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Games Like Until Dawn: Choice-Driven Horror

Until Dawn made horror into a film you direct: a group of friends, one long night, and choices and quick reactions that decide who sees morning. These games keep that idea, most of them from the same studio, Supermassive Games, and a few that tell a story of hard choices in their own way.

The games

  1. The Quarry key art: the counselors' faces under a full moon, two shadowy figures with bloodied clawed hands looming over a campfire in a dark pine forest Co-opThe QuarrySupermassive's own follow-up: nine camp counsellors, one night in the woods, and every one of them can die.
  2. Little Hope key art: a young man's face merged with a burning skull and a twig effigy, over an old map of a New England town Co-opThe Dark Pictures Anthology: Little HopeStudents trapped in a fog-bound town that keeps replaying a witch trial, playable with friends.
  3. House of Ashes key art: a woman's face inside a half-skull, set into a sandstone wall carved with ancient reliefs Co-opThe Dark Pictures Anthology: House of AshesSoldiers trapped in a buried temple, hunted by pale creatures in the dark.
  4. The Devil in Me key art: a terrified woman and a man holding an axe before a brick hotel, framed inside a skull over a faded old map Co-opThe Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in MeA film crew lured into a copy of a serial killer's murder hotel: the closest Dark Pictures game to a slasher.
  5. Man of Medan key art: a man's face blended with a skull and a ship at sea, over an old map of the South Pacific Co-opThe Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of MedanDivers on a Second World War ghost ship, the first of the Dark Pictures stories.
  6. The Casting of Frank Stone key art: four young people walk toward a dark mill inside a head silhouette on red, with a film camera, film reel, chains and a bloody blade Co-opThe Casting of Frank StoneSupermassive in the Dead by Daylight world: young filmmakers, a steel mill and a masked killer.
  7. Directive 8020 key art: a dirt-streaked woman in a spacesuit in a dim purple corridor with fleshy growths, beside the title Co-opDirective 8020The newest Dark Pictures game: a crashed colony ship and an alien that copies its crew.
  8. The Walking Dead key art: Lee Everett keeps a hand on Clementine in her cap as walkers close in under a burning orange sky ZombiesThe Walking DeadThe choice-driven story that defined the genre: keep Clementine alive, often with seconds to decide.
  9. Oxenfree key art: a glowing triangular rift hanging in a dark green cave, with two small figures standing below it PsychologicalOxenfreeTeenagers, one night on an island and a ghostly rift; how you talk to friends shapes the ending.
  10. Killer Frequency key art: a gloved hand holding a bloody knife outside the neon-lit KFAM radio station at night, with a missing person poster on the wall Multiple endingsKiller FrequencyA slasher from the other side: talk the callers of a 1987 radio show away from a masked killer.
  11. Scarlet Hollow key art: a frightened blonde young woman in front of a decaying mansion as a veiled figure with glowing eyes reaches toward her PsychologicalScarlet HollowA week in an Appalachian town of cryptids and spirits, where some of the people you meet will not survive your choices.
  12. The Inn-Sanity: a large lit-up hotel at night, wrapped in dark red fog PsychologicalThe Inn-SanityA quarantined hotel whose guests turn into creatures, where one wrong word in a conversation can get you killed.
  13. At Dead Of Night key art: a lit Victorian hotel on a stormy clifftop above the sea at night, with lightning striking the water MysteryAt Dead Of NightLive-action filmed horror: free your friends from a hotel while a psychopath hunts you through it.
  14. Buried key art: a long, dim concrete tunnel lit by ceiling lamps, with the word BURIED in white scratched letters Multiple endingsBuried: An Interactive StoryA logger searches the woods for his missing crew, choosing whom to trust and who lives or dies.
  15. Until Dawn: Rush of Blood key art: a giant fanged, bloody clown face and a cracked doll above a rollercoaster track, with the orange marquee title Action horrorUntil Dawn: Rush of BloodUntil Dawn's own VR spin-off: a horror rollercoaster through seven levels of nightmares, shooting what comes for you.
  16. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR key art: a bloodied, amber-eyed face above a rollercoaster track leading to a fiery gate, two guns raised in the foreground Action horrorThe Dark Pictures: Switchback VRA PS VR2 rollercoaster through four Dark Pictures settings, where you choose which passengers survive.

The closest match is The Quarry, Supermassive's own follow-up. Nine camp counsellors spend the last night of summer camp in the woods, hunted by armed locals and something far worse howling in the dark, and any of them can die for good from one wrong choice. Up to eight friends can share it.

The Dark Pictures Anthology is the same studio's series of shorter, standalone stories, each with five playable characters. Man of Medan puts divers aboard a ghost ship from the Second World War, Little Hope traps students in a fog-bound New England town that keeps replaying a witch trial, House of Ashes drops soldiers into a buried temple where pale creatures hunt, and The Devil in Me lures a film crew into a copy of a serial killer's murder hotel. All four can be played with a friend online, or with up to five people passing the controller in Movie Night. Directive 8020, the newest, takes the formula to space: a colony ship crashes on an alien world where something copies the crew.

The Casting of Frank Stone is Supermassive's story set in the world of Dead by Daylight: young friends making a horror film in an Oregon steel mill walk into the legacy of a masked killer. Like Directive 8020, its reviews are mixed, but its slasher setup is the nearest thing to Until Dawn's first half.

With a PlayStation VR headset, Supermassive's two rail shooters put you in the seat: Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a horror rollercoaster through seven levels of nightmares drawn from the game, and The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR rides through the settings of four Dark Pictures games, letting you choose which fellow passengers survive.

If you want the hard choices without the cinematic slasher, Telltale's The Walking Dead is the one that made choice-driven stories famous: you keep a young girl alive through the zombie apocalypse, often with seconds to decide who lives. Oxenfree is a gentler, eerier night: teenagers at an island party open a ghostly rift, and how you talk to your friends shapes how the night ends. Killer Frequency turns the slasher around: you are a radio host in 1987, and you talk callers away from a masked killer one call at a time.

Four smaller games carry the same weight of choice. Scarlet Hollow is a horror visual novel set over a week in an Appalachian town of cryptids and spirits, where some of the people you meet will not survive what you decide. The Inn-Sanity traps you in a quarantined hotel whose guests are turning into creatures, and one wrong word in a conversation can kill you. At Dead Of Night is filmed in live action, like an interactive horror film: Maya searches a hotel for her tied-up friends while its psychopath owner hunts her. Buried tells its story in text, photographs and sound: a logger wakes in the woods with his crew missing and decides whom to trust and who lives or dies.

Start with The Quarry if you want more of exactly the same, Little Hope or House of Ashes for a shorter evening with friends, and The Walking Dead for choices that hurt.

Questions

What is the closest game to Until Dawn?

The Quarry, from the same studio: teenagers, one night in the woods, a mix of human and monstrous threats, and choices that decide who survives.

Which Until Dawn-like games can I play with friends?

The Quarry can be shared by up to eight players, and the four Dark Pictures Anthology stories can be played with a friend online or with up to five people on one sofa in Movie Night; Directive 8020 has Movie Night too.

Who made Until Dawn?

Supermassive Games made the original in 2015, and also The Quarry, The Dark Pictures Anthology and The Casting of Frank Stone. The 2024 remake of Until Dawn is by Ballistic Moon.

Are the Dark Pictures games connected?

They share a host, the Curator, but each tells a standalone story, so they can be played in any order.

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