Earlier this year, Bloober Team released one of the first next-gen only games in The Medium, a classic-style survival-horror game inspired by classics like Silent Hill. The Medium earned mostly positive reviews at the time of its release and was generally considered a strong addition to the Xbox Game Pass lineup. Now it seems The Medium is making its way to the PlayStation 5, though fans will still have to wait a few months to play it.
The Medium PS5 release date is September 3, with the game set to be available in both digital and physical formats. There doesn't seem to be any new content in the works for the PS5 version of The Medium, but it will reportedly have "full DualSense controller support." The specific ways The Medium will take advantage of the PlayStation 5's DualSense controller were not detailed in the announcement trailer.
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For those unfamiliar with the game, The Medium is developed by Bloober Team, a studio that focused almost exclusively on horror game projects. Bloober Team's goal is to be like the Blumhouse of the video game industry, and so horror game fans can expect the studio to keep releasing new games in the same vein as The Medium and its other projects.
Besides The Medium, Bloober Team is perhaps best known for its Layers of Fear series, as well as the cyberpunk horror game Observer. Bloober Team was also the studio behind the Blair Witch video game, which was mostly successful in its attempt to translate the Blair Witch film franchise to video game format.
As far as The Medium goes, it differs from some of Bloober Team's other games in key ways. The biggest difference is that The Medium is a third-person game, whereas most Bloober Team titles are first-person. This shift in perspective, along with The Medium's fixed camera angles, goes a long way in replicating the feel of the old-school survival-horror games that inspired the game.
With Bloober Team releasing The Medium on more platforms, awareness of the game should grow, and that in turn should make it more likely that a sequel will be developed. The Medium ending does leave some major loose ends, and there's no doubt many fans of the original game who would like to see what happens next. Whether or not The Medium sequel is Bloober Team's next project or if the studio is working on something completely different remains to be seen, but for now, PS5 owners can look forward to the game coming to their platform of choice.
The Medium is out now for PC and Xbox Series X, with the PS5 version launching on September 3.