‘Dead Reset’ Video Game Review

Dead Reset is a 2025 adventure game using full motion video – directed by Stewart Sparke (Book of Monsters, How to Kill Monsters) and starring Daniel Thrace (Fortunes of War, How to Kill Monsters), Lyndsey Craine (All This Time, Eating Miss Campbell) and Dennis Rasaq – developed by Dark Rift Horror and Wales Interactive, published the game this month, September 2025, on multiple platforms.

Cole Mason, is an amnesiac surgeon trapped in a time loop. As Mason comes to in a research lab, he is required to operate on a patient who has a monstrous parasite growing in her. At various points in the story, which is presented via full motion video, players must choose between two options. Some choices reset the time loop with Mason’s death. Others reveal information about what is going on or advance the plot down different paths.