Friday the 13th: The Game is a 2017 asymmetrical survival horror game developed by IllFonic and published by Gun Media. It is based on the Friday the 13th franchise. The game was released on May 26, 2017 as a digital release[3] and later released on October 13, 2017, as a physical release[1] for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A Nintendo Switch version was released on August 13, 2019.[2]
The game pits up to seven players controlling Camp Crystal Lake counselors against one player controlling Jason Voorhees. It is a semi-open world game, with players able to explore it further.[4]
Due to licensing issues with Victor Miller who wrote the screenplay for the first Friday the 13th movie, the game servers were shut down in November 2020. However, the game was still available to play online through peer-to-peer matchmaking.[5] The game is to be delisted on December 31, 2023, due to the license expiring. Furthermore, the game’s dedicated servers will also be shut down, leaving players without the ability to join online multiplayer matches.[6]
Gameplay
Friday the 13th: The Game is a semi-open world[4] third-person survival horror game set throughout the 1980s in a variety of locations in and around the fictional Camp Crystal Lake from the Friday the 13th franchise.
The game is an asymmetrical multiplayer video game, with up to eight people able to play in one game session. One player is randomly selected to control Jason Voorhees[7] whose objective is to kill as many counselors as possible before time runs out. Playing as Jason grants special time-restricted abilities including being able to sense nearby counselors and to teleport anywhere on the map.[8][9] The remaining players control the counselors, who can temporarily stun Jason using firecrackers and bear traps as well as the various projectile and melee-based weapons that are found throughout the map. A player on the counselor’s side may also control Tommy Jarvis, who becomes playable when certain conditions are met.[10] The main objective of playing as a counselor is to escape the map alive, which can be done more quickly by completing the map’s side objectives (which are easier to complete when coordinating with other players) that will allow counselors to escape or to survive long enough until time runs out on the session. Jason may also be killed with an “epic win condition” that requires both teamwork and planning, and is difficult to perform.[7] In order to kill Jason, a female character is needed to find Jason’s shack, don the sweater of Pamela Voorhees, and claim she is J