Highlights
- Until Dawn is coming to PS5 and PC with upgraded mechanics and Unreal Engine 5 features.
- The remake includes new collectibles, sound design, and an overhauled prologue.
- PlayStation exclusives like Until Dawn coming to PC highlights a trend driven by strategy, not coincidence.
Once a bloody and horrifying PS4 exclusive, Until Dawn is finally making the next-gen leap onto the PS5 and PC on Oct. 4 with a laundry list of updates.
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According to PlayStation.Blog, the remake will reportedly not “alter the events of that fateful night,” but only improve its mechanics and cinematics with Unreal Engine 5’s ray-tracing, rendering, and general graphical power over the original’s engine.
Returning players are in for a treat with new collectibles, totems, an overhauled prologue, improved motion capture, sound design, and modern camera controls.
In other words, everything will look and sound prettier as you somehow fail to protect every character.
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The original game was a testament to the PS4’s technical prowess, even incorporating the controller’s ability to detect slight movements into the “Don’t Move” mechanic, where a twitch could mean life or death.
The remake features a teased alternative “Stay Calm” feature that uses “third party peripherals that do not feature a gyroscope or for players who prefer a different challenge.”
With Until Dawn joining the long line of PlayStation exclusives making their way to PC, this release highlights a growing trend that few would have believed possible 10 years ago.
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Horizon Zero Dawn‘s PC port started the avalanche in 2020 and has since influenced titles like Insomniac’s Spiderman and Santa Monica Studio’s God of War and God of War: Ragnarok, among others, but this policy change is not done out of Sony’s good heart.
Though it takes at least 2–3 years for a PlayStation exclusive to come to PC, it eventually does, and that seems to be more design than coincidence. Sony CEO Herman Hulst’s “Strategic Approach” is to let PC players get a game, and then assume they’re “going to be very interested in playing, for example, sequels on the PlayStation platform.”
Suppose Until Dawn‘s Remaster becomes your favorite game on PC and suddenly a sequel is announced. You either buckle and get a PS5 or wait a few years.
Corporate politics aside, we can only be glad that Until Dawn’s remaster on PC and PS5 will scare more people to hell and back.
With preorders starting Aug. 21, it remains to be seen if those who have already finished the game once deem it worthy of a brand-new purchase.
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