Halloween: The Game Coming From Friday The 13th Devs, Features Single-Player

Someday in 2026, it will likely be the “night time he got here house,” as Illfonic and Gun Media have revealed Halloween: The Game, a brand new single-player and multiplayer tackle John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 slasher. The duo beforehand labored collectively on Friday The 13th: The Game, a beloved multiplayer spin on one other masked slasher franchise.

Halloween debuted through the latest Future Video games Present, coinciding with Gamescom 2025. The sport is claimed to be due out in 2026 on Xbox Sequence X|S, PS5, and PC. It appears to focus particularly on adapting materials based mostly on the primary film.

In Halloween: The Game, gamers will tackle the roles of both residents of Haddonfield, Illinois or The Form himself, Michael Myers. As residents, gamers might want to survive, persist with the shadows, warn different residents, and hopefully attain the authorities earlier than Michael gashes them up.

The sport will supply a single-player story mode, offline bots mode, and on-line asymmetrical PvP. It is going to additionally embody a number of maps and “genuine places” pulled from the traditional movie. Final October, GameSpot spoke to a number of creators working within the house of adapting horror motion pictures into video games. Gun Media CEO, Wes Keltner, advised me at the moment that he wished “to work with [Illfonic] once more, 100%. So I am hoping that we will discover one thing that could be a good match for each our groups on the proper time.”

At the moment, a Halloween mission in-built Unreal Engine 5 had already been teased by Boss Workforce Video games, a writer that additionally operates within the horror movie-to-game pipeline, having beforehand labored on issues like Evil Useless and RetroRealms. It is unclear presently whether or not that is that very same Halloween sport. It appears to be, during which case it will appear Boss Workforce is not concerned, and as a substitute, the Friday The 13th duo has achieved their reunion.

Within the time since Friday The 13th, Illfonic has gone on to make different licensed multiplayer video games comparable to Killer Klowns from Outer House, Predator: Looking Grounds, and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed. In the meantime, Gun put out The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath.

Keep tuned to GameSpot for rather more on this upcoming horror mission.