Today’s unfortunately the day to say goodbye for fans of Gun Interactive’s Friday The 13th: The Game. As we learned last year, Gun Interactive’s license for the asymmetrical multiplayer game will expire tonight, and with it, Friday The 13th: The Game‘s servers are being sunset. Meaning, today’s your final chance to play the game.
This obviously adds salt to the wound for fans, as the years-long dispute between director Sean Cunningham and Friday the 13th (1980) writer Victor Miller prevented Gun Interactive from adding any more content to Friday The 13th: The Game, most notably Uber Jason from Jason X. Fans had tried the do-it-yourself approach with a fan mod, but that was hit with a cease and desist from Horror Inc. not long after it was revealed.
There are several silver linings to the legacy of Friday The 13th: The Game, when you think about it. The game helped to lay the foundation of the horror asymmetrical multiplayer genre, which was subsequently capitalized upon by Dead by Daylight. It also paved the way for other big-name projects for publisher Gun Interactive in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Game, and for developer IllFonic, which has gone on to create titles such as Predator: Hunting Grounds, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game.
As for the future of Friday The 13th in video games, there’s are a couple of irons in the fire. Right now, you can enjoy stomping players as Jason in WB Games’ MultiVersus. There’s also the Jason Universe that launched earlier this year, with the intention that Friday The 13th would be making its way back in a variety of mediums, including video games.
And more specifically, we’re still waiting to hear more about the rumoured video game that currently involves longtime series composer Harry Manfredini.
Friday The 13th launched back in 2017 for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and eventually made its way to the Nintendo Switch.
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