Game Review · Purchased September 5, 2026 · $13.19 CAD via PSN
The Setup
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead has been sitting on my wishlist since it launched a couple years back, and a PSN sale in September finally got the price low enough to pull the trigger. Developed by Stormind Games, it’s a third-person survival horror game built directly around the film franchise’s whole gimmick: stay quiet, or the things hunting by sound will find you.
Living With It
The sound-based stealth mechanic is genuinely well realized as a core system. Every action, from walking to opening a door to knocking over a can, generates a visible sound radius, and learning to move through environments while consciously managing your own noise output creates a very different kind of tension than most horror games bother with. There’s a real discipline to it: rushing through a section almost always gets you caught, and the game rewards a slow, deliberate pace in a way that fits the film’s whole ethos perfectly.
Where it wears thin is repetition. Once you understand the sound mechanic, which happens fairly early, the game doesn’t introduce a lot of new wrinkles to keep that same core loop feeling fresh across its full runtime, and by the back half I found myself going through the motions of the same sneak-and-hide pattern rather than being surprised by it. The atmosphere and sound design carry a lot of weight throughout, and the asthma mechanic tied to the protagonist adds a nice extra layer of tension on top of the noise system, but as a whole experience it’s a shorter, mid-tier horror game rather than something with a ton of replay value.
What I Liked
- Sound-based stealth is a genuinely well-realized central mechanic
- Strong atmosphere and sound design throughout
- The asthma mechanic adds a clever extra layer of tension
What I Didn’t
- Core loop gets repetitive once you’ve mastered the sound mechanic
- Doesn’t introduce much new to keep the back half feeling fresh
The Verdict
Rating: 3.5/5
A clever central mechanic that doesn’t quite have enough behind it to fill its own runtime, but a good pickup on sale for fans of the films.
