It is the first game in the franchise to be announced after a hiatus of 8 years since the release date of Dead Space 3 and its DLC, not considering the scrapped Dead Space 4 project. The game is rumored to be inspired by Capcom's 2019 Resident Evil 2: Remake, to which, likewise, Resident Evil 4 was also one of the inspirations for the original 2008 game. Prior to the official announcement, numerous leakers came forward with a rumored Dead Space remake in the works at EA, and that the studio behind the 2020 video game Star Wars: Squadrons would be making it for the Frostbite engine.