Hitman 3 will be an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC – Dartmoor murder mystery level revealed

If you’ve been playing the Hitman series on PC via Steam up until this point, you’ll have to hop storefronts if you want to conclude the trilogy. IO Interactive have announced that, as they self-publish for the first time, they’ve struck a deal to make Hitman 3 a 12-month timed exclusive to the Epic Games Store.

Thankfully, you will still be able to carry over your current progression and unlocks from Hitman 2 in Steam, and you’ll also be able to import locations from the first two games into Hitman 3 from other storefronts. “We want to make it a seamless process for our PC players to enjoy Hitman 3 on a different PC platform and continue to enjoy the benefits of our World of Assassination,” IO write.

To help in that regard, the first game in the trilogy will be a free game on the Epic Games Store from 27th August to 3rd September, alongside Shadowrun Collection.

IO also revealed a new location and mission. Set in Dartmoor, England and called The Thornbridge Mystery, it evokes many a classic British whodunnit, with a murder mystery for Agent 47 to solve… on his way to committing another murder.

Nick Price, Lead Writer on Hitman 3 said, “HITMAN missions are very complicated affairs with plenty of moving parts and lots of characters you are able to interact with in a huge variety of ways. In Dartmoor’s murder mystery, we are dialing all of that up to 11.

Every member of the family is a possible suspect and it’s been quite the challenge to make sure everything doesn’t fall apart just because the player wants to play around. In fact, that sort of behaviour should be rewarded in a HITMAN game, so we have been working hard on making sure that depending on what a player discovers during their investigation, outcomes might differ. It’s going to be great fun to see how everyone tackles this particular problem next year.”

Hitman 3 will be out for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC via the Epic Games Store in January 2021. Presumably it’ll then pop up on Steam in January 2022.

Source: IOI