Friday The 13th devs reveal new Halloween game with single-player mode

John Carpenter’s Halloween is getting adapted into a Dead By Daylight clone, albeit with one key difference.

There’s been an abundance of asymmetrical horror games based on IP over the past few years, between The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Evil Dead: The Game, and Friday The 13th.

All of these have attempted to emulate the success of Dead By Daylight, yet none of them have accrued the same popularity despite largely sharing the same 1v4 formula.

Another is now set to enter the fray next year, only this time based on John Carpenter’s 1978 classic Halloween.

Developed by IllFonic, the studio behind Friday The 13th: The Game and Predator: Hunting Grounds, Halloween is similarly a 1v4 asymmetrical multiplayer title where you either play as Michael Myers or a survivor in Haddonfield.

As Michael, you utilise abilities and leverage ‘shadows and stealth’ to take down enemies, while survivors can arm themselves with household items and weapons to fight back. Based on a Steam description, there will be NPC ‘neighborhood patrols’ you can command and equip with weapons too, ‘to outsmart or even overpower The Shape’.

If that all sounds fairly familiar, the developer is promising an offline single-player story mode too. While IllFonic is light on details, the game’s website describes it as an ‘immersive and interactive cinematic experience’ which leans into ‘exploration and replayability’, where you play as Michael Myers.

‘Witness the haunting narrative events surrounding ‘The Night He Came Home’ through the eyes of Michael Myers in a standalone single-player story mode,’ a description reads.

It’s unclear if this means you’ll just be wandering around the multiplayer maps offline, but hopefully it’ll be something which can differentiate it from Dead By Daylight – where Michael Myers is already playable as a killer.

Halloween, which is being developed in Unreal Engine 5, is slated to launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC sometime in 2026.

This isn’t the first time Halloween has been adapted into a game. In 1983, a Halloween game was released for the Atari 2600, while Halloween-themed DLC was released last year for RetroRealms: Arcade.

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