{"id":956647,"date":"2026-01-02T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:34:18","slug":"the-casting-of-frank-stone-review-an-insubstantial-origin-story-with-some-precious-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review-an-insubstantial-origin-story-with-some-precious-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Casting of Frank Stone review &#8211; an insubstantial origin story with some precious moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review-an-insubstantial-origin-story-with-some-precious-moments.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>As a huge fan of both developer Supermassive Games&#8217; interactive horror marathons and publisher Behaviour Interactive&#8217;s asymmetrical multiplayer <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/dead-by-daylight\">Dead by Daylight<\/a>, I thought The Casting of Frank Stone might have been a daydream I conjured during yet another sleepless night. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s actually a drawn-out multiverse adventure with pacing as lethargic as I am.<\/p>\n<p>The game follows Supermassive tradition &ndash; as in the developer&#8217;s 2015 cult hit Until Dawn and 2022&#8217;s <a data-keyword=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/the-quarry\">The Quarry<\/a> &ndash; by focusing on a group of small-town teens and finger-wagging adults as they all discover the supernatural evil saturating their lives. Frank Stone, the game, effectively serves as an explanation for Dead by Daylight&#8217;s cyclical set up, its repetitive Killer-versus-four-Survivors trials. Though it does this peripatetically, with an original cast of characters facing an original set of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Their story unfolds in two overlapping parts: in the 80s, a group of friends filmed a horror movie at an abandoned steel mill. In 2024, Frank Stone, the guy, is a serial killer whose screaming soul is trapped on cloudy slices of their Super 8 film. After dying at the mill decades prior, Frank was incorporated into the billowing, unexplained Entity, a cosmic spider-being Dead by Daylight players will recognize as that game&#8217;s progenitor. So layers of interdimensional sorcery are somehow responsible for this circuitous plot. In this origami timeline, you control different iterations and family members of the original friend group &ndash; the young and older versions of stoic director Linda, the grieving daughter Madison, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a huge fan of both developer Supermassive Games&#8217; interactive horror marathons and publisher Behaviour Interactive&#8217;s asymmetrical multiplayer Dead by Daylight, I thought The Casting of Frank Stone might have been a daydream I conjured during yet another sleepless night. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s actually a drawn-out multiverse adventure with pacing as lethargic as I am. The game follows Supermassive tradition &ndash; as in the developer&#8217;s 2015 cult hit Until Dawn and 2022&#8217;s The Quarry &ndash; by focusing on a group of small-town teens and finger-wagging adults as they all discover the supernatural evil saturating their lives. Frank Stone, the game, effectively serves as an explanation for Dead by Daylight&#8217;s cyclical set up, its repetitive Killer-versus-four-Survivors trials. Though it does this peripatetically, with an original cast of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-casting-of-frank-stone-review-an-insubstantial-origin-story-with-some-precious-moments\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":956648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[1821,1192,9436,59,45,54,4194,10367,4616],"class_list":["post-956647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-behaviour-interactive","tag-horror","tag-interactive-drama","tag-pc","tag-ps5","tag-single-player","tag-supermassive-games","tag-the-casting-of-frank-stone","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Casting of Frank Stone review - an insubstantial origin story with some precious moments | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As a huge fan of both developer Supermassive Games&#039; 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