The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan review — Save your characters even if they are annoying

I’ve played through several endings of The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, and I’m going to play more until I get the ending just right. In this post-World War II era horror game set aboard a derelict freighter, your job is to make sure that all five characters come back alive — no matter how annoying they are.

Man of Medan is one of multiple installments in The Dark Pictures Anthology, and it’s the latest horror game to come from Supermassive Games — the makers of Until Dawn, my favorite title of 2015. Medan debuts on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC on August 30. This time it comes with a multiplayer mode: Shared Story, where you can play in the same story with another human player, who controls a different character among a group of playable characters. The game also has a Movie Night mode, where up to five people can pass the controller around, taking turns controlling one character each.