A Quiet Place The Road Ahead Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · November 4, 2024

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead Review is a single-player horror adventure game inspired by the critically acclaimed blockbuster movie franchise that highlights a unique survivor story after an invasion of deadly creatures. In this exclusive spin-off, experience the journey of a young woman who must endure a treacherous apocalypse in the midst of interpersonal family conflicts, all while coming to terms with her own inner fears.

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
31.36GB download size.
Platinum trophy.
Graphics settings – brightness slider, graphics mode (performance/quality), bloom, and film grain.
Controller microphone support (optional) you can set the minimum threshold and conversation sensitivity. Making loud noises through the mic can trigger the monsters.
Interface experience presets – simplified, standard, realistic, and cinematic. This adjusts hints, item callout signs, crosshairs, camera bobbing, etc.
Accessibility options – subtitle size and color, Colourblind support, steady aim, creatures outline, HUD and UI scale, phonometer awareness meter, and improved focus.
Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, deadzone sliders, and interaction sensitivity, and you can remap the buttons.
Extras menu houses concept art, and characters.
Three difficulties – Easy, normal, and hard. It affects how well your abilities work, how the resources are scattered, and how good the enemies are in tracking you.
Horror-laced adventure gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
Sound is very important and any noise can mean death.
The environment is the deadliest enemy of all, water, leaves, and anything like this can cause noise.
Very atmospheric.
Excellent music score, it’s used at just the right time.
Depending on your options, button prompts and interaction icons will show in the world.
Fantastic voice work.
PROS support is the system that like Uplay, links your account and gets free rewards and giveaways. Optional.
Customize the game to your liking with how you get interaction prompts or button icons, noise markers, etc.
The game is best played with headphones.
When you get to a door, drawer, or window you use the stuck to move the door at any speed you choose, you have full control.
It’s a game that has you on edge at all times.
Your journal fills in as you find notes or add diary entries.
Hidden mixtapes and toy Collectibles.
You have a handy hint button that will gently guide you towards your objective.
First-person view.
One of the most immersive experiences of my gaming life.
All cutscenes and interactions are in the game.
Seamless integration of cutscenes.
You can skip interactions and select cutscenes.
Find tools and items to help unlock alternate pathways.
Asthma stress is where your character’s lungs go from white to red, physical or mental stress will increase it and pills or an inhaler will reduce it.
Asthma attack minigame where your level is so high you have to press a button quick enough to avoid an attack.
It nails the atmosphere of the film and combines that with the tropes and set pieces it really does hammer home just how well this game fits into the narrative.
Despite all the tension it is a really good game to play and is smooth so it is accessible and approachable.

A Quiet Place The Road Ahead Review Cons:

Lining up interactions is a real pain, just doing simple climbing actions is tedious.
There is no way to turn off the swearing.
Slow starter.
Invisible to all kill the immersion and they are around a lot more than you would like.
The game is not as open as it makes you think and actually just guides you into situations and it all feels staged.
So much of the story is just picking up the many notes and reading them.
You don’t have a wide range of actions and play more like a walking sometimes running Simulator.
You are not always sure when it is saved, you cannot save it when you want.

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