Netflix expands TV game lineup with Conjuring spinoff

# Netflix expands TV game lineup with Conjuring spinoff Source: [https://www.theverge.com/streaming/1005942/netflix-the-conjuring-unspoken-games](https://www.theverge.com/streaming/1005942/netflix-the-conjuring-unspoken-games) [](https://www.theverge.com/authors/jay-peters) Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more\. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme\. Netflix just announced*The Conjuring: Unspoken*, a new horror game set in*The Conjuring*universe that you can play with your phone as a controller, and it will launch exclusively on the service on October 13th\. > *The Conjuring: Unspoken*is an interactive paranormal investigation you can play from your couch\. It’s a narrative experience, so you shape the story by choosing different dialogue options as you play\. Using your phone, you scour the historic Red Lion Inn \(reportedly a haunted place in England\) for clues about things that go bump in the night\. As demonologist Francesca Noakes, you scan the area around you with an electromagnetic field reader, an infrared camera, and a spirit box — ghost\-hunter tools of the trade for finding apparitions in the wild\. The big screen shows your virtual environment, while the one in your hand serves as the controller for these tools\. The infrared camera, for instance, allows you to see a thermal overlay of the environment while you’re looking for cold spots that indicate an otherworldly presence\. Netflix says you need to have seen the*Conjuring*movies to play the game, but adds that there are “a few familiar faces that pop up in the game, and knowing the backstory adds to the overall impact\.” *The Conjuring: Unspoken*was developed by Supermassive Games, known for other narrative horror games like*The Quarry*and*Until Dawn*\. The studio announced in August that[it planned](https://x.com/SuperMGames/status/2087142850936885520)to lay off up to 75 staffers, and Supermassive’s former IT and facilities director[said yesterday](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7512806919758209025/)on LinkedIn that “more than 70” people would be leaving the studio\. The new game follows the June launch of[another horror title,*Unhinged*](https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/953933/unhinged-netflix-horror-tv-game)\. That game was developed by Night School, the studio behind*Oxenfree*, but Netflix[shut down the studio in August](https://www.theverge.com/games/979855/netflix-shut-down-night-school-studio-moonloot-games)\. **Follow topics and authors**from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates\. - Jay Peters