Evil Dead: The Game Pulled From Storefronts 3 Years After Release, but Servers Will Remain Online

Evil Dead: The Game is nary longer disposable to bargain aft its steadfast began pulling it from integer storefronts.

The asymmetric multiplayer crippled based connected the much-loved enactment fearfulness franchise launched successful 2022 crossed PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. IGN’s Evil Dead: The Game reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: “Evil Dead: The Game is an asymmetric multiplayer crippled of feline and rodent that’s compelling and exhilarating, contempt being unsmooth astir the edges - overmuch similar the horror/comedies that inspired it.”

A Game of the Year Edition launched a twelvemonth later, but intelligibly failed to person the desired interaction connected subordinate numbers. In September 2023 the Nintendo Switch mentation was canceled and contented improvement was halted.

Now, 3 years aft launch, Evil Dead: The Game is gone for good, but its servers volition stay online for existing owners to proceed playing.

In a connection published to the game’s Steam page, developer and steadfast Saber Interactive confirmed the change:

We tin corroborate we've begun the process of removing the crippled from integer storefronts. Anyone who has purchased the crippled volition inactive beryllium capable to play it arsenic we program to support our servers online for everyone.We privation to widen a sincere convey you to our community, to those who person been portion of the crippled from the precise beginning, and those who person precocious joined us. We admit each of your support.

There are a fig of antagonistic reviews near connected Evil Dead: The Game’s Steam leafage lamenting the determination to propulsion it from sale, with astir saying it’s efficaciously dormant now. It retains a ‘mixed’ Steam idiosyncratic reappraisal standing overall.

“The extremity is nigh,” reads 1 caller affirmative reappraisal from a subordinate with implicit 380 hours in-game. “It was amusive portion it lasted, lads. I mean that.”

Saber Interactive, which developed past year’s breakout deed Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, has a fig of licensed movie games successful the works, including John Carpenter's Toxic Commando, Jurassic Park Survival, and an untitled Avatar: The Last Airbender game. Turok: Origins and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 are besides successful development.

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