There are no bubbling volcanoes, arid deserts, or vast oceans to conquer, but the streets of downtown Manhattan prove perilous enough. The first Marvel’s Spider-Man was hard to top, but incredibly, Insomniac pulled it off in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. When isolation stops you from spending an actual night cooped up with friends somewhere, why not do it in Until Dawn, instead? Minus the Wendigos, obviously.
The gameplay in Until Dawn is mostly made of quicktime events and, much like in Life is Strange, the butterfly effect is employed throughout the story to ensure that the player is constantly aware of the consequences of their rash actions - something which raises the stakes of the game and makes for a much more intriguing trawl through the woods than your usual horror fare. Often billed as one of the most inventive survival horror games around, this 2015 hit from Supermassive Games is the story of one night spent in the snowy Blackwood Mountains, where you switch in and out of playing as eight different characters all of whom must band together to escape from the varying, mysterious terrors crashing their winter gathering.
