The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is a Survival, Horror, Action, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game offered by Supermassive Games. During the gameplay, the player can control a character out of five characters, needs to make decisions based on the character’s head and heart, and selects the options from the list available. A ghost ship traps all the characters, and they need to get rid of the prison altogether.

The player can explore the ghost ship using a third-person perspective, and the game offers three modes, such as Movie Night, Solo Story, and Shared Story. In the Shared Story mode, the player can play online via cooperating to complete the missions, while the movie night mode allows the player to select all the five characters and play real-time gameplay. The solo story mode allows the player to inspect the terrifying horror as a single-player.

The outcome of the game depends on the decisions that the players make. It is a multiple ending game as the outcome of the story is different all the time because all the players make different decisions. During the gameplay, the players also find Dark Pictures that will help them to view future explosions and past moments of the game, and the player can change his decision at any time of the gameplay. The game has core features, such as Three Modes, Five Characters, Premonitions, Third-person Perspective, and Brilliant Graphics.