A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

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Survive the world of A Quiet Place, where one loud step can get you killed.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Mostly Positive on Steam (73% of 1,334 English reviews); 3.78 of 5 from 6,302 ratings on the PlayStation Store; Metacritic 67 from 32 critics (PS5)
Length: about 8 hours
Players: 1
Made by: Stormind Games
Released: 2024

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What frightens Blind creatures with hypersensitive hearing have overrun the world, and one loud sound gets you killed in a single hit. You creep through a ranch, a hospital and a dark town in first person, reading a noise meter, keeping your asthma in check and opening every door slowly, and an optional setting lets them hear you through your real microphone.
Content: violence and death, blood, strong language, one-hit deaths with sudden creature attacks, uses your microphone (optional).

A first-person stealth horror game set in the world of the A Quiet Place films. You play Alex Taylor, an asthmatic and newly pregnant college student, sneaking past blind creatures that hunt by sound across an abandoned rural America, where a kicked can or a creaking door can be the end.

About A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a single-player, first-person horror game by the Italian studio Stormind Games, who also made the Remothered survival horror games. Saber Interactive published it on October 17, 2024 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It tells a new story set between A Quiet Place: Day One and the first film, so you do not need to have seen the films to follow it.

You play Alex Taylor, a college student with asthma who survives the invasion with her boyfriend Martin among a group sheltering in a hospital. On a supply run to a ranch she learns she is pregnant, and the story follows her from the hospital to a camp and on into a town as the people around her split over what to do.

The creatures are blind, fast and kill in one hit, and they hear everything. Almost all of the game is about not being heard: you watch a handheld device that shows how much noise you are making, step around broken glass, water, cans and dry leaves, throw objects as distractions and pour sand to make quiet paths, as in the films. Doors, vents, valves and drawers are opened slowly with the analog stick, so even a simple puzzle is nerve-racking. You cannot fight back.

Alex's asthma takes the place of a health bar. Running, carrying heavy things or getting too close to a creature strains her breathing, and if she pushes too far an asthma attack can give her away, so you manage it with inhalers and pills you find. An optional setting uses your microphone, so speaking or coughing in your own room can bring a creature down on you.

Critics called it tense but uneven, with a slow opening and stiff animations, and players on Steam are mostly positive. It suits fans of the films and of stealth horror where you are always the prey, and it is closer to Alien: Isolation than to a shooter.

How to play A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead

Buy it on Steam, the PlayStation Store or the Xbox store, and choose a difficulty.
Move in first person and watch the handheld noise meter as you walk on different surfaces.
Step around broken glass, water, cans and leaves, and crouch when you need to move quietly.
Open doors, vents and drawers slowly with the stick; pulling them too fast makes noise.
Throw objects to distract a creature, or pour sand to make a quiet path.
Keep Alex's breathing calm: avoid long runs and use inhalers or pills when her asthma flares.
Follow the story's objectives from one shelter to the next; checkpoints are frequent.

Screenshots

Holding a glowing noise meter inside a dark shed while a tall, spindly creature stands in the fog outside

Night on overgrown railway tracks lit red, leading to a dim tunnel, with the handheld noise meter in the foreground

First-person view reaching toward the door of a small wooden radio station cabin at night, red poppies in the grass

A deserted gas station with a school bus and an overturned car, a bag of construction sand in the foreground

A flashlight beam on stacked planks and red barrels in a dark warehouse, something spiky behind a blue tarp

Holding a flashlight in a dark, mouldy abandoned room with a table, crates and dry leaves on the floor

Tips

Walk slowly on unknown ground; running or flinging a door open is almost always heard.
Look around before moving; the quiet route or a pile of sand is usually there to be found.
Pick up every inhaler and pill you see, since an asthma attack near a creature can kill you.
If you turn on microphone detection, play in a quiet room and mute anything nearby.
On PS5, the DualSense microphone only works for the game if Mute Game Voice Chat is turned off in the system settings.

Questions

Is A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead scary?

It is tense more than shocking: you are hunted by creatures you cannot fight, one loud sound kills you, and the game lives on the dread of kicking a can or creaking a door.

How long is A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead?

HowLongToBeat puts the main story at about 8 hours, and the publisher says 8 to 10 hours depending on how you play. A Kotaku reviewer finished it in about five hours on normal difficulty.

Does A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead use your microphone?

Only if you turn it on. The optional setting lets the creatures react to sounds you make through a connected microphone or headset, including the DualSense microphone on PS5.

Is it connected to the films?

It tells a new story with new characters in the same world, set between A Quiet Place: Day One and the first film.

Is there co-op or New Game Plus?

No. It is single-player only and has no New Game Plus, though it has several difficulty settings.