Regardless of its delisting and the impending shuttering of its servers, followers of Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation have purpose to rejoice, thanks to a fan challenge.
Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected is a free-to-play modded construct of Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation, and the workforce behind the challenge introduced yesterday that it plans to reveal the launch date for the mod on Monday, April 15. Together with offering devoted multiplayer servers, Resurrected additionally guarantees to introduce a roster filled with unique fan-made content material, reminiscent of new characters and skins.
The time has come campers… Look out for Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected launch date reveal coming April fifteenth, 2024.
We’ll see you SOON. pic.twitter.com/sDwNkRG32v
— Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation | Resurrected (@F13Resurrected) April 1, 2024
Final 12 months, writer Gun Interactive introduced it was delisting the recreation on December 31, 2023, due to the writer dropping the Friday the thirteenth license. Whereas the servers are nonetheless up and operating, the identical assertion additionally revealed that the servers would shut down on December 31, 2024.
Naturally, this mod has restricted entry if you happen to didn’t purchase Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation earlier than its delisting final December. Nonetheless, it is a good win for followers of horror video games and people who loved what Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation supplied.
Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation was launched in 2017, although its total life cycle was tormented by authorized disputes over the possession of the iconic slasher horror franchise. The authorized disputes obtained so dangerous that the developer had to halt the growth of latest content material for the recreation in 2019 earlier than in the end canceling the post-launch content material altogether in 2021. The brand new content material that was supposed to be added to the recreation consists of a werewolf mode impressed by gameplay present in Internal Sloth’s Amongst Us.
In our assessment of Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation, IGN wrote: “Lopsided gameplay and egregious bugs nearly kill the temper of Jason’s homicide spree in Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation.”
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You may observe her on Twitter @TayNixster.