| The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 | |
| Border: | yes |
| Developer: | Supermassive Games |
| Publisher: | Supermassive Games |
| Director: | Will Doyle |
| Composer: | Jason Graves |
| Series: | The Dark Pictures Anthology |
| Engine: | Unreal Engine 5 |
| Released: | 2025 |
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020 is an upcoming interactive drama and survival horror video game developed and published by Supermassive Games. It is the first game of the second season, and the fifth game overall in The Dark Pictures Anthology. Continuing the series' premise, the game features a cast of five playable protagonists and a multilinear narrative influenced by player choices. Its decision-making scenes can significantly alter the trajectory of the plot and change the relationships between the main characters; some can lead to the permanent death of the protagonists. In Directive 8020, a colony ship called Cassiopeia crash lands on Tau Ceti f, a planet that is 12 light-years from Earth. Lashana Lynch, who plays astronaut and pilot of the Cassiopeia, Brianna Young, is being marketed as the game's leading actress.
Directive 8020 will be released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in 2025.
Directive 8020 is the fifth game in a series of eight planned for The Dark Pictures Anthology. It will be the first game in the anthology's second season. By mid-October 2022, the game was entering production with a lot of data already shot.
The game stars Lashana Lynch as Brianna Young, an astronaut and pilot of a colony ship called Cassiopeia that crash lands on Tau Ceti f, a planet that is 12 light-years away after setting out to look for a new home to save humanity due to Earth being in the process of dying. There was a NASA directive 8020.7G that was about "biological contamination control for outbound and inbound planetary spacecraft. However, the directive expired in June 2022. The game is inspired by Alien, Event Horizon, and John Carpenter's The Thing. Specifically The Thing for the devs have billed Directive 8020 as "The Thing in deep space".[1]
Directive 8020 was first revealed in a post-credits teaser trailer at the end of , which was released on 18 November 2022. However, the trailer leaked online the day before The Devil in Me release, revealing a sci-fi setting. On 31 December 2023, a short video teaser for the game was posted to celebrate New Year's Eve. At Gamescom in August 2024, the game was announced to be releasing for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S in 2025.