The protagonist of The Medium, Marianne, is haunted by visions of a child's murder, so she travels to an abandoned hotel looking for answers. Playing as a medium will give us a very unique vantage point that's beyond the reach for ordinary people.' So nothing is simple, nothing is black and white, and everything depends on the perspective and the information we have. 'The Medium is a game about points of view.

And then we developed the Blair Witch game, which tells a story about the inner guilt that burns you from the inside. Then we created The Observer with Rutger Hauer, and this what makes us humans. Of course it's still a horror game, but at its heart, it's telling you about more mature and more important topics. 'Layers of Fear was about work versus family. 'We at Bloober are specializing in creating psychological-horror games, but we are not doing it only to scare the shit out of people, but also to tackle a specific subject,' he said. Piejko started by explaining how, like most horror fiction, all of its games are fundamentally metaphors for larger themes. GameSpot spoke with lead game designer Wojciech Piejko about how the studio approaches its ideas, how it's taking advantage of the next-gen technology, and the secret feature that kept this project from being made for almost a decade.

During Microsoft's most recent Inside Xbox presentation, the studio debuted its latest tense thriller, an Xbox Series X exclusive called The Medium. Bloober Team has made its name on horror games like Layers of Fear, The Observer, and Blair Witch.

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