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Evil Useless: The Game is not that can be purchased after its writer started pulling it from digital storefronts.
The uneven multiplayer recreation based mostly on the much-loved motion horror franchise launched in 2022 throughout PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. IGN’s Evil Useless: The Game evaluation returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “Evil Useless: The Game is an uneven multiplayer recreation of cat and mouse that’s compelling and exhilarating, regardless of being tough across the edges – very like the horror/comedies that impressed it.”
A Game of the Yr Version launched a yr later, but clearly did not have the specified affect on participant numbers. In September 2023 the Nintendo Swap model was canceled and content material improvement was halted.
Now, three years after launch, Evil Useless: The Game is gone for good, but its servers will stay on-line for present homeowners to proceed enjoying.
In a press release revealed to the game’s Steam page, developer and writer Saber Interactive confirmed the change:
We are able to affirm we have begun the method of eradicating the sport from digital storefronts. Anybody who has bought the sport will nonetheless be capable of play it as we plan to maintain our servers on-line for everybody.
We need to prolong a honest thanks to our group, to those that have been a part of the sport from the very starting, and people who have not too long ago joined us. We admire all your help.
There are a selection of unfavourable evaluations left on Evil Useless: The Game’s Steam web page lamenting the choice to tug it from sale, with most saying it’s successfully useless now. It retains a ‘blended’ Steam consumer evaluation ranking total.
“The finish is nigh,” reads one latest constructive evaluation from a participant with over 380 hours in-game. “It was enjoyable whereas it lasted, lads. I imply that.”
Saber Interactive, which developed final yr’s breakout hit Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 2, has a lot of licensed film video games within the works, together with John Carpenter’s Poisonous Commando, Jurassic Park Survival, and an untitled Avatar: The Final Airbender recreation. Turok: Origins and Warhammer 40,000: Area Marine 3 are additionally in improvement.
Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.