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

Facts from the original

• Illfonic and Gun Media have revealed Halloween: The Game, a single-player and multiplayer take on John Carpenter's iconic 1978 slasher.
• The duo previously worked together on Friday The 13th: The Game, a beloved multiplayer spin on another masked slasher franchise.
• Halloween debuted during the recent Future Games Show, coinciding with Gamescom 2025.
• The game is said to be due out in 2026 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC.
• It seems to focus specifically on adapting material based on the first movie.
• Players will take on the roles of either residents of Haddonfield, Illinois or The Shape himself, Michael Myers.
• As residents, players must survive, stick to the shadows, warn other residents, and hopefully reach the authorities before Michael gashes them up.
• The game will offer a single-player story mode, offline bots mode, and online asymmetrical PvP.
• It will include multiple maps and "authentic locations" pulled from the classic film.
• Last October, GameSpot spoke to several creators working on adapting horror movies into games.
• Gun Media CEO Wes Keltner told GameSpot he wanted to work with Illfonic again, 100%, hoping to find something that fits both teams at the right time.
• A Halloween project built in Unreal Engine 5 had already been teased by Boss Team Games, a publisher that also operates in the horror movie-to-game pipeline.
• Boss Team Games previously worked on things like Evil Dead and RetroRealms.
• It's unclear whether this is the same Halloween game; it seems to be, in which case Boss Team is no longer involved.
• Since Friday The 13th, Illfonic has made Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Predator: Hunting Grounds, and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed.
• Gun put out The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
• The article was written by Mark Delaney and published August 20, 2025.