Until Dawn is a 2015 interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mountain when their lives are threatened. The game features a butterfly effect system in which players must make choices that may change the story. All playable characters can survive or die, depending on the choices made. Players explore the environment from a third-person perspective and find clues that may help solve the mystery. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Allison, Tanine. “Losing control: Until Dawn as interactive movie.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 18, no. 3 (2020): 275-300.
Powell, Andrew S. “The Musical Butterfly Effect in Until Dawn.” Journal of Sound and Music in Games 1, no. 4 (2020): 22-44.
Waldie, Rebecca. ““You’re a Hunter, Bro”: Representations of Masculinity in Until Dawn.” Masculinities in Play (2018): 71-91.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Cowen, André. “Wendigo, vampires and Lovecraft: Intertextual monstrosity and cultural otherness in video games.” Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 16, no. 1-2 (2023): 115-131.
Welsh, Margaret R. “The Purpose of the Film-Based Horror Game: Filmic and Ludic Conventions.” Bowdoin Journal of Cinema, vol. i, may 2021.