Halloween Game Gets Price Slashed In This Launch Day Discount

There’s nothing like a good slasher around the best time of the year. I’m talking about the Halloween festivities, of course, and the Halloween game comes at a perfect time, bringing the 1v4 asymmetrical experience found in Dead by Daylight or the gone-but-not-forgotten Friday the 13th to the residents of Haddonfield. If you want to get a screaming good deal, the new Halloween adaptation already has a discount worthy of the slasher icon at launch. It’s hard to describe what makes asymmetrical experiences like this some of the best horror games, but I’ll take a stab at it. Whereas most horror games—which I adore as a genre, may I add—have predetermined situations, when the monster chasing you is another player, all bets are off. That makes every scare feel distinct, and as the fear of seeing the same scares wears off, games like Halloween thrive on randomness. There are two halves to the game, and we’ll start with becoming Michael Myers himself. In both the single-player mode and the “1” part of 1v4 multiplayer action, you play as the force of evil himself. That means you have access to some truly brutal kills, abilities that allow you to teleport under the cover of darkness, and w…