Without Alone in the Dark, quite simply, there is no survival horror as we know it today. Way back in 1992, when the original game led us down the haunted hallways of the Derceto mansion for the first time, the impact that ill-fated journey would have on the landscape of video games could not have been fully understood.
Fast forward 32 years, however, and everything from Resident Evil to Silent Hill, System Shock and The Last of Us owes at least something to Edward Carnby and Emily Hartwood's maiden voyage. Those survival horror classics have all been remade for modern audiences in their own right in recent years, and so it seems fitting that the original Alone in the Dark has been given the same treatment in 2024.
