Unfortunately, the girls found their fate at the hands of something sinister that lives in those dark, snowy, northern Canada mountains, and whatever it is, it now has eight more victims to set its sights upon. The premise that’s set up as the game kicks off is perfect: after twin sisters disappear (and are presumed dead) due to a trick their friends played on them during a winter retreat, the eight remaining co-eds return to the girl’s family getaway home one year later, where their surviving brother is holding a party to honor his sisters’ memory and reunite the group of friends. As much ground as the genre has indeed covered, gaming has shown little effort in tapping into an idea that’s been a cornerstone of the movie industry for at least as long as I’ve been alive: the B-grade teen slasher flick. It’s impressive, then, that Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn can give me an experience unlike anything else I’ve played up until this point. From jump-scare zombie survival to nightmarish psychological torture to studies in the darkest depravities of mankind, horror-themed video games have touched on a wide variety of topics and put players in a whole host of do-or-die situations.
For a genre that’s been around for only about half of the time the gaming industry itself has at this point, horror games have done a lot during their relatively short lifetime.
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