What are the best games like Until Dawn to play today? Playing Supermassive Games' Until Dawn for the first time in 2015 (or 2024 on PC) was an unforgettable experience, and story-heavy, interactive fiction as a genre has shown no signs of slowing down. Fortunately, finding another game like Until Dawn is a fairly fruitful exercise, you just need to work out what drew you to the game itself.
You might want to dip your toe into the best horror games, for example, emphasizing terror and suspense over the storytelling element. If you managed to work out what was going on ahead of the big reveal, perhaps you'll enjoy leaning into the best mystery games. Maybe you just love the vibe of Supermassive Games' world, in which case you'll be glad to know the first game in the second season of The Dark Pictures Anthology is on its way.
To accommodate for the wide range of reasons you might be looking for a game like Until Dawn, our list doesn't just focus on strictly spooky games. We've branched out a bit and tried to find games that embody its spirit in various ways. If you're just after a pure thrill, though, do keep an eye on our list of upcoming horror games: it looks like it might be a bumper year.
The best games like Until Dawn, starting with...
10. The Dark Pictures anthology
Developer: Supermassive Games
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
It's such a joy to finish a game and find a huge treasure trove of games just like it from the exact same developer. If you loved Until Dawn and your primary concern is finding a game that does pretty much the same thing, but in various scenarios, the Dark Pictures anthology is the answer to all your prayers. Familiar horror tropes get a creative twist, and it'll feel just like you're playing your favorite film from behind the scenes.
The first season includes four incredibly tense games inspired by different horror genres, giving you a range of frightening flavors to choose from. Man of Medan features pirates and ghost ships, while Little Hope paints a foggy picture of a cursed colonial town. House of Ashes somehow combines a modern-day US armed forces invasion with a cursed temple full of vampires, and The Devil In Me is a classic in the "naive people go to film a documentary and get tortured in a remote location" genre. All our Dark Pictures anthology news, reviews, and opinions can be found here.
9. Still Wakes the Deep
Developer: The Chinese Room
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
As far as psychological horror games go, you can't do much better than 2024's Still Wakes the Deep. The game takes the player on a chaotic journey through a claustrophobic, collapsing oil rig that shifts and changes as sanity loosens and otherworldly horrors creep up from the decks below. Sections of incredible tension, where unseen and unimaginable concepts seep into your mind, are countered with grisly and surreal head-on collisions with Lovecraftian tentacled violence. What's not to love?
There's no combat to speak of, just exploration and, crucially, escape. You'll be fighting for your life and the lives of your friends, who seem to be picked off one by one whenever you're not there to save them. Behind the scenes, some great Scottish voice acting talent is on show here, as well as a neatly crafted escape-room world that looks different every time you turn around. You can read our Still Wakes the Deep review here.
8. Oxenfree
Developer: Night School Studio
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS
Where Until Dawn saw teenagers trapped on a remote snowy mountain, Oxenfree sees them stranded on a remote island trapped with an unseen force. You play as blue-haired Alex, who's on vacation with some pals and her new stepbrother, to explore and test a local myth that if you tune a radio to certain frequencies, you'll hear ghostly voices.
Without spoiling the story any further, the heartbeat of Oxenfree is learning more about the island's history and the complex relationships between its cast. It's as much a story about growing up as it is about scares, and the art direction is sublime. With its pastel hues and frosted lighting, this is a world you'll actually want to get lost in. Just like Until Dawn, this is a game that expertly crafts a tense atmosphere - which we discuss in more depth in our Oxenfree review.
7. Mundaun
Developer: Hidden Fields
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PC
If your favorite thing about Until Dawn was the sense of dread that lurked around every corner, your next game should be Mundaun. This creepy, hand-drawn horror is a surprise from start to finish – eerie, surreal, and packed with sinister secrets. Exploring a mysterious alpine region twisted in mind-bending ways, you'll uncover dark lore, fill your pockets with everything you see, and battle for survival against folkloric beasts of old. We've compared it to films like Midsommar, The Lighthouse, or anything by Guillermo del Toro.
A little more involved than an interactive story but not a full-blown survival game, Mundaun perfectly occupies the space in between. The player steps into the well-worn shoes of Curdin as he tries to piece together a strange mystery. His grandfather recently died in a barn fire, and has since been buried, yet when Curdin visits the ruins, he finds a charred corpse and an empty grave. Traversing the Swiss wilderness in search of answers is not for the faint of heart.
