Even though Supermassive Games is hard at work on their horror anthology, The Dark Pictures, with the first entry, Man of Medan, set for release later this year, there are some wondering why we never got a sequel to Supermassive’s first hit in Until Dawn.

Well, in an interview with Game Informer, the devs explain just why despite the calls for a sequel, Supermassive opted to go the route of a horror anthology.

According to Pete Samuels, the CEO and executive producer of Supermassive, the team decided that working on an anthology series would allow them to create more projects similar to Until Dawn, but in a shorter period of time. “A lot of [creating the anthology] is about our desire to serve that fanbase from our perspective and to serve us ourselves in what we love to do, which is do more stories and characters, and do it more frequently than one or two every few years,” Samuels said.

Man of Medan director Tom Heaton echoes a similar view, saying that with The Dark Pictures anthology, it allows the team at Supermassive to explore different areas of horror, rather than just being pigeon-holed with the potentially limiting areas presented with Until Dawn. “[The Dark Pictures is] a great opportunity to wrestle with a new subject, a new genre, and with characters that you can develop specifically for that story. You’re not tied to historical characters that you have to use.”

Producer Dan McDonald was more concrete with the decision to not make a sequel, saying that it would be difficult to create a follow-up to Until Dawn, given that the outcome of the story was so dependent on the player’s choices. “If we were making sequels, we don’t know who survived. I mean we could probably work it out from your game save, but we don’t want to make a sequel to that. We want to make a different story with different people.”

Regardless, it’s probably for the best that Supermassive went the route that they did, since as the devs stated, the scope presented with Until Dawn was limiting. Plus, from what we’ve seen so far, Man of Medan looks damn cool and spooky. And with the ongoing dev diaries, you can tell that the team is focused on delivering something special.

Man of Medan is set for a Summer release on PlayStation 4, PC, and Xbox One this year.