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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99Subscribe now PS5 State of Play Ghost of Yotei Battlefield 6 New Games for 2025 Don't miss these Horror Games After 9 years of live service horror games, I can't wait for the new Hellraiser game to push back against the Dead by Daylight effect Horror Games Become purely and simply evil with the Halloween video game, unmasking in 2026 Survival Horror Games "If everything is the same, nothing stands out" – How lead devs for Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast are putting the horror back in survival horror Horror Games After 43 years, one of the world's greatest horror movies lives on in so many games – from Among Us to Cronos: The New Dawn Horror Movies 16 years after the critically panned reboot, iconic horror franchise Friday the 13th returns to the big screen with a new installment – and sequel to the hit video game Survival Horror Games Dying Light: The Beast's open world is "a secret mystery box" where "very f*cked up things" happen, but I'm most intrigued by the Stranger Things vibes Survival Horror Games Dying Light: The Beast is more than a homecoming for Kyle Crane – "For us, this is Dying Light 3" Board Games I chose this D&D board game to kick off spooky season, and it got me in the Halloween mood Horror Movies After 16 years, Jason Voorhees' official comeback is either a soulless hard cider commercial or the setup for the goriest, most experimental Friday the 13th to date, and I can't decide which it is Survival Horror Games I've been playing horror games for 25 years, but Dying Light: The Beast's gore just out-grossed it all by getting uncomfortably realistic Silent Hill I've waited 13 years to be excited about Silent Hill again, and Silent Hill f has me hopeful for the series' future Survival Horror Games 33 years later, Alone in the Dark still deserves recognition as the survival horror that bridged the gap between Cthulhu and Resident Evil Left 4 Dead has held the horde shooter crown for 17 years, but John Carpenter's Toxic Commando is the best challenger yet Silent Hill Silent Hill has been terrifying me for over 25 years, so here's my beginner's guide for the series ahead of Silent Hill f Survival Horror Games Supermassive Games' new sci-fi horror game Directive 8020 doesn't just let you redo your worst mistakes, it also speaks to my completionist heart Horror Games Oh, so Friday the 13th: The Game devs moved on from the lawsuit by just making the same game but with Michael Myers from Halloween, and you know what, hell yeah Jordan Gerblick 27 September 2025 Opinion: Halloween: The Game could be the Friday the 13th successor we've been waiting for all this time, if only because it looks exactly the same but with an even more iconic killer When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: IllFonic) After starting out in denial, I'm finally emerging from the fourth stage of grief over Friday the 13th: The Game's untimely shutdown and entering a phase of acceptance, and it's entirely thanks to Halloween: The Game re-emerging as basically the same game but with Michael Myers from John Carpenter's Halloween. At least, that seems to be the case judging from IllFonic's new gameplay trailer. I'll admit, I almost – almost – forgot Halloween: The Game existed before this week's gameplay trailer and release date reveal. Can you blame me? Between Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Game, Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game, the now-defunct Evil Dead: The Game, and my dearly departed Friday the 13th: The Game, there's a whole lot of "The Games" bouncing around, and they're all seemingly aimed at the cult following trailing Jason Voorhees' spin on the Dead by Daylight formula from 2017. Halloween: The Game, however, seems like the one to beat now, as it looks borderline indecipherable from Friday the 13th, like a bloated DLC whisking camp counselors off to 1978 Haddonfield, Illinois, and gifting hockey masked killers the Michael Myers mask. You may like After 9 years of live service horror games, I can't wait for the new Hellraiser game to push back against the Dead by Daylight effect Become purely and simply evil with the Halloween video game, unmasking in 2026 "If everything is the same, nothing stands out" – How lead devs for Silent Hill f and Dying Light: The Beast are putting the horror back in survival horror That's appropriate considering Friday the 13th, the film series, was originally and explicitly created to profit off of the success of Halloween, taking the idea of a ruthless, seemingly invincible masked serial killer and simply moving it to the woods, and replacing generational final girls like Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode with a bunch of horny, dispensable, teenaged idiots – played by 30-year-olds, of course. Not to mention, the original Friday the 13th was even filmed in New Jersey! Talk about full circle. I think I've seen this game before Halloween - Gameplay and Release Date Reveal | PS5 Games - YouTube Watching the PlayStation State of Play the other day and hearing that iconic Halloween piano melody, my ears naturally perked up. But then I saw the gameplay. Michael Myers lumbers around awkwardly stabbing random NPCs to death, those generic '70s era avatars wearing plasticky, feature-less expressions and moving with a familiar stiff, jerky gait. Michael Myers morphs into a cloud of black smoke and zooms around the map, surprising camp counselors – I mean, Haddonfield residents – with a knife to the chest before indiscriminately turning toward his next victim. Sometimes they fight back, knocking Michael down into an ungraceful lying position, but he gets back up after a few seconds to finish the job. Cops show up, handing Michael's survivors the win. Wait, this is just Friday the 13th: The Game, but Halloween, I thought. It took me a minute to process this. After all, I was still grieving over Friday the 13th: The Game, often playing the game in offline mode and pretending there's other people there. Like a child emotionally grappling with a new puppy arriving months after the loss of the family dog, I wasn't ready for Halloween: The Game to replace my favorite multiplayer horror game ever. But now, I am. Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You can't kill the boogeyman (Image credit: IllFonic Publishing) It helps that Halloween: The Game is being developed by IllFonic, the same folks that made Friday the 13th: The Game. Full disclosure: the studio pumps these things out like a factory, having previously made asymmetrical horror games Predator: Hunting Grounds, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and the aforementioned Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. But c'mon, this is Michael fuckin' Myers. He's in a league of his own, even above Jason Voorhees, as much as it pains me to say as a Friday the 13th diehard. My hope is that IllFonic takes the love it so clearly has for '70s and '80s horror and uses it to make its best asymmetrical horror game yet. For many, Friday the 13th: The Game set the benchmark before becoming unwittingly entangled in Victor Miller and Sean Cunningham's legal scrimmage. A bunch of multiplayer horror games based on classic horror IP have tried to fill the void, but none have succeeded. Michael Myers is one of the most beloved figures in horror, and if IllFonic has any sense about it, it'll do him justice. All it really has to do, in my opinion, is show the same amount of passion it did for Friday the 13th, add some polish, ditch the House of Wax aesthetic so many Camp Crystal Lake counselors went for, and pray to god John Carpenter isn't planning to sue anyone. Halloween: The Game is out September 8, 2026. In the meantime, here are the best horror games you can play right now to get you in the Halloween spirit. See more Games Features Jordan Gerblick Social Links Navigation After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish. 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