Megan places her doll onto a stove lit by Anthony, starting a house fire where each of the family members die except for Anthony, who runs back into the burning house as the prologue ends.īack in the present, the group set off into Little Hope to search for help as the bus driver goes missing. The story then jumps back to a prologue set in 1972 regarding the Clark family: the parents, Anne (David) and James (Ivanovici), and their four adopted children, Anthony (Poulter), Tanya (Sponheimer), Dennis (Bailey), and Megan (Skye Burkett). In the present day, a bus driver is taking four students, Andrew ( Will Poulter), Angela ( Ellen David), Taylor (Caitlyn Sponheimer), and Daniel (Kyle Bailey), and their professor, John (Alex Ivanovici), on a class trip, before crashing after being forced to take a detour through the ghost town of Little Hope.
Little Hope is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator ( Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it. "Shared Story" allows 2 players to play co-op online and "Movie Night" allows up to 5 players to select their own characters and prompts them to pass the controller at each turn. Similar to Man of Medan, the game features two multiplayer modes. Action sequences mainly feature quick time events, most of which, if missed, can lead to dire consequences for each character. Depending on the choices of the players, some or all characters may or may not die by the end of the story. The game can be played multiple times, as there are multiple endings and multiple scenarios based on the decisions that the players make. Throughout the game, the player needs to choose different dialogue options, which will influence the course of the narrative and the relationships between the protagonists. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope is a survival horror video game played from a third-person perspective in which the player assumes control of all 5 characters who are trapped in a ghost town of Little Hope.