Friday the 13th: The Game
Campground killer Jason, with his hockey mask, is one of the most recognizable men in horror, a quiet, heartless ghost. 2017’s Friday the 13th: The Game tried to honor his restless soul with a solid asymmetric multiplayer survival horror that lets you play as a shrieking counselor or the tattered Jason Voorhees himself. It might have worked if legal trouble didn’t effectively kill this glitchy game in 2018, before it had the chance to get up and recover.
What critics said: “Unfortunately, the game is very boring, but at least it’s boring in ways that made playing it with a friend very funny,” Gita Jackson wrote in a 2017 review for Kotaku. “As each minute of the match tediously ticked down, my boyfriend and I laughed with each other over Skype at just how inept the game makes you feel as either Jason or the counselors.”
