Until Dawn

Until Dawn is an interactive drama survival horror adventure video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. It was originally scheduled to be released for PlayStation 3 and feature PlayStation Move support, but in August 2014 the game was re-introduced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive title and was released worldwide in August 2015.

Set in Western Canada, Until Dawn centers around a group of eight teenagers who decide to vacation for a night in a cabin on the fictional Blackwood Mountain, exactly one year after the disappearance of two girls, the twin sisters of a member of their group. Shortly after arriving, the gang find themselves under attack by a psychopath, and must attempt to survive until sunrise. Throughout the adventure, players alternate between all eight characters, making critical decisions as the story advances which drastically affects the game's outcome, leading to hundreds of different scenarios.

Plot

On 2 February 2014, 7 friends Michael ("Mike") (Brett Dalton), Samantha ("Sam") (Hayden Panettiere), Chris (Noah Fleiss), Ashley ("Ash") (Galadriel Stineman), Jessica ("Jess") (Meaghan Martin), Matt (Jordan Fisher) and Emily ("Em") (Nichole Bloom) celebrate their winter getaway at the Blackwood Pines lodge, owned by mutual friends Josh Washington (Rami Malek) and his twin sisters, Hannah and Beth (Ella Lentini), located in Blackwood Mountain, in the Canadian Rockies, in Alberta, Canada. Mike, Ashley, Emily, Jess and Matt trick Hannah into taking her shirt off for Mike while they hide. They then come out of hiding, embarrassing Hannah and causing her to flee into the woods. As Beth follows, they are hunted by an unknown pursuer that corners them to a cliff, where they both fall to their deaths and are never seen again.

A year later, the group are invited again by Josh back to the lodge for reconciliation and to put the past behind them. Now, Mike and Jess are in a relationship, as are Matt and Emily. As they arrive, Emily and Jess bicker, with Jess deciding to go with Mike to stay at the guest cabin, while Emily and Matt go back to retrieve Emily's bag at a cable car station. After Jess and Mike arrive at the cabin, Jess is taken by an unknown figure and Mike pursues them to a mine, either finding Jess dead or badly injured before the mine elevator beneath her collapses. Mike continues through, following a Stranger, and enters a sanatorium and learns about an incident in 1952 where 30 workers were caved-in. Meanwhile, Chris and Ashley are attacked by a masked Psycho, who ties Ashley and Josh into a sawblade deathtrap. He forces Chris to choose to save Ashley or Josh, but Josh is bisected and killed regardless of Chris's choice. Sam is stalked by the Psycho and is knocked unconscious or escapes into a workshop. As Mike returns to the cabin to find Sam, Chris and Ashley are strapped to chairs, where the Psycho forces Chris to either shoot himself or Ashley with a blanked gun in another deathtrap, being stopped by Mike and Sam. The Psycho is revealed to be an unstable and deranged Josh, blaming his friends for causing his sisters' disappearances and had faked his death. While he confirms having set up the traps, he denies presumably killing Jess as he never wanted to kill. Mike, in disbelief, ties up Josh and leaves him.

Meanwhile, Emily and Matt head to a radio tower, contacting a ranger who will send rescue helicopters when the storm subsides. The tower collapses into the mine when she and Matt are attacked by a figure. Matt either escapes and ventures deeper into the mines, is killed by a humanoid creature or falls off a cliff during an earlier encounter with a herd of deer. Emily explores the mines, finding Beth's head and Hannah's personal effects, realizing that Hannah had survived. She encounters the Stranger, who helps her escape from the creatures. In her escape, Emily is killed or returns to the lodge and tells the others of the creature and Beth.

The Stranger (Larry Fessenden) then arrives at the cabin and reveals himself and explains that the mountain was cursed by a First Nations tribe because people were destroying nature in the area. The humanoid creatures, Wendigos, humans who resorted to cannibalism or those possessed into one, have hard skin and severe burning will kill them and release the evil spirits. Chris and the Stranger search for Josh only to find that he has disappeared, and the Stranger is then decapitated by a Wendigo. Chris retreats to the cabin, and is either killed by the Wendigos, gets back to the lodge, or is left to die by Ashley if he tried to shoot her earlier. Emily is bitten by the Wendigo, the group discovers this and debates on leaving her or shooting her, fearing the Wendigo bites are infectious. Either way, Mike goes to the sanatorium to find Josh, who has the cable car keys, venturing deeper and finds that the 1952 miners were turned into Wendigos, trapped in the sanatorium. After accidentally freeing the miners, they chase Mike throughout and he is forced to blow up the sanatorium. Meanwhile, after Sam and others find out about the Wendigos from the Stranger's journal, they find Mike and warn him. Ashley and Chris can be lured and killed by a Wendigo. Mike and Sam can learn that Hannah became a Wendigo when she ate Beth to survive if they explore the area and find Hannah's notebook. Mike and Sam find Josh in the mines, suffering from severe hallucinations of his sisters. As Sam goes back to the lodge, Mike and Josh are ambushed by a Wendigo. If the player found enough clues about Hannah, Josh recognizes the Wendigo as Hannah, who proceeds to drag him off. If not, Hannah kills Josh by brutally squeezing his head.

Meanwhile, if Jess and/or Matt are still alive, they regroup and attempt to flee Blackwood Mountain, being pursued by a Wendigo. Mike and Sam return to the lodge to meet with the other survivors, only to find that the Wendigos had broken in. The survivors freeze, knowing that Wendigos can only sense movement. A fight suddenly breaks out between the Wendigos, with one being thrown at the fireplace, breaking a gas pipe which causes a leak. Mike eventually breaks a light bulb and Sam uses the electricity switches to ignite the gas, exploding the lodge and killing the Wendigos. The remaining survivors regroup as helicopters descend near the lodge ready to pick them up to take them away for interviewing.

Ending

Depending on the player's actions, Sam and/or Mike and any other survivors can die before or while setting the lodge ablaze, but nevertheless the Wendigos are killed.

As the credits roll, those who did not survive have their death scenes replayed with respective times of death, followed by interviews with scenes of the police interrogation of the survivors. The police are warned by the survivors of what is within the mines. If Josh survived, he is shown eating the Stranger's head and has transformed into a Wendigo. If at least one other friend survived, Josh is discovered by the police and he attacks them. If nobody else survived, Josh looks at the screen.

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