PSA: You can play the terrifying demo for The Casting of Frank Stone right now

Developer Supermassive Games and Publisher Behaviour Interactive have announced that from August 26, 2024, fans have a chance to try out a for their upcoming title, The Casting of Frank Stone. The demo allows you to tesཧ🌃t out the horror before its September release date.

In this demo, players take on the role of Sam Green, an extremely determined policeman who is on a case to find a missing child. This case leads him to the disturbing location of Cedar Hills Steel Mill, a place brimming with secrets yearning to terrify those willing to discover them. Those secrets will reveal a truth so sinister it will turn Green’s stomach, but he must continue in his pursuit of hopefully saving a life.

Be ready for the main game

Supermassive Games explains that this demo acts as a prologue to The Casting of Frank Stone. So, if you want to get ahead of the game and engross yourself in its world well ahead of time, I suggest you pick it up and play it through so you know where you’re starting from when the final release hits on September 3, 2024.

The demo also contains twists, turns, and hidden easter eggs for Dead by Daylight fans to enjoy, so keep an eye out if you’re a fan because you’ll find something that’ll make you chuckle. Or maybe even scream. Demo progress won’t carry over to the main game. But it does give you a chance to play around with the mechanics and become familiar with them early, so you know what you’re doing in the full release.

Gameplay in The Casting of Frank Stone revolves around exploring the outcomes of various situations and choices. While there’s one optimal route through the game, there are dozens of potential other routes for you to explore if you want to. This adds a lot of replayability to the game and this demo, so don’t just rush it. The aim, as is the case with other Supermassive Games titles, is to explore every potential outcome and see everything the game and story has to offer so you understand all of it.

Note that this demo is short and isn’t a slice of the full game that you’ll repeat after a few hours. This is an opportunity to get into the introduction and a tutorial in many ways and experience this new brand of horror set within the Dead by Daylight universe.