A potential The Evil Within 3 teaser has been spotted in Tango Gameworks‘ Hi-Fi Rush, in the form of a news ticker that reads “Sequel to popular survival horror game anounced [sic].” While this is not a confirmation of The Evil Within 3’s existence by any means, the placement of the supposed teaser and Tango Gameworks’ small IP catalogue make it quite likely that a new Evil Within game is being hinted at through the teaser.

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While Tango Gameworks’ The Evil Within franchise has seen no new games since the second installment in 2017, director Kenji Kimura revealed last year that the studio’s Ghostwire: Tokyo IP began life as The Evil Within 3. Eventually, the game transformed into the Japanese mythology-inspired, karate-meets-magic game it is now, and the earlier concept was shelved for the time being.

However, Tango Gameworks’ funky new rhythm fighter Hi-Fi Rush seems to be hinting that the survival horror franchise does have a future. In the cinematic preceding Track 11: The Needle Drop, Chai and company are taking an elevator ride up to the office of Kale Vandelay, the game’s final boss. Just as their ascent is about to conclude, the elevator screen is displayed for a few frames. The screen reads the floor number (776, Kale Office), but also displays a weather and news ticker.

The news ticker curiously reads “Sequel to popular survival horror game anounced [sic],” before the elevator screen quickly disappears. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it placement of the screen is only one reason why the ticker may be more than just a ticker. The only horror IP Tango Gameworks has ever worked on is The Evil Within, and the fact that the ticker explicitly mentions a sequel means that whatever the ticker is hinting at is not a new IP. Ghostwire: Tokyo’s original concept already proves that the studio has never been averse to continuing The Evil Within, and as such, a number of coincidences have lined up that may well mean that The Evil Within 3 is in the works.

As always, take this with a grain of salt: it is, after all, just a curious news ticker on an elevator screen in a different game. If you want to see what Tango Gameworks’ previous idea of The Evil Within 3 morphed into, check out our review of Ghostwire: Tokyo, where we found the game “hopefully a start to a beautiful franchise.”

Source: GamesRadar+