During a party at her lodge on Blackwood Mountain, a cruel prank causes Hannah Washington to run into the woods. Hannah's twin sister Beth finds her, but the two are pursued by a flamethrower-wielding stranger, resulting in them falling off a cliff's edge. No bodies are found by the police and the sisters are declared missing. A year later, Hannah and Beth's brother Josh invites the group from the previous party – Hannah's friend Sam Giddings, Josh's friend Chris Hartley, Chris' mutual love interest Ashley Brown, new couple Emily Davis and Matt Taylor, Emily's ex-boyfriend Mike Munroe, and Mike's new girlfriend Jessica Riley – back to the lodge.
The gameplay is mainly a combination of cutscenes and third-person exploration. Players control the characters in a linear environment and find clues and items. Players can also collect totems, which give players a precognition of what may happen in the game's narrative. An in-game system keeps track of all of the story clues and secrets that players have discovered, even across multiple playthroughs. Action sequences feature mostly quick time events (QTE). One type of QTE involves hiding from a threat by holding the controller as still as possible when a "Don't Move" prompt appears.
Source: Wikipedia, "Until Dawn", available under the CC-BY-SA License.
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