Directive 8020 starts aboard the spaceship Cassiopeia, where you join a group of scientists venturing to the exoplanet Tau Ceti f. Tasked with setting up the next intergalactic colony, all these scientists are meant to do is take a look at the new planet and figure out how safe it is for the colonists following their ship. I'll save you the suspense: it's not very safe. Before you can even get situated, an alien lifeform finds its way inside the ship, and from then on you're tasked with keeping the scientists on board away from harm, aka the shapeshifting alien lifeform that seems to have an infinite amount of teeth, eyes, and flesh. It's a tough task, but one made infinitely easier thanks to Supermassive Games' new system, Turning Points. This mechanic treads new ground, taking a sledgehammer to the kind of tension you'd find in previous Supermassive Games like Until Dawn or House of Ashes—it shouldn't work, but it does. I spoke highly of this system in my Directive 8020 review, as it allows players to rewind mistakes no matter how far along you are in the story. I don't love it for how it sanitises my poor decisions, no, Turning Points is quite literally a game changer; transforming Directive 8020 from a survival horror into a gory puzzle. Before I dive into the glories of using Turning Points, here's a quick PSA: play Directive 8020 on Survivor mode first. This effectively turns Turning Points off, offering up a classic horrifying Supermassive Game. I did this for my first run and didn't regret it. It kept events suspenseful from start to finish as I typically had no clue how my actions would manifest in reactions, which made my blood pressure rise with every QTE. It wasn't until my second and third runs that I switched Turning Points on, and my playthrough was better for it. It meant that I got all the nostalgic scares and stressors of previous Dark Pictures Anthology games, but with the new and improved horror puzzle aspects you get with Turning Points. I