The Devil in Me is an interactive drama and survival horror game with slasher horror elements.[1][2] It was developed on Unreal Engine 4 and is presented from a third-person perspective.[3][4] Players take control of five protagonists who are members of a documentary film crew that are shooting the season finale of their series which focuses on H. H. Holmes, when they receive an invite to a modern-day replica of Holmes' "Murder Castle" hotel.[5][6] The game introduces multiple new gameplay features that are a departure from the previous entries in The Dark Pictures Anthology. There is now an inventory feature for the characters, tool-based puzzles, as well as new movement capabilities including running, jumping, and climbing.[7] The inventory system involves items that can be used for defence as well as to collect things. Returning from previous games are the black and white framed pictures that are spread across the game; black frames depict a protagonist's death, while white frames foresee a dangerous situation that could become a character's death. Each premonition gives the player a chance to change their fate based on the decisions they make, as the premonitions often depict possible moments from the near future.[8]