6. Telltale’s The Walking Dead
Developer: Telltale Games
Platforms: PC (Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X, PS4, Nintendo Switch
Ah, Telltale. One of the ill-fated studios' seminal hits was The Walking Dead, a choose-your-own-adventure-style narrative set in the comic book's universe. The first season was released in 2012 and introduced a completely new cast, including Clementine, a young girl who the player must protect as the apocalypse ravages American cities around you.
The writers dance from brutally gut-wrenching decisions to quietly emotional moments of reflection with Clementine, and the resulting play of light and shade fashioned one of the strongest adventure narratives of the last decade. The game's fourth and final season ended this year, making this the perfect time to go back and live The Walking Dead's story again. You can read our The Walking Dead game review for more information!
5. Indika
Developer: Odd Meter
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X, PC
If a psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, nun-based horror is what you're after, Indika has you covered. Fans of Until Dawn will appreciate its winding narrative and overall atmosphere of terror and may be pleasantly surprised by its more inventive moments. In our feature, we summed it up by saying that "you're unlikely to play anything as creatively weird as this for a long time to come."
You'll play as a young Russian nun having a crisis of faith in her place in a 19th-century monastery. A social outcast at the outset, Indika is all but alone, aside from playing host to the literal devil who has taken up residency in her head. As you progress, you'll find meditations on meaningless tasks, bizarre puzzles, pixel art backstories, and learn to pull yourself through a psychotic break with the power of prayer.
4. The Casting of Frank Stone
Developer: Supermassive Games
Platforms: PC, Xbox Series X, PS5
Surprise! Dead by Daylight had a kid with a Supermassive game, and it's a boy named Frank. The Casting of Frank Stone is a first-person cinematic horror game, combining "massive amounts of documentation and secrets" about the lore of Behaviour Interactive's asymmetrical horror game with the style, form, and branching narrative flow of games like Until Dawn.
Playing through a revolving ensemble cast of characters across three timelines, The Casting of Frank Stone has the Supermassive seal of quality. Each timeline overlaps, twisting when you think it will turn, keeping players on their toes as they uncover the legend of Frank Stone - and whatever The Entity might be, exactly. It's certainly a richer experience if you happen to be a DBD fan, as it turns out the whole game is a very poignant comment on its multiplayer counterpart.
3. As Dusk Falls
Developer: INTERIOR/NIGHT
Platforms: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC
If the couch co-op decision-making is your favorite thing about Until Dawn, you'll devour As Dusk Falls. The cinematic mystery sees solo or co-op players play through an ensemble cast as two families meet in a roadside motel. Mystery and drama ensues, and with six endings to collect, there's plenty of replay value in As Dusk Falls.
It's one of the best games like Until Dawn for anyone craving another chance to decide the fate of a host of vibrant characters, though as far as scares go, this one's more of an interactive drama than all-out spookfest.
2. Detroit: Become Human
Developer: Quantic Dream
Platforms: PS4, PC
Quantic Dream has been perfecting its brand of branching narratives for years now, and Detroit: Become Human is its most recent work. The game is set in a future where androids are as vital a fixture in humans' daily lives as smartphones, but the plot grapples with a classic science fiction question: Can robots feel the same emotions as humans?
Like Until Dawn, each character is vulnerable to permadeath, and player choice dramatically affects where the tale ends. This is sci-fi and not a ghost story, but if you play your cards right, you might stumble across a creepy chapter in a house that borrows heavily from horror cinema tropes. As we mention in our Detroit: Become Human review, even if you don't, though, this game is a satisfying interactive drama.
1. The Quarry
Developer: Supermassive Games
Platforms: Xbox Series X, PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One
Imagine Friday the 13th but with werewolves instead of Jason. That's the vibe Until Dawn developer Supermassive creates in The Quarry, which is perhaps its best game since. A gaggle of gossipy teenagers finds themselves stuck at summer camp after weeks of counseling the youngins, and now, they're the ones who need to start running and jumping through all manner of proverbial hoops if they want to make it out alive.
The task is simple: survive the night. Only that's way harder than it sounds since the forest around their cozy campgrounds is teeming with danger. The Quarry is Supermassive at its finest, plunging a memorable ensemble cast into a mysterious, eerie, branching narrative adventure that can be enjoyed solo or with friends in Cinema Mode. For more details, you can read our The Quarry review.
Want more scary stories? Why not check out our picks of the best survival horror games to play next? Or, if you are excited about Supermassive's Dark Pictures Anthology, Directive 8020, read our list of all the new games heading our way this year and beyond.
