"Friday 13" manufacturer IllFonic announced its new work "Halloween: The Game" at this year's Future Game Exhibition in Cologne, which is adapted from John Carpenter's 1978 classic thriller movie "Moonlight" and will be released in 2026. It will be available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and supports simplified Chinese. The game version will mainly be adapted from the first movie.
IllFonic said that the "Moonlight Panic" game is a horror sandbox game. The story describes Halloween in 1978. Every household in the quiet town of Hardenfield was preparing for the festival, but did not know that evil had quietly returned.
About this game
On Halloween night in 1978, residents of the quiet suburban town of Hardenfield were busy preparing for the festival without any warning, and evil had quietly returned.In this ultimate asymmetric horror sandbox game Halloween, you can play Michael Myers as an avatar of evil or as a hero of Hardenfield to save your neighbors around you.
When playing Michael, the player will wear a mask and transform into a "mask killer" and track innocent residents with ruthless obsession.Michael has a series of terrifying skills that can satisfy his bloodthirsty desires with the help of shadows and stealth.But that doesn't mean that the people in Hardenfield will sit and wait for death.Frightened residents would call the police and even fight back when threatened, which forced Michael to try to avoid being exposed.In addition, fans of this pioneering original film will have the first opportunity to experience the creepy plot events around the world before and after "the night he went home" from the perspective of Michael Myers in an independent single-player drama mode.
As a hero of Hardenfield, your mission is to remind the residents of Hardenfield to beware of the coming evil and help them escape Michael's ruthless pursuit.In dynamic and changeable 1v4 asymmetric multiplayer battles, hero players must use daily household items, weapons and survival knowledge to fight an unpredictable and unstoppable enemy.Convincing the townspeople and contacting the police will prompt the police to launch increasingly strict and powerful community patrols.To turn the situation around, you can command and equip them with weapons to outwit and even suppress that "evil avatar" and win precious moments for escape.
This immersive horror sandbox game is created by Unreal Engine 5. It not only brings rich and flexible dynamic gameplay systems, realistic NPC interactions, chilling realistic pictures and movie-level light and shadow effects, but also allows you to experience endless thrilling moments with your friends.Asymmetric gameplay returns strongly in Halloween.
