D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
Developer(s)Access Games
Publisher(s)Microsoft Studios[a]
Director(s)
Producer(s)Nobou Tomita
Designer(s)
  • Keisuke Mori
  • Shintaro Imai
Programmer(s)Masato Kono
Masanori Okabe
Artist(s)Hitoshi Okamoto
Writer(s)
  • Hidetaka Suehiro
  • Hiroyuki Saegusa
  • Kenji Goda
Composer(s)
EngineUnreal Engine 3[2]
Platform(s)
ReleaseXbox One
19 September 2014[1]
Microsoft Windows
5 June 2015
Genre(s)Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player[3]

D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die is an episodic graphical adventure video game developed by Access Games and published by Microsoft Studios for the Xbox One. The title represents the phrase "Dark Dreams Don't Die" and the fourth dimension (time).[4] The game is unrelated to D or D2.[4][5] The initial release contains a prologue and two episodes that make up season one of the series. A PC version was released on 5 June 2015, published by Playism in partnership with Access Games. In October 2016, Hidetaka Suehiro announced that he had left Access Games and that there would be no more episodes of D4.[6]

  1. ^ "Deadly Premonition dev's Xbox One exclusive D4 launches tomorrow". Eurogamer.net. 2014-09-18. Archived from the original on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  2. ^ Darwich, Aki (1 December 2014). "D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Prologue, Episodes 1 & 2) AUTOMATON Review". Automaton. Archived from the original on 4 December 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. ^ "D4 Brings the Bizarre to Life, David Lynch-Style". Xbox Wire. Microsoft. 11 June 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ^ a b Arendt, Susan (13 June 2013). "D4 Brings Stylish Murder to Xbox One". The Escapist. Defy Media. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  5. ^ Mooks, Kevin (18 September 2014). "D4 and the Evolution of the Noir Adventure Game". Xbox Wire. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 28 November 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  6. ^ Suehiro, Hidetaka (30 October 2016). "Day 360, Unfortunately I retired from Access Games after all". Twitter. Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2018.


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