Dawn of Fear is an action-horror adventure game with survival elements and a third-person perspective. The main character is Alex, a young man with a tragic past — his mother died during childbirth. His father did not lose heart and married another woman, who gave birth to a boy named Max. One day, father, Alex and Max had an accident, but only Alex survived. After some time, Alex managed to cope with the tragedy, but his stepmother ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Three years later, Alex received a letter that his stepmother had died. A young man decides to take things from his home, where he spent his entire childhood. There he finds himself in a crazy and ruthless world, from which it is not so easy to escape.