After a year of silence, Paranormal Activity game from Mortuary Assistant dev finally gets a trailer, and it’s a found footage freakshow that makes Lethal Company look like Saturday morning cartoons

The initial 2007 Paranormal Activity doesn’t depend on a hefty budget or excessive gore to convey its message as one of the most unsettling horror films ever created – especially with the feeling that envelops you when you’re home alone, in the dark, and the ceiling creaks right above your bed. Indie developer DreadXP and The Mortuary Assistant creator DarkStone Digital clearly understand this, and they reveal it in the trailer for their new spin-off game, Paranormal Activity: Threshold, which was first introduced in 2024.

Like the original film from 2007, Threshold illustrates the folly of misguided boyfriends. In the movie, Micah begins recording his girlfriend Katie, who claims to have been haunted since her childhood. In Paranormal Activity: Threshold, the young couple Daniel and Jessica documents their ongoing renovation. They soon find out that ancient bones, even within their seemingly harmless house, do not wish to be disturbed.

“The sole residence we can manage!” Daniel mourns in Threshold’s trailer, asserting to Jessica that anything odd she senses must be due to her inhaling carbon monoxide. Perhaps a malfunctioning detector.

He sounds just as ridiculous as Micah, making it a relief when the trailer ultimately disproves him. There’s an unmistakable shadow lurking in the corner, and what do these markings on the ouija board signify?

I don’t like this! I wish to leave! Yet grainy footage of Jessica weeping implies there’s no “out” – only going further in. Threshold’s Steam page features ghost hunting, demonic rites, and multiple timelines among your gameplay alternatives, along with a generative “Paranormal Engine” that renders each experience distinct. If you can withstand it.

Paranormal Activity: Threshold does not yet have a launch date, so perhaps you should explore the 25 top horror games to play currently?

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She has also served as a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, and has penned freelance articles regarding horror and the representation of women in gaming for platforms such as Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. Outside of her gaming news coverage, she often engages in expanding her doll collection while viewing Saw movies one through 11.