 The game is set two years after the events of the 1999 film "The Blair Witch Project", which takes place in 1994.The game follows former police officer Ellis Lynch as he joins the search in Black Hills Forest for a missing boy.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.