The Dead by Daylight crossover — Cedar Hills, 1963, the industrial town with the foundry and the slaughterhouse and the specific darkness that the Entity has been feeding on. Frank Stone as the entity's chosen, the killer shaped by the place and the violence it normalized, the casting of the title referring to both the filmmaking that the characters are doing and the mythological casting of a role that the Entity has been preparing for longer than anyone involved understands.

Every choice carving deeper is the game's mechanics applied to the cosmic horror register that the Dead by Daylight universe operates in — the choices do not improve the situation, they deepen the commitment to the darkness that the place has been accumulating. The first three chapters establish the world and the characters before the darkness becomes the subject.