Until Dawn

One year after her sister Melanie vanished, Clover travels to the remote Glore Valley with her ex-boyfriend Max, best friend Nina, friend Megan, and Nina's boyfriend Abe. Their last stop before heading deep into the valley is a gas station where Melanie was last seen — locals warn them away and speak of an old mining disaster — but the group press on. They settle into an abandoned visitor center for the night, intending to use it as a base while searching for clues.

As night falls, a masked killer — clown-ish mask, pickaxe — begins hunting them through the visitor center and surrounding woods. One by one the group is murdered in brutal slasher fashion. Then the night resets. They wake in the visitor center, alive and uninjured, with a vague sense of déjà vu. They notice a large hourglass in the main room flipping to begin the night, their own missing-person posters on the wall, and small changes that confirm they are reliving the same evening. They are trapped in a time loop, hunted each reset by a different kind of threat.

On subsequent loops they discover more rules. In one iteration, Megan becomes possessed — her body contorted by an unseen force — and dies grotesquely. Clover is dragged to a decrepit house where an elderly valley woman tells her she can either survive the night or become part of it, then gases her before disintegrating to dust. Each loop adds another signature to the guestbook and more posters: evidence they have already died many times. They realize they have a finite number of resets before the valley claims them permanently.

Deeper into the visitor center, the group finds exhibits about a mining disaster that killed over 1,100 people, and warnings about wendigos — cannibalistic creatures tied to the mine. In one loop, Max finds a videotape: a man trapped in the same building, reliving the night over thirteen loops, slowly going insane before transforming into a feral wendigo creature. Dr. Hill — a psychiatrist from the original game's mythology — appears on the tape explaining he has been monitoring the ordeal. The group realize they are his latest experiment.

Clover contacts Hill by radio. He claims there is a way out: one of them must die permanently while the others survive the night, satisfying the valley's curse. He tempts Clover further by hinting she might see Melanie if she meets him alone in the woods. An argument erupts — some want to follow Hill's rule and sacrifice someone; others refuse, believing this is exactly what he wants.