Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is giving Stranger Things vibes in The Game Awards 2023 reveal

DON’T NOD is back with another project

Marco Wutz | Dec 7, 2023

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is giving Stranger Things vibes in The Game Awards 2023 reveal /

No rest for the wicked: DON’T NOD is currently putting the finishing touches on Banishers, but already has another project in the works at its Montreal studio: Lost Records has been announced at The Game Awards 2023 and it has some incredibly special vibes that are reminiscent of Stranger Things, the popular horror and mystery show from Netflix. Lost Records is set for a release in late 2024 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

You can watch the mysterious Lost Records announcement trailer here:

A group of youths up to some mischief is depicted as suddenly facing a mysterious force, until a time skip shows us one of the group's members as an adult, leaving us with more questions than answers about what the game will be like.

The official description says the following:

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is a brand-new story-driven journey through time. The magical summer of 1995 is one of self-discovery and forging unbreakable bonds for high school friends Swann, Nora, Autumn, and Kat. 27 years of no contact later, fate reunites them to confront the long-buried secret that made them promise to never speak again.

Executive Producer Luc Baghadoust and Creative Director Michel Koch commented: “It’s been quite an adventure for us since our incredible Life is Strange experience – relocating to Canada, setting up our Montréal studio, and assembling a fantastic team during the global challenges we’ve all faced. Today we are thrilled to finally unveil Lost Records: Bloom & Rage. This new universe is brimming with the magical realism we love, and we are eager to reveal more about Swann, Nora, Autumn, Kat and their journey. We can’t wait to hear the community’s thoughts!”

DON’T NOD, which is headquartered in the French capital Paris, is the studio behind games like Vampyr, Life is Strange, and more recently Jusant – it’s a team that knows how to do ‘weird’ well and seems to feel at home in any genre. Lost Records will be the first game from its studio in Montreal.

Published Dec 7, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg