Why Until Dawn PS5 and PC Remake Leaks Have Sparked Until Dawn 2 Speculation
Spoiler Warning: The following article features spoilers for not just Until Dawn but also the Until Dawn remake.
Further leaks of the PlayStation 5 and PC remake of Until Dawn have appeared online and sparked speculation over a potenial sequel to the fan-favorite horror game.
Until Dawn originally launched in 2015 but its remake from Ballistic Moon arrives tomorrow, October 4. Some fans obtained a copy early, however, and while one player already shared the revamped opening of the game, essentially the entire thing has now leaked online.
The Until Dawn remake has many changes previously announced, such as revised cinematography that uses a combination of fixed and over-the-shoulder camera views, new accessibility and usability settings such as an alternative to the Don’t Move mechanic, and, now revealed via these leaks, some even more significant changes too.
Until Dawn on PS5 and PC — and final spoiler warning before we divulge these changes — features not just a remade opening but new ending scenes too.
Reddit user crawplays shared the post-credit scenes, below, which add new endings and a potential sequel tease. Until Dawn is a horror game where all eight main characters can live, die, or anything in between, and these two scenes come at the end of both Josh and Sam’s “good” endings particularly.
Josh’s is the smaller of the two and clears up some of the ambiguity surrounding his ending in the original Until Dawn. While his story perhaps had the most tragic end, with even his positive outcome seeing him taken by his sister turned spindly murdering monster, the remake puts a definitively more hopeful spin on things.
A cutscene shows Josh, played by Rami Malek, survive the wendigo encounter while a voiceover from Doctor Hill, the therapist who speaks with him and the player between each chapter, talks of Josh finally finding redemption.
The larger of the two scenes is what some players believe sets up a sequel, however. It’s the first scene not set within the single night the rest of Until Dawn takes place in, instead showing Sam, played by Hayden Panettiere, years later.
Aptly waking up at dawn in her Los Angeles apartment, with medicine and a book about myths on her bedside table, Sam swipes to unlock her phone and blood smears across the screen. She opens her palm and sees blood trickling down from a nasty scar on her arm that doesn’t quite appear to be real. Following a knock at the door and further wipes at her arm, a voice from behind her whispers “Sam” before the scene cuts to black.
Original developer Supermassive Games hasn’t otherwise indicated a sequel is on the way and is plenty busy with its Dark Pictures Anthology games. While it’s released several of these in the years since Until Dawn arrived, alongside a full spiritual sequel in The Quarry, perhaps none have been as well received as Until Dawn itself.
The PS5 and PC version was announced in January 2024 as the latest in a long line of ports and remasters from Sony. Ballistic Moon also announced “significant” lay-offs at the studio in September.
In our 7/10 review of the original game, IGN said: “Until Dawn is an inconsistent horror game, but it’s still a heck of a lot of fun.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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