New Paranormal Activity Found Footage Game Announced

Key Highlights:

• Paramount teams with DreadXP and DarkStone for new Paranormal Activity video game
• Titled Paranormal Activity: Found Footage, stays true to movies’ POV camera style
• Developer known for indie horror hits like The Mortuary Assistant and My Friendly Neighbourhood
• Plans to expand franchise lore and feature dynamic scare system that reacts to player
• Release planned for 2026 on multiple platforms – first major non-VR Paranormal Activity game

An exciting new video game adaptation of Paramount’s massively popular Paranormal Activity horror franchise is on the way, titled Paranormal Activity: Found Footage. The publisher has partnered with rising indie horror developer DarkStone Digital and publisher DreadXP for the project, tapping into the franchise lore through the signature found-footage style.

Paranormal Activity’s impact on the horror genre since its smash debut in 2007 has been immense, pioneering the mainstream found-footage technique and sparking numerous sequels and spinoffs. Now, Paramount aims to immerse players directly into that terrifying world like never before.

Found-Footage Style Immersion Tailored for Gaming

Paranormal Activity: Found Footage plans to embrace the up-close first person viewpoint that defined the movies and sparked a new wave of horror. This perspective is a natural fit for gaming, as seen in acclaimed titles like Outlast and Layers of Fear that deliver white-knuckle scares through a player-controlled camera.

By adopting the same found-footage concept, this latest entry can make full use of the uniquely immersive capabilities of the gaming medium. Players will experience the disturbing events unravelling around them up close and personal, ratcheting up the tension exponentially.

Expanding the Paranormal Activity Universe Lore

While utilising the core found-footage framework, the upcoming horror title also aims to build out the franchise mythology and world. The developer has hinted that the game will provide more lore expansion than any of the previous films.

This presents an exciting opportunity to dive deeper into the demonic entities and mysterious forces that have haunted the series since the first Paranormal Activity movie. There is rich lore to draw from that could be elaborated on regarding character backstories and the origins of the evil spirits plaguing them.

By growing the Paranormal Activity universe in new ways uniquely suited to an interactive experience, Found Footage can offer fans a refreshing new medium through which to explore the property’s expansive mythology.

Crafted by Rising Horror Developer DreadXP

Leading development on Paranormal Activity: Found Footage is DarkStone Digital, the one-man studio of Brian Clarke. Clarke has made a name for himself recently with acclaimed indie horror titles The Mortuary Assistant and My Friendly Neighbourhood.

Both games excel at crafting terrifyingly intimate, atmospheric first-person horror experiences. These skills should translate perfectly in bringing the series signature found-footage scares to life.

Publisher DreadXP, who Clarke collaborates with, specialises in supporting ambitious indie horror visions. Paramount couldn’t have partnered with a more qualified creative team to expand their horror franchise into gaming.

Innovative Scare Systems Tailored to Player Actions

Paranormal Activity: Found Footage plans to implement an advanced dynamic “haunt system” that alters the scares and intensity based on responding to the player’s actions in real time. Rather than scripted events, it aims to keep players on their toes with ever-evolving supernatural threats.

This unique scare system combined with the franchise’s compelling lore and intimate found-footage presentation could make Paranormal Activity: Found Footage one of the most uniquely terrifying horror games ever when it creeps onto unspecified platforms in 2026.