Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected Is a Mod That Goals to Revive Delisted Horror Sport, Launch Date Coming Quickly

Regardless of its delisting and the upcoming shuttering of its servers, followers of Friday the thirteenth: The Sport have motive to rejoice, because of a fan challenge.

Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected is a free-to-play modded construct of Friday the thirteenth: The Sport, and the group behind the challenge introduced yesterday that it plans to disclose the discharge date for the mod on Monday, April 15. Together with offering devoted multiplayer servers, Resurrected additionally guarantees to introduce a roster stuffed with unique fan-made content material, akin to new characters and skins.

The time has come campers… Look out for Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected launch date reveal coming April fifteenth, 2024.

We’ll see you SOON. pic.twitter.com/sDwNkRG32v

— Friday the thirteenth: The Sport | Resurrected (@F13Resurrected) April 1, 2024

Final 12 months, writer Gun Interactive introduced it was delisting the sport on December 31, 2023, because of the writer dropping the Friday the thirteenth license. Whereas the servers are nonetheless up and operating, the identical assertion additionally revealed that the servers would shut down on December 31, 2024.

Naturally, this mod has restricted entry should you didn’t purchase Friday the thirteenth: The Sport earlier than its delisting final December. Nonetheless, it is a good win for followers of horror video games and people who loved what Friday the thirteenth: The Sport supplied.

Friday the thirteenth: The Sport was launched in 2017, although its whole life cycle was tormented by authorized disputes over the possession of the long-lasting slasher horror franchise. The authorized disputes obtained so unhealthy that the developer needed to halt the event of recent content material for the sport in 2019 earlier than in the end canceling the post-launch content material altogether in 2021. The brand new content material that was speculated to be added to the sport features a werewolf mode impressed by gameplay present in Internal Sloth’s Amongst Us.

In our evaluate of Friday the thirteenth: The Sport, IGN wrote: “Lopsided gameplay and egregious bugs virtually kill the temper of Jason’s homicide spree in Friday the thirteenth: The Sport.”

Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You possibly can observe her on Twitter @TayNixster.