Until Dawn, the game that kickstarted a specific style of horror games with multiple choices, story branches and character deaths, is getting a sequel.
Revealed at the June 2026 State Of Play broadcast, Until Dawn 2 has a new developer at the helm. Instead of Supermassive Games, it’s PlayStation Studios’ Firesprite Games that are developing the sequel. This team previously released the PS VR2 game Horizon: Call Of The Mountain.
Until Dawn 2 is a whole new story with a new setting and new set of characters (aside from Peter Stormare reprising his role as Dr Hill). This time, you’re following a group of ghost hunters that has been faking their supernatural content. Now they landed a TV network deal and gets shipped to some abandoned tropical island and as it turns out, there is real horror lurking there. The group has to survive… until dawn.
Whether you’re here for the character drama (there’s a web of romance going on between this group it looks like) or excited to see their gory deaths by simply not pressing any button prompts, Until Dawn 2 has all of that, and then some. According to the PlayStation Blog, the relationship between characters, and how you manage them, will also cause ripple effects, or rather a Butterfly Effect, to the branching narrative.
Supermassive Games has since evolved the Until Dawn formula into a series of horror game with some interactivity and multilinear storytelling. The Dark Pictures Anthology, now in five games strong with this year’s Directive 8020, and they also made The Quarry, which introduced Movie Mode where players can just treat the game as a pure movie, no input required.
Until Dawn 2 will be out in 2027.