Sony and Ballistic Moon Announce Until Dawn Remake Launch Date
Sony and Ballistic Moon have confirmed that the remake of Until Dawn will officially launch on October 4 for PS5 and PC. A remake of the 2015 horror game that Supermassive Games originally developed, Until Dawn tells the story of a group of friends stuck on Blackwood Mountain and forced to make tough decisions as they attempt to survive a terrible night.
If you’re looking to see just how much of a difference there is between the game, you can check out the trailer below showing off a comparison between the games.
For the remake, Ballistic Moon said that its intention has not been to alter the events of the game, but to give it instead a “cinematic update” while also offering players a “more intimate experience” through the enhanced visuals. Remade entirely in Unreal Engine 5, Until Dawn has updated character models, environments, interactable props, visual effects, and animations alongside artistic changes to create a more atmospheric horror story.
You can also expect the game to be more gruesome, as the developer says modern pre-rendering simulation techniques have allowed it to create “realistic real-time fluids” and more convincing injuries for the cast.
The one big change that players can expect is a reworked prologue, as Ballistic Moon has made adjustments to the narrative pacing of the game’s opening to give specific characters more screen time. There’ll also be new collectibles to discover in the form of Hunger Totems–these add extra context and detail to the world of Until Dawn–and there’ll be a range of accessibility settings to tinker with.
October is shaping up to be the month of horror-game-remake showdowns, as Until Dawn will be launching mere days before Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 arrives on October 8. Fans of the horror genre can also look forward to A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead (October 17), RetroRealms: Halloween and its groovy characters (October 18), the Shadows of the Damned remaster (October 31), and a new Indie Horror Showcase from DreadXP and The Mix on October 24.