Every Dread Map opens onto a different stretch of parish road. The pieces are authored, and the game decides which to use and where each one goes, so the ground feels built rather than shuffled.
In What Waits Past the Gate we said grown ground was for the full game. The endgame maps are a first piece of it, and they are in the demo.
You arrive through a torch-lit pass in the mountains, and one road leads to the far end. Detours branch off to set pieces: a wayside shrine, an orchard behind its wall, a woodcutter's clearing, a pilgrim camp, a ruined tower. Between the road and the mountains, open fields are dressed with tufts, rocks and stumps. The road is worn dirt, darker than the grass so your eye finds it. Torches stand along it on the grass shoulder, so the lit way is the way through.
The map is ringed by mountains and thick woods that stop you where they look like they should, and a bank of dark mist hangs along the edges so you never see past them. On the minimap the road is drawn as worn dirt, and only ground you can actually walk is drawn.
You never lose your character behind a tree. A soft see-through circle follows you and cuts a hole in whatever stands between the camera and your character, tree canopies and rooftops included. It has worked in the Graveyard for a long time. It works on the generated maps now too.
The maps are compact and the packs are spread along the whole road, so there are no long empty walks between fights. Open a harder map and the packs along that road come in greater numbers and hit harder.
The pass you came in by and the pass at the far end are both click doors marked Back to camp, so a careless step backward at the start cannot throw you out of the map by accident.
Spend a map and you get a road you have not walked before. Walk back in through the red swirl and it is the same road again.