Get the latest tech news
The Casting of Frank Stone review - an insubstantial origin story with some precious moments
Our review of The Casting of Frank Stone, a horror collaboration that has its moments, but can get bogged down in fan-service and references.
The game follows Supermassive tradition – as in the developer's 2015 cult hit Until Dawn and 2022's The Quarry – by focusing on a group of small-town teens and finger-wagging adults as they all discover the supernatural evil saturating their lives. Watch on YouTube But, despite the interesting intricacies of its plot, The Casting of Frank Stone's catatonic horror is hardly explored in its interactive narrative, which spends too much time on inconsequential exposition; romantic threads unroll into nothing, character revelations never resurface, and so on. While it's only available after you either complete a Frank Stone playthrough or purchase the game's deluxe edition, the Plunderer's Instinct mechanic helpfully highlights important items in cobweb white.
Or read this on Eurogamer