Misery loves company, but what about horror? We love scary things. Well, we love fun scary things like Re-Animator or Hugh Grant, not existentially scary ones like climate change. While there’s some comfort being terrified with a group, is it really better? How well do you do IRL when people start panicking? What about if you’re faced with a choice of you or them? Do you really have what it takes to truly survive or will your empathy be your downfall?
These are just some of the questions posed by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, now available on PS Plus. An asymmetrical multiplayer horror survival, it thrusts players are into one of two camps. The obvious, gut-wrenching survivor team. Or, in a twist for the genre, a team of crazed killers working in unison to hunt them down. It’s the ultimate game of hide-and-seek, and every bit as tense as the legendary film franchise that inspired it.
