The Casting of Frank Stone

The Casting of Frank Stone is a dark and twisted horror title that will thrill you. The graphics are fantastic and the audio is chilling. Furthermore, the protagonists add a layer of spice to this brilliant cinematic twist. If you like the freedom to explore, this game may annoy you. The cinematic and linear-focused areas keep you on track. However, the branching storylines and plot twists expand the action repeatedly.

The story of The Casting of Frank Stone is engaging, if a little half-baked during a first playthrough, but with the ability to replay certain sections you can fill in those gaps. Just don’t bother to turn off the lights with this one - scares are lacking.

The Casting of Frank Stone isn't a bad video game, it's just another lazy product that follows a path that Supermassive Games has charted, and never abandoned, over the past decade. Not even the screenplay helps him much, with characters that don't shine and situations that don't make the gamer uncomfortable, incapable of making him feel tension. It's a horror that isn't scary, that doesn't manage to overcome the boundaries of a self-imposed teen slasher, but that lives in a fascinating narrative universe, where there was room for maneuver to write something more aware and lively.

The brightest things about this game were when it was pitting the cast against the supernatural but these things are few and far between and take a LONG time to get to. This is an extremely slow burn, and since the characters feel paper thin; there just isn’t a lot to grab onto here. The Casting of Frank Stone has tons of references for Dead by Daylight fans but the lack of scares and likeable characters makes this one best left on the hook.

By now, those who have played Supermassive's interactive horror "movies" since 2015 know what they're getting with The Casting of Frank Stone. If you only want to play the next great version of that formula, this isn't it. But for Dead By Daylight fans looking to fill out their lore bibles, prospective fans looking for an introduction to the multiplayer game, or horror obsessives who are ready to carve pumpkins and dive into a pile of crispy orange leaves, The Casting of Frank Stone is a flawed but fun horror romp just in time for spooky season, the likes of which Supermassive and I may be destined to experience together forever.