SIE Bend Studio is the first intellectual property created after Syphon Filter 1999 and the first home video console game studio by Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow in 2010.

 

As mentioned, Days Gone is a video game of action and adventure, full of survival and horror, set in an open world environment, from the apocalyptic descendent and from the third person perspective. The player takes control of the game's protagonist, Deacon St. John (Samuel Witwer), a recruitment seeker who prefers to live a dangerous life during his career, living in the depths of the forest.

 

The game is given over two years after a global pandemic has occurred. In this event almost all humanity was killed and millions of people became "Phenomenon", unlikely creatures, like zombies, who are rapidly developing. In E3 2016, an Exhibition of the Game was performed and two "Phenomena" were announced, Newtak and Horde.

 

As the game develops in an open world environment, the player can use a lot of money in order to achieve their goals, such as using silence for silent demolition or taking an aggressive approach to high-end and short-range weapons. Dynamic climate and a day and night cycle are also included in the game, which will have an impact on playability, making "phenomena" weak and slow during the day, but fast and violent throughout the night.

 

Vehicles like motorcycles can be used to explore the world of games. The player can create new objects to improve the effectiveness of the fight.

 

Days Gone joined the production phase in January 2015. It was officially announced on June 14, 2016, during the Sony conference during the E3 meeting of that year. The game is in development using the Unreal Engine 4 engine. John Garvin is the creative director and game writer, while Jeff Ross is the director.

 

On March 9, 2018, Sony Interactive Entertainment announced that launching at Days Gone would be about to decline one year, which would be expected to take place in 2018. Then Sony said the game would be on sale on February 22, 2019. But in the end, it was sent to store stores in October 2018 on April 26, 2019.