SLASHER flick meets interactive fiction – it can end only in tears, right? Yet after a protracted, troubled gestation, Until Dawn emerges a far more interesting proposition than its elevator pitch would dare suggest. Originally conceived as motion Until Dawn is a horrible game. It got me with a cheap trick in the final seconds - a character I had kept alive through trials and tribulations fell due to a particularly annoying game mechanic. And they were gone, mere moments before the somewhat hopeful Until Dawn will not pass the classic definition of video game for some players because the player is rarely the one driving the action and tends to experience a story almost entirely created by the development team at Supermassive Games, only occasionally Teen horror slasher-style PS4 exclusive Until Dawn was very hot last month on YouTube. YouTube has revealed the top ten trending games for the month of August. The list is made up of all sorts of game genres. The placements are based on the number of This is one of those PS4 exclusive that you don't want to sleep on. Until Dawn may turn into something you'll find too enticing to put down. The storyline is something that I rather not touch on upon games such as this, especially where the narrative bulk While we’re still waiting to learn about Quantic Dream’s first PlayStation 4 project (rumors whispers of a reveal at Paris Games Week in late October), Sony has just released a fairly similar (albeit horror themed) kind of title: Until Dawn by .
Until Dawn is a narrative driven game that genuinely feels like you’re in control. You alternate between playing as 8 different teens who to return to the secluded cabin in the woods where two of their friends went missing the previous year. It’s a Until Dawn might be the first big surprise of the 2015 ‘holiday’ season. It’s weird. It’s clunky. In a lot of ways you could even say that it’s objectively bad. But it’s also amazing and it’s one of my favourite games of 2015 so far. The act of paying homage can be a truly great form of artistic expression. It can also be used to excuse a whole manner of misbehaviour, particularly when it comes to the horror genre. The latest game to be born out of adulation of classic survival horror Whether you like it or not, and despite what it says about our ever-changing industry, websites like YouTube offer a telling look into which games are hot, and which games are not. Indeed, YouTube's even started publishing its top ten 'trending' titles for .