Everything You Need to Know About ‘Evil Dead: The Game’

The four-player squad in this asymmetrical horror game mainly consists of co-op gameplay and PvP mechanics in an online multiplayer setting. A single-player mode will also be available (this portion of the game also requires an online connection, by the way). The team of four players consists of survivors, which are all split into four playable classes. Those classes include Leaders, Warriors, Hunters, and Supports. A bunch of recognizable characters from the three original films and the Ash vs Evil Dead TV show within the Evil Dead franchise can be used as playable characters here - Ash is here and accounted for, of course (with newly recorded dialogue by Bruce Campbell to boot!). Plus some other familiar characters, such as Scotty, Lord Arthur, and Kelly Maxwell, pop up to get in on all the Deadite bashing fun.

The Survivors team is tasked with completing multiple tasks during a match that entails carefully exploring each map, looting for better gear, keeping your fear levels intact, discovering important items, and managing to seal the breach that the game's demonic forces use to invade the human realm. There are four versions of Ash across each class, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to do some chainsawing and shotgunning. Each playable character comes with its own weapon loadouts and abilities, which can be upgraded via a leveling system and an extensive skill tree.

On the other side of the gameplay field is the all-powerful Kandarian Demon. As that demonic force, players remain unseen by the Survivors all the while. In order the kill off the four other players and keep them from completing their missions, the Kandarian Demon player must collect energy from across the map in order to perform all sorts of actions. Those actions include taking possession of physical objects, summonable Deadites, and even the Survivors themselves (if you manage to scare them enough and raise their Fear levels). In the case of the Deadites, those demons are split into three classes: Warlord, Puppeteer, and Necromancer. And just like the Survivors, they all come with their own signature abilities in tow.