Evil Dead: The Game has been delisted from the PS Store and will no longer be available for purchase across any digital storefronts, Saber Interactive has confirmed.
The servers will remain online, allowing anyone who already owns the game or buys a physical copy to continue playing, but digital versions have already been pulled. A search on the PS Store does not pull any listings for the title. If you have been keeping up with the monthly PS Plus Essential drops, Evil Dead: The Game was included in the lineup for February 2023, so there's a chance you own it.
The studio confirmed the digital delistings in a statement on the game's Steam page: "We can confirm we've begun the process of removing the game from digital storefronts," it said. "Anyone who has purchased the game will still be able to play it as we plan to keep our servers online for everyone."
Evil Dead: The Game was an asymmetrical multiplayer game chasing the Dead by Daylight trend, and it represented a worthy alternative to the heavy hitter. In our Evil Dead: The Game PS5 review, we awarded an 8/10 rating and said it's "equivalent to its source material in being way more fun than you could reasonably expect it to be, and it's faithful as hell to the movies and TV show in a way that'll thrill fans".
New content for the game stopped arriving in September 2023, and now it looks like the experience overall is slowly winding down. The online servers will likely be next, but they remain live for now. Are you an Evil Dead fan and have played the title? Let us know in the comments below.
[source store.steampowered.com, via ign.com]
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Friday the 13th first, then Evil Dead, it's a safe bet that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre will eventually be next. The servers can be very choppy and the TXCM licensing has always been a rough one. For a long time it was owned by the Mafia, Louis Peraino used it as a front company, getting the rights back was almost impossible until his crew was indicted for conspiracy.
Licensing is what killed The Friday the 13th game, there's so little preservation when it comes to movie licensed games and so little transparency over ownership, the game could be be there one minute and gone the next. Not groovy.
I love everything Evil Dead but this game didn't do anything for me. Got a bunch of friends to try it when PSN+ dropped it but none of us could get into it. That's coming from people who enjoyed Dead By Daylight and other similar style games. Said that, I'm glad the servers will be online for those who still enjoy the game. Maybe we'll try it again before it fully goes offline.
@PocketHotDogs Were you on there for the last few days of Friday the 13th? It was a whole event, lots of people on there we're talking about the movies/books even the TV series. The Horror fanbase came out in force. It will probably happen for Evil Dead too. It's still not as bad as Evil Dead on the PS1 with the constant spawning of enemies, they took never stay dead to a whole new level. It meant most people never saw anything past the first level, they didn't have the ammo to get through.
@GirlVersusGame I was not however that sounds like a blast if that's the case that could happen for this game. Thank you for the info.
I'm a huge Evil Dead fan but got tired of the game after a few weeks. Still miss the older one that had a button for Campbell's one liners though. I forget which one it was (maybe Fistfull of Boomstick?) I just want a Bubba Ho-Tep game, is that too much to ask?
The comments aren’t jam-packed with, “this is why you buy physical?” Bravo!
You can still buy it on the Xbox store but I don't think it'll last.
I'm always confused by sudden delistings such as this. Wouldn't it make more sense to make an announcement and then perhaps put the game on sale? They make more money and the people who want the game have one last chance to buy it. Wouldn't that be a win-win?
@RiotMaker2424 The game publisher doesn't always get enough notice. Movie studios just decide one day that it's going to be pulled. Sometimes it's because they are getting ready to reboot a franchise and they want to move away from the old Image. Warner Bros. distributed the last rebooted movie (Evil Dead: Rise) there's unofficial talk of a new one. The original Evil Deads were far superior but that's the way the system works.
Game companies don't always know what they are getting into with movie licensed games. It's too compartmentalized and all it takes is one person to make the choice. Usually that person doesn't even know what a video-game is. Vic Miller managed to get Friday the 13th shutdown and he's hardly a heavy weight compared to the actual studios. All it takes are 'licensing issues' (unofficially they want more money) and we lose a game. Unless of course there's a way to preserve a copy.
@KidRisky Well this is why you buy physical
@Nepp67 A physical disc of a multiplayer game is useless when the servers are shut down.
That's why I never buy games with online DRM protection. It's a total waste of money.
@Syeddanishanwar I was making a joke, also yes it is pointless to buy any mp only game on disc unless you just want to have it physically.
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