PS4: 10 Best Console Exclusives You Need To Play

5. Until Dawn

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It's not often that a mainstream triple-A title manages to surprise us, but Until Dawn managed it. Prior to release, it came across as an overly cheesy, predictable teen-slasher flick - and it was! But in an endearing way. All those dumb decisions the ditzy protagonists made in films like Friday The 13th and Scream were now yours to control - and yours to mess up.

Because, as you'll learn, it's not as easy as you'd imagine. When there's a serial killer stalking you and your friends, how would you react? Would you run, hide, fight? Would you sacrifice your group to save your own skin? Until Dawn forced you to make fast, difficult decisions, and this heightened the tension to an almost unbearable degree.

The game came packing a surprisingly lengthy campaign too - it twisted and turned through many pivotal forks in the road, creating dozens of different outcomes that rewarded additional playthroughs. Will everyone live? Will everyone die? Who knows.

As long as you can live with the consequences of potentially getting innocent people killed, you'll find Until Dawn a satisfying - and very gruesome - experience.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.