The motion controls were dropped when it became a PlayStation 4 game. The game was originally planned as a first-person game for the PlayStation 3's motion controller PlayStation Move. Players explore the environment from a third-person perspective and find clues that may help solve the mystery. All playable characters can survive or die, depending on the choices made.
The game features a hyperlink cinema-esque for its multilinear narratives and butterfly effect system in which players must make choices that may change the story. Players assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mountain when their lives are threatened. Until Dawn is a 2015 interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4.