Italian team ONE-O-ONE Games announced The Alighieri Circle: Dante’s Descent release datewill be available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series starting September 10th. The game will also be available Also on Nintendo Switch 2 By the end of the year.
Inspired by Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”this original walking simulator mixes a psychological thriller atmosphere with a first-person perspective, taking us into clearly disturbing scenes as part of a brand new plot.
In fact, he is the protagonist of the adventure Gabriel AlighieriA man haunted by a family legacy that he spends his life trying to leave behind: every thirty-three years, the border between our world and Hell disappears, creating a passage that only Gabriel can cross.
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Our goal in the game will be to cross this threshold and Move between two different dimensions To complete the rituals needed to prevent the Hell Horde from invading Earth.
an ambitious project
Announced last January, The Alighieri Circle: Dante’s Descent is an ambitious project; It does not aim to reinterpret Dante’s work It also doesn’t introduce action elements, staying within the confines of a walking simulator.
“We have decided What kind of horror What we wanted to show was: not the fear of death, but the fear of being seen,” explains game director Gaia Righelli. “Because sometimes the scariest thing is someone or something that completely understands you. “
“When most people think of Dante or Dante’s Inferno, they imagine something very specific: monsters, demons, action”, says creative director Emanuele Micianza.
“However, when I read The Divine Comedy, what I saw was not an action story but a man going through an inner journey. This became our central idea: Hell is within us”.
