The Secret World developer Funcom is returning the realm of single player games with The Park, an experimental horror coming to PC this year.

It is the studio’s first single player experience since award-winning 2006 adventure Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, but it will take place in the mysterious universe of MMO The Secret World.

According to the Norwegian developer, The Park is a unique horror story that will put players in the shoes of a mother whose son goes missing. When night falls and the lights go out, what follows is "a short, but intense horror story set against the backdrop of an amusement park where a dark and sinister secret is just waiting to be uncovered".

As per Funcom:

Amusement parks are happy places, filled with the innocent joys of childhood and the exhilarating rush of hair-raising, but safe adventure. Balloons, cotton candy and fantastic rides to be dared. Perhaps that is how Lorraine pictured it too when she brought her son Callum to one... just before it descended into the most terrifying nightmare of her life.

"It has been very exciting and creatively energizing for us working on a single-player experience again," said Funcom CEO Rui Casais.

"The Park is actually the outcome of what started with a small group of developers experimenting with new concepts and looking at how we could draw upon the universes we have built for our massively multiplayer online games and expand upon them into smaller-scale single-player games.

“Something special started to take shape, and The Park ultimately became something we are eager to share with the rest of the world."

Further details are expected closer to the game’s launch in October.