We already knew that season three of Stranger Things will be accompanied by a neat, 16-bit-looking game for consoles and PC - but we now know there's yet another video game in the works, based on the smash-hit supernatural Netflix show.
Simply called Stranger Things, this second project is a mobile title, targeting both Android and iOS, with Pokémon GO-like augmented-reality gameplay. It's being made by Finland's Next Games, and will use Google Maps to allow players to explore the Upside Down beneath their own neighbourhoods, through your phone screen.
Next Games has experience with this kind of AR-ish TV-tie-in title - the studio produced The Walking Dead: Our World, which brought a virtual zombie apocalypse to the palm of your hand.
The new game's art style, as shown in the images on this page, is very striking - but not all that spooky. It's adopting what Next Games consider to be a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon look, and having watched his way through enough of those in the '80s, this writer can only say: yep, looks pretty nailed to me.
Says Next Games' CEO, Teemu Huuhtanen, of the project:
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Stranger Things, the mobile game, is set for a 2020 release. The isometric retro-styled one comes out on July 4, coinciding with the launch on Netflix of season three of the show.
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