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New A Quiet Place survival horror game borrows Alien: Isolation's scariest feature to use your own voice against you

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, a survival horror game based on the popular movie franchise, will feature microphone detection, allowing the game's creatures to hear players' real-life voices, adding a new layer of immersion and terror to the experience.

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The upcoming survival horror game A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will feature microphone detection that allows creatures to hear your real-life voice.

"They're coming for you. Don't make a sound! …literally," reads a tweet from the game's official Twitter feed. "A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead features microphone detection, bringing the creatures' terror right into your own room." The announcement is accompanied by a deeply unsettling video of a man playing the game with a PS5 controller and triggering an ambush with a subtle sigh, suggesting the monsters in the game have the same sensitive hearing that they do in the popular movies the game is based on.

They’re coming for you. Don’t make a sound! … literally 🎙️A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead features microphone detection, bringing the creatures’ terror right into your own room.Pre-order now to get exclusive content at https://t.co/elwcPFnlE9. pic.twitter.com/i023NI4fRqOctober 9, 2024

I absolutely love this, and honestly with a game centered around monsters that rely solely on their hearing to track down prey, it would almost be a disappointment if it didn't feature microphone detection. That said, it's far from the first game to use this mechanic; off the top of my head, Lethal Company, Phasmophobia, and Fears to Fathom all do something similar to great effect.

The cult classic survival horror game Alien: Isolation from 2014 is by far the scariest example, in my opinion. The Xenomorph would still be a colossally scary and intelligent video game antagonist without the ability to hear your voice, but with that additional advantage it just dials the fear up to 11. Thank goodness Alien: Isolation 2 is finally, legitimately on the way. 

If A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead even approaches Alien: Isolation's enemy design and couples that with super-sensitive mic detection, we're in for a tense ride when it launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 17.

In a GamesRadar+ exclusive, A Quiet Place video game narrative designer explains how it bridges the gap between Day One and the original movie.