Immortality Director Sam Barlow Teams Up with Brandon Cronenberg for Sci-Fi Horror Precognition
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Immortality creator Sam Barlow has announced Precognition, a sci-fi horror video-scouring game co-written with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, where players manipulate the future by collecting memories of events that have not happened yet.
Sam Barlow and his studio Half Mermaid are back with a brand new narrative puzzle game. Titled Precognition, the upcoming sci-fi horror project is a collaboration with filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, known for movies like Infinity Pool and Possessor. Scheduled for a spring 2028 release, the game is set to be one of the early titles launched under the new publishing label from Kinetic, the team behind Phasmophobia. According to reporting by Robert Purchese at Eurogamer, the core gameplay builds on the video-scouring mechanics that defined Barlow's previous hits like Her Story and Immortality.
The premise centers on a protagonist named Diana, a former child prodigy who receives an experimental neural implant. While the device is ostensibly designed to repair and augment human memory, test subjects soon discover an unexpected side effect. They begin receiving brief visions of their own future. While other subjects quickly forget these visions, Diana retains them, allowing players to comb through future archives and select specific moments to commit to memory. Doing so triggers a butterfly effect, rewriting the timeline and generating an entirely new set of future visions to explore.
This creates a compelling gameplay loop where players manage an evolving inventory of alternate futures. By deciding which information to lock in and send backward, you actively manipulate the narrative outcome. For a community that loves deep lore hunting, community theories, and untangling complex narrative webs on streaming platforms, this mechanical evolution of the FMV genre offers plenty of potential. We will be watching closely as development continues toward that 2028 window. You can read the original reporting over at Eurogamer.
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Original article: Eurogamer