This morning I left my torpid apartment to get coffee, sniffed the restless wind, noted with approval the darkness gathering under the trees, and thought: Finally, summer is over. Finally, we leave the disgusting, sunny months behind. Finally, we leave behind everything green and good, and return to the time of monsters.
Supermassive Games and Behaviour Interactive must have gotten the message, too. They've just released a demo of their upcoming horror game The Casting Of Frank Stone, in which you play as cop Sam Green, who investigates the disappearance of a child. The search leads you to the Cedar Hills Steel Mill, “where chilling secrets await, revealing a truth far more sinister than anyone could have anticipated.” What I'm looking forward to: QTEs during escape sequences, branching choices that get people killed, and general adult content appropriate for the arrival of Halloween.
Revealed in December, The Casting Of Frank Stone is a single-player game that, from what I've seen so far, takes Until Dawn's playable B-movie format and applies it to Dead by Daylight's horror multiverse. “This demo serves as a prologue to the main game, delivering a deeply engaging segment filled with twists, turns, and hidden Easter eggs that Dead by Daylight fans will be eager to discover,” the Steam page explains.
“While the demo’s progression doesn’t carry over to the full game, it offers a unique opportunity to experiment with the game’s mechanics and explore various outcomes and secrets by testing different paths and choices,” he continues. The full game, which releases next week on September 3, features a young cast and sees you pursuing a serial killer whose crimes “spawn horrors beyond comprehension.”
The launch of The Casting Of Frank Stone follows massive layoffs at Behaviour and Supermassive, with both companies blaming the decision on “difficult” working conditions for the industry. Supermassive is also bringing Until Dawn to PC and is working on Little Nightmares 3. Behaviour's current focus seems to be on putting every horror-related character ever imagined into Dead By Daylight's woodchipper.