A Quiet Place is getting in on the tie-in media with the release of A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead. Set during the first 100ish days of the invasion, it focuses on a new character named Alex Taylor who navigates the world during her pregnancy. Following the death of her boyfriend Martin, she must traverse the dangers of the new world and survive on her own.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a 2024 survival horror game, it was developed by Stormind Games and published by Saber Interactive. It is available on PC, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Editor’s Note: A Playstation 5 review code for A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was provided by Saber Interactive in support of this review. Light spoilers for the films and The Road Ahead may be present in this review.

A Quiet Place enters video games with the release of The Road Ahead.

Following the release of the first prequel film and impending sequel, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead brings the franchise to a new form of media as the series’ first video game. A new survivor, Alex Taylor, is in the early days of the invasion from the alien threat sensitive to sound. With a pregnancy and her waning health, Alex must escape the creatures and former comrades hunting her down. Players must avoid noise using the environment around them and even the elements to protect them from detection.

The Road Ahead forces players to watch their noise levels to survive.

THE GOOD: Set within the first 120 days of the film franchise Alex Taylor and her boyfriend Martin have been dealing with an unforeseen alien invasion plaguing Earth. While searching for food Alex who also suffers from asthma learns that she’s pregnant. During an escape, Martin sacrifices himself to save Alex and she returns to her father Kenneth to work on a device to detect sound levels. When Martin’s mother Laura learns of her pregnancy she locks up Alex in what seems like hostility. Alex with help from Kenneth escapes but following a Death Angel attack is pursued by Laura and Mark who ran the camp they were staying at. Alex goes off to a new camp she heard rumors about while being chased down by a Death Angel.

The story for A Quite Place: The Road Ahead provides a little more of what life was like at the start of the invasion. Similarly to “Day One” it gives us the experience of the invasion through the eyes of the early survivors. In regards to gameplay, it’s a healthy mix of Alien: Isolation and Dying Light if you’re at all familiar with the stealth mechanics of the latter, especially with the night gameplay. Using sound to quiet noise is a neat mechanic for a game like this. Typically with these sorts of hide-n-seek-like games you just hide as the enemy seeks you as you wait for your opportunity to escape, but The Road Ahead provides players a nice amount of options to play defense in the right scenario.

In addition to watching their noise levels, players also must contend with watching Alex’s health. She suffers from asthma and certain situations cause her condition to flare up such as close encounters with the Death Angel or areas with heavy dust. To combat this you have to either find pills that act as quick health boosters, or risk making noise with the inhaler.

Players can dull sound with sand to avoid alien detection.

THE BAD: A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead provides a good idea of what a video game set in the franchise can be. Naturally being a bit on the smaller budget side of things some problems arise. These are hardly as offensive as the bigger AAA-budgeted games, namely some glitching here and there. Sometimes it genuinely feels unfair with the noise detection being as sensitive as it is, especially if you have the mic mechanic on, but these can be turned down in sensitivity if you wish. The Road Ahead also has a slightly disappointing playtime of about five hours, but it’s somewhat forgiven considering this game feels like an experiment of sorts for the series.

Tools such as flashlights and the phonometer to guide & protect Alex as she navigates the world.

OVERALL THOUGHTS: A Quiet Place has successfully found itself fondly within the hearts of Sci-Fi and horror fans nearly everywhere. Each entry of the film franchise has been well-received by critics and fans alike & it is time to see if the franchise can perhaps hold up in new media. The Road Ahead isn’t going to shock and awe, but it does enough right for a video game that gives some clever edits and nods to other works and its intellectual property skin to provide a satisfying first-try experience.