10 Video Game Sequel Baits That Went Nowhere

With all three Alone in the Dark titles before it taking place in the 1920s, The New Nightmare was an at-the-time modern reboot.

On top of reinventing the character of Edward Carnby, it also introduced Christopher Lamb. He’s your X-Files style Smoking Man bad guy; sitting behind a desk, pulling strings and not getting directly involved. However, it’s very clear that the developers are setting him up to be something grander in the series.

Players explore Shadow Island, collecting stone tablets. At the story's end, the island is destroyed and the gate to the World of Darkness on it goes with it. The problem is, there’s a scene late into the game where Lamb’s assistant Frederick Johnson admits his part in the evil schemes and reveals that Lamb knows the whereabouts of at least two more gates to the World of Darkness and has the macguffins to use them.

What Lamb was planning, we’ll never know as, despite being a surprisingly solid survival horror title, the game never got any sequels. Instead, Alone in the Dark was rebooted yet again in 2008.

There is actually a 2002 comic book that was designed to at least carry on The New Nightmare’s plot somewhat… but even that got cancelled after just one issue.