Until Dawn

Sony Interactive Entertainment

    What is Until Dawn?

    Face your fears and determine who survives in this enhanced version of the horror classic.

    Rebuilt from the ground up for PS5® consoles and PC, Until Dawn™ invites you to immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.

    When eight friends return to the isolated mountain lodge where two of their group vanished a year prior, things quickly take a sinister turn. As fear tightens its icy grip on the group, their remote retreat becomes an inescapable nightmare.

    Your actions and choices will determine who survives Until Dawn in this definitive version of the seminal horror classic.

    FEAR

    Key features

    Why you should play Until Dawn

    Cult horror rebuilt

    Become immersed in a dynamically adaptive horror story rebuilt in UNREAL® Engine 5 with stunning graphics. The critically acclaimed horror hit is enhanced by movie-like cinematography, refined gameplay mechanics and more.

    Their fate in your hands

    Create your own gripping tale as you take control of nine unique characters portrayed by an all-star cast, including Hayden Panettiere and Brett Dalton, and decide their fate through your choices.

    Terror never looked so good

    Explore a rich and detailed environment that will leave you breathless with every step. With new visual enhancements for PS5 consoles, the original game has been rebuilt from the ground up, utilizing cutting-edge visual technology to bring new life to the nightmare.

    Rebuilt for a new generation

    Discover new collectibles, all-new environments to investigate and re-cut narrative sequences that deepen the mystery further. Through the DualSense® wireless controller, interact with the world like never before and get closer to the action with an all-new third-person camera.

    SURVIVAL

    Until Dawn cast & characters

    Meet the survivors

    The lives of eight people are in your hands. Let's get to know them.

    Joshua Washington

    Movie-loving Josh is the brother of twin sisters Hannah and Beth Washington, who both went missing from their family lodge in Blackwood Mountain after a prank gone wrong during a winter getaway with friends. A year later, Josh, still struggling with his sisters' disappearance, invites the same friends back to the lodge, promising a night they'll never forget.

    Samantha Giddings

    Pacifist Sam is warm, compassionate and has a good relationship with all members of the group. She views the return to the lodge as a chance to catch up with her friends and put the tragic events of the past behind her. Despite her aversion to violence, Sam does not scare easily and is level-headed under pressure.

    Michael Munroe

    Mike is handsome, charismatic and a serial dater with an aversion to commitment. Currently in a relationship with Jessica after recently dumping Emily, he's no stranger to causing friction in the group. However, when things start to spiral out of control, Mike's desire to be seen as a man of action brings out the best of him.

    Emily Davis

    Fashionista Emily's dress sense is as sharp as her tongue. Her motivations for returning to the lodge are driven by a desire to drive a wedge between ex-boyfriend Mike and his new partner – and Emily's close friend – Jessica.

    Christopher Hartley

    With aspirations of becoming an app designer, tech-loving Chris is regarded as the nerd of the group. He's also witty, loyal and intelligent, although his fear of failure means he's unable to confess his true feelings to long-time crush Ashley.

    Ashley Brown

    Booksmart Ashley's overactive imagination is perfectly suited to her dream career as an author, but it also means she has an aversion to anything remotely scary. She has a crush on her study partner Chris, but wrongly believes that the feeling isn't reciprocated.

    Matthew Taylor

    Matt's talents on the football field aren't matched in his academic pursuits, so this gentle giant hopes to make his way to college with a sports scholarship. He is fiercely loyal to his new girlfriend Emily, unaware that he is being used as a pawn in her efforts to get back with Mike.

    Jessica Riley

    Party girl Jessica has a big personality and is highly flirtatious—two traits that apparently led Mike to drop Emily and date her instead. Before this, she and Emily were close friends; ironically, it was Jessica who planned the fateful prank on Hannah Washington to protect Emily's relationship with Mike.

    FATE

    Your survival guide

    Until Dawn gameplay explained

    Discover the features that make Until Dawn a unique and highly replayable horror experience.

    Player control

    Throughout the story you will play as all eight friends. The relationships they have with the other characters and whether they survive until dawn are determined by your narrative choices.

