology within the videogame format, and Man of Medan served as a perfect “season premiere.” Players who experienced Man of Medan had access to a short documentary on the history of horror anthologies, touching on early works, like the short story collections of Edgar Allan Poe, through TV series like The Twilight Zone and Tales From The Crypt. The goal of Supermassive Games, to make a videogame series than can stand alongside these notable book, radio, and television horror anthologies, is ambitious. Like any good pilot episode, Man of Medan offered horror game fans good reason to be excited for the full eight-game “season” of Dark Pictures.

Developer Supermassive has a strong pedigree in cinematic horror. Until Dawn combined the filmic presentation of the best Quantic Dream titles with tight writing, top-tier acting talent, mind-blowing facial capture animation technology, and a genuine love of genre storytelling. All these elements combined to make Until Dawn a surprise hit that put the developer on the map. Followup efforts Hidden Agenda and The Inpatient were less successful, with a frustrating reliance on gimmicks like PlayStation VR and PlayLink undercutting the twisted mysteries at hand.