Blair Witch Project gets video game adaptation

According to the Verge, the game is being developed by Layers of Fear creator Bloober Team and will be “based on the cinematic lore of Blair Witch”.

The Blair Witch Project, which released in 1999, used the found footage technique to tell the story of three filmmaking students who hike the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland

in 1994 to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. They disappear and their equipment and footage is found a year later.

Blair Witch is a story-driven, psychological horror game that takes place in Maryland’s Black Hills Forest in 1996 where a young boy has disappeared.

The gamer joins the search as Ellis, a former police officer with a troubled past.

The game will be available for both XBOX One and PC platforms on August 30.