    The Butterfly Effect

    Every choice you make has an impact. Your decisions, large and small, set events in motion that will decide whether characters live or die - but death is not the end, as the game adapts and changes according to the story you create. This creates a complex branching narrative with multiple possible endings.

    The decision is yours

    Prepare to have your morals, reflexes and quick-thinking put to the ultimate test. Make impossible choices, hold your nerve and try to make split-second decisions that could make the difference between life and death.

    Your sixth Sense

    Haptic feedback from the DualSense® wireless controller brings you closer to Until Dawn's world by allowing you to feel approaching footsteps and the characters' shivers, shocks and pounding heartbeats. It also aids in sensing nearby totems - special collectables that offer prophecies of potential futures.

    Until Dawn upgraded

    Horror, enhanced

    Find out how Until Dawn for PS5 consoles improves on key aspects of the PS4® original.

    Scarily good looking

    Rebuilt in UNREAL® Engine 5, the power of PS5 consoles brings new life to a horror classic with realistic lighting and ray-traced shadows. Explore the eerily-lit interiors of the lodge, the oppressive darkness of the mines and moonlight-bathed mountain wilderness in stunning detail.

    Filmic frights

    Revised cinematography, reworked narrative elements and reframed scenes improve the look, flow and emotional impact of the story, while updated character models better convey the mental and physical states of the protagonists.

    Terror from a new perspective

    The fixed camera perspective of the PS4 original is replaced with a third-person camera, allowing you to explore the environments from previously unseen angles. Experience all-new character movement animations and interactions as you explore enhanced and new locations.

    The sound of fear

    Music and sound design has also received a complete overhaul, including reauthored audio and a brand new score from legendary horror composer Mark Korven (The First Omen, The Witch).

    CONSEQUENCES

    How Until Dawn uses innovative PS5 features

    Ultra high-speed SSD

    With seamless scene-to-gameplay transitions made possible by the PS5 console’s ultra high-speed SSD, stay fully immersed in the heart-pumping horror and face your fears without a moment’s respite.

    Adaptive triggers

    Experience the resistance of a firearm’s trigger, pick up objects in the environment, and feel the weight of your decisions through adaptive triggers as you survive the mountain’s horrors.

    Tempest 3D AudioTech

    Pinpoint every breathless whisper, unknown footstep, and chilling scream through 3D audio, as you navigate the darkness relying on each of your senses to stay alive.1

    Stunning visuals

    Rebuilt from the ground up in UNREAL® Engine 5, the power of PS5 consoles brings the horror to life with realistic lighting and ray traced character shadows. Explore the eerily-lit interiors of the lodge, the clawing darkness of the mines, and moonlight-bathed mountain wilderness in stunning detail.

    Haptic feedback

    Feel the footsteps of friends and foes alike intensify with proximity, and every bump and scrape as you claw through the darkness on the run from a killer. From the clicks of a digital camera to the supernatural power of nearby totems, the DualSense® wireless controller’s haptic feedback connects you to your environment like never before.

    13D Audio via built-in TV speakers or analogue/USB stereo headphones.

    DEATH

    Until Dawn FAQs

    Until Dawn for PS5 consoles is rebuilt from the ground-up, utilizing UNREAL® Engine 5 for enhanced visuals as well as making a number of critical changes and upgrades to the camera, animation, cinematography, audio and gameplay.

    Until Dawn is an interactive, narrative driven slasher horror experience. Players take direct control of characters as they explore a mountain lodge, and must make many vital choices and perform life-or-death actions as the gripping story progresses.

    The endings of Until Dawn have hundreds of variations depending on the fates of the eight playable characters.

    Yes. Until Dawn for PS5 consoles has a number of accessibility features not present in the original game, including customizable controls, audio-visual options, settings for Quick Time Events, glint enhancement for easier exploration and more.

    Until Dawn is a single-player game, but can be enjoyed with other people as a cinematic narrative experience where you make important decisions together.

    Until Dawn for PS5 consoles features all of the same talent as the original game.

    Until Dawn for PS5 consoles is developed by Ballistic Moon, and is a rebuilt, enhanced version of the original game created by Supermassive Games.

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    Release:
    3/10/2024
    Publisher:
    Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe
    Genres:
    Horror
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