Studio Reset Announces Paranormal Detective Adventure The Eventide
The Eventide shifts the detective genre from direct point-and-click interaction to synthesizing multiple agents' written reports, a structure that emphasizes reading and deduction over exploration.
Key Facts
- Studio Reset announced The Eventide on July 30, 2026, as its first game.
- The Eventide is a paranormal detective mystery adventure set in a Canadian city.
- The game is planned for PC via Steam, where wishlist registration is available.
- Studio Reset was founded by former BioWare developers who worked on Mass Effect and Dragon Age.
- The Eventide features an investigation system where players read reports from multiple agents with different abilities.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Game Spark.
Studio Reset, a new studio founded by former BioWare developers, announced its first game, The Eventide, on July 30, 2026. The game is a paranormal detective mystery adventure set in a neon-lit Canadian city where supernatural events are common. Players run an investigation office and dispatch agents to investigate cases. Each case begins with a choice between two agents, each of whom perceives the world differently, leading to different discoveries about the same event. Agents have unique abilities, from basic investigative skills to supernatural ones like psychic intuition, and they investigate locations such as rain-soaked alleys, dusty libraries, and ruined radio stations. All clues found are added to a shared investigation notebook, allowing players to piece together a fuller picture of each case that neither agent could assemble alone. Once evidence is gathered, players connect it to uncover the truth and fill in the blanks of case reports. Solved cases open new clues, locations, and mysteries. The game is planned for PC via Steam, where wishlist registration is now available. Studio Reset was established by veterans of Mass Effect and Dragon Age, aiming to create smaller, more focused original games.
The Eventide is the debut project from Studio Reset, a studio formed by developers who previously worked on Mass Effect and Dragon Age at BioWare. The studio describes its mission as creating smaller, more focused original games, drawing on years of experience in game development.
The game's core mechanic centers on the Eventide Agency, a secret investigation team tasked with monitoring, researching, and sometimes intervening in supernatural phenomena. Players guide agents through cases, but the investigation is not a traditional point-and-click adventure. Instead, players dispatch multiple investigators, each with different specialties, and read their written reports. The reports may share common elements or contain contradictions, and players must identify these to deduce the truth.
Each agent views the world from a distinct perspective, which affects what becomes clear about a case. The shared investigation notebook compiles all discovered clues, enabling a complete picture that no single agent could achieve. The game's locations include rain-soaked alleys, dusty libraries, and ruined radio stations. Studio Reset will share further updates through its social media accounts.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.