Evil Dead: The Game
Evil Dead: The Game is a PlayStation 5 shooter game developed by Saber Interactive. It centers on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, area and route exploration, and weapon and firepower management, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.6 / 10
About this game
Evil Dead: The Game is a PlayStation 5 shooter game centered on aiming, shooting, and weapon use, area and route exploration, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Evil Dead's games bring Ash Williams and the films' possessed Deadites into survival horror and action adventures. Chainsaws, desperate fights and grotesque jokes carry the screen series' unruly personality into games ranging from solo journeys to asymmetric multiplayer.
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AI review
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Engaging asymmetric combat and faithful atmosphere work best for existing owners with a group.
Evil Dead: The Game lets survivors fight back rather than merely flee. Objectives, supplies and fear management interact with the demon's traps, summons and possession, giving coordinated teams and well-timed interventions room to matter. Familiar locations, returning voices and exaggerated gore make the franchise identity convincing. The fixed objective structure becomes repetitive, however, and weak solo missions carry an excessive restart cost. PS5 reviews also identify friction in aiming and melee targeting. This is not a substantial single-player campaign. Digital delisting did not itself end play: Saber's statement retained servers, and recent player reports corroborate continuing access. Existing owners with friends are the clearest audience, without any guarantee about matchmaking waits or how long service will continue.
Strengths
- Survivors and demons both have meaningful agency.
- Locations, voices and gore capture the source material.
Weaknesses
- Solo missions are weak and costly to retry.
- Aiming and melee targeting