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Polish studio Bloober Team are working on a promising new game titled simply Observer. The game stars Rutger Hauer, whose name will be instantly familiar to any fans of the original Blade Runner. We actually wrote about the game last year, however the new reveal today is Hauer leading the experience.

While Hauer starred as the leader of a band of murderous replicants in Blade Runner, he’s kind of jumping to the other side of the equation with his role as an the eponymous Observer – a neural detective that hacks into the minds of people in search of clues behind crime cases.

Featured above, you can view the game’s latest trailer, which showcases Hauer’s velvety chords as Detective Daniel Lazarski.

The “cyberpunk horror story” begins when you get a strange message from your estranged son, a high-level engineer for the powerful Chiron Corporation. Sound familiar?

Set in the year 2084, most of humanity has been wiped out and those who survived live in a disgusting, near-uninhabitable world that sees most people living out their days in drugs, or virtual reality. Each mind hack brings with it horror-like experiences – how far will you go in search of the truth?

Here are the game’s key features:

• The Future of Fear
  Discover a dark cyberpunk world beset by plagues, war and squalor. Play as the new front line of neural police as you hack into the jagged minds of the insane.
• Interactive Insanity
  Designed to disturb, >observer_ is a psychologically twisted, interactive horror experience that will leave you questioning your reality as well as your very sanity.
• Starring science-fiction legend Rutger Hauer
  The strange mind of Daniel Lazarski is brought to life by Hollywood great Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner). Encouraged to improvise and make the character his own, Hauer’s performance raises the standard for acting in a game.

Observer is launching on August 15th across PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.