Until Dawn 2 Launches 28 janvier 2027, With Story by Dispatch Studio AdHoc

Firesprite Games has dated Until Dawn 2 for PlayStation 5 on 28 janvier 2027, and confirmed that AdHoc Studio, the developer behind Dispatch, partnered on the game’s story. Creative director Stu Tilley announced the release date, the collaboration, pre-order details, and a Digital Deluxe Edition in a PlayStation.Blog post published on 3 septembre 2026.

The announcement names AdHoc Studio as the story partner on the project. “We’ve partnered with our friends at AdHoc Studio – the brilliant minds behind the acclaimed Dispatch,” Tilley wrote, adding that players can expect “a deeply layered story packed with rich characters, razor-sharp dialogue, fraught relationships, tough decisions, and yes… more than a few gruesome deaths.” He wrote that every choice and every interaction can ripple with dramatic consequences.

Release Date, Pre-Orders, and Editions

Until Dawn 2 launches on PS5 on 28 janvier 2027. Pre-orders for the Standard and Digital Deluxe Editions open on 10 septembre 2026.

Players who pre-order either edition unlock Dr. Hill-themed content, timed to the character’s return. The pre-order items are an Until Dawn classic outfit, an Akishima Island holiday outfit, and Dr. Hill collector’s bobbleheads to discover in-game. Peter Stormare returns as Dr. Hill.

The Digital Deluxe Edition includes two additions. The Y2K Neon Vibes Pack dresses all eight members of the Dead True crew — Owen, Mina, Nate, Reagan, Izzy, Luke, Josie, and Cameron — in neon costumes. Diorama of Death presents vignettes exploring unique angles of each fatal outcome, with scenes to unlock.

New Trailer and Story Details

A new pre-order trailer accompanies the announcement. Tilley described the trailer as showing the Dead True crew investigating Blackwood Sanitorium while shooting an episode about tragic events that unfolded 12 years earlier. Izzy, played by Sarah Catherine Hook, is the team’s new intern and uncovers something unexpected before upending the crew’s plans.

Later in the trailer, at HorrorCon in Sydney, the crew meets Yoona, played by Gia Kim, a survivor of a supernatural attack who reveals a dark, necrotic scar. Her warning sets the cast on a journey to a remote South Pacific island, abandoned since a luxury resort’s mysterious shutdown in the 1970s.

Tilley framed two choice scenarios from the trailer. Owen, played by Dacre Montgomery and described as Dead True’s cocky star, must decide whether to follow a signal to help his missing friend Nate, played by Spence Moore II, or detour across a rickety bridge to investigate a strangely lively bar. Mina, played by Camila Senna and described as the show’s conflicted co-host, faces a demand from the network for a ritual sacrifice live on camera, with the option of sacrificing the crew’s chicken or risking her own blood for the ritual instead.

Background on the Sequel

PlayStation first announced Until Dawn 2 on 2 juin 2026, in an earlier PlayStation.Blog post, also written by Tilley. That post described the sequel as a standalone experience with a brand new cast and a new world, while retaining the decision-driven structure in which player choices shape who survives.

The new cast is a crew of ghost hunters behind a paranormal channel called Dead True, who have never actually seen anything supernatural and whose known scares are staged. Having just signed a deal with a big TV network, the crew is shipped to an abandoned tropical island for their first fully funded episode.

The June post outlined the game’s choice-and-consequence systems, stating that how players manage relationships within the crew matters more than ever, with some story branches based on where things stand between characters. It said even small character moments can set off a Butterfly Effect, sending the story toward unforeseen consequences.

Firesprite took the reins on Until Dawn 2 as its first release since Horizon: Call of the Mountain, on which it collaborated with Guerrilla Games, according to the June post. The original Until Dawn arrived on PlayStation 4 in 2015. Firesprite said in June that it would roll out more story details, gameplay information, and cast introductions ahead of the game’s 2027 launch.