Friday the 13th: The Game has always done things differently. Trading killer diversity for single-source integrity, it never did catch up to fellow multiplayer slaughterfest Dead by Daylight in terms of widespread popularity when it launched a year later in 2017. Still, with its myriad iterations of Jason Voorhees stalking doomed camp counsellors (and Tommy Jarvis, of course), Friday offers up tense asymmetrical gameplay with a laser-tight focus on one particular kind of monster.
It's been fun avenging Pamela, but publisher Gun Media is hanging up the hockey mask and calling time on Camp Crystal Lake when its licence expires in 2024. I'll be sad to see Jason go, but it also makes sense – the game hasn't been on our lips for years now, and with Gun taking another stab at asymmetrical horror with upcoming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, clearing its plate is only logical. What's interesting to me is that now Friday the 13th: The Game is on sale for cheap, and all players have now been vaulted to Level 150 automatically, its Steam player count is slowly but surely ticking back up. Players old and new are making their way back to Jason's domain, and I'm thinking Friday might be gearing up to return from the grave yet again for one last big scare.
