Summerford is a survival horror title that uses a fixed perspective in order to create a dark, atmospheric, and cinematic world to explore the fictional rural English village of Summerford and its surrounding areas. The site of a nuclear accident, the area is under strict quarantine, but not too strict, as the player (playing a character named Samantha Linden) and other urban explorers enter the site 20 years after the accident. However, all is not how it appears, as Samantha begins to discover the truth behind the accident when she is separated from her friends.