Until Dawn

Until Dawn is an upcoming adventure survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4.^[1] The game was originally scheduled to be released on the PlayStation 3 and feature PlayStation Move support, but in August 2014, the game was reintroduced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive.^[2]

Plot

Sam (Hayden Panettiere), Josh (Rami Malek), Jessica (Meaghan Martin), Mike (Brett Dalton), Emily (Nichole Bloom), Matt (Jordan Fisher), Ashley (Galadriel Stineman), and Chris (Noah Fleiss) spend the night in a log cabin on the anniversary of the death of one of their friends, unaware that they are being hunted by a crazed serial killer.^[3]

Gameplay

Until Dawn is designed to be replayed multiple times as players will not be able to understand the full story with only just one playthrough. Each playthrough will last about 9 hours in length and the game mechanics will utilize a new in-game system called the “Butterfly Effect” in which any choice of action by the player may cause major unforeseen consequences later on. Throughout the game players will make difficult decisions during ethical or moral dilemmas such as to sacrifice one character in order to save another as one example. The “Butterfly Effect” system blurs the line between right and wrong decisions and it is possible for players to keep all eight characters alive or to have them all killed, allowing for many different paths and scenarios players can take and seemingly endless multiple endings. Until Dawn will have a strict auto-save system to prevent players from reloading a previous save file to an earlier point in the game if they regret an in-game decision that they have made.^[4][5]

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