It makes you wonder: If the concept had worked, would we remember Until Dawn as fondly? Probably not—it would have been buggy and unfocused. But the idea of an open-world Blackwood Mountain, where the Wendigo learns your patterns and the sun sets in real time, remains the most terrifying horror game never made.
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