He begins to recall previous points in his life before waking up inside the tent to find that night has fallen. Ellis finds a working camcorder before blacking out. Shortly after entering the forest, Ellis contacts search party leader Sheriff Emmet Lanning, who lets Ellis join the search despite questioning his mental fitness due to his recurring PTSD.Īfter finding Peter's hat and following his scent, Ellis and Bullet reach a campsite. In 1996, two years after the disappearance of three college students, veteran and former police officer Ellis Lynch alongside his police dog Bullet, travels to Black Hills Forest in Burkittsville, Maryland to join the search party for missing 9-year-old Peter Shannon.

The game's story and characters are used from Hunt-A-Killer: Blair Witch

Like the film, it integrates the found-footage subgenre with the gameplay and story, often through the use of cassette tapes. Along the way, players will find strange wooden dolls, photographs and cassette tapes and will also be tasked with solving puzzles. The game focuses on survival horror mechanics and stealth and is played from a first person perspective, requiring the player to use items such as a camera, cellphone, flashlight or Ellis' dog, Bullet, to track and follow the trail of missing nine-year old Peter Shannon while fending off shadowy creatures. The game was later ported to PlayStation 4 on December 3, 2019, Nintendo Switch on June 25, 2020, Oculus Quest & Quest 2 on Octoand Amazon Luna on October 7, 2021. The game follows former police officer Ellis Lynch as he joins the search in Black Hills Forest for a missing boy. The game is set two years after the events of the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project, which takes place in 1994. It was published by Lionsgate Games for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass on August 30, 2019.

Blair Witch is a survival horror video game developed by Bloober Team based on the Blair Witch series of horror films.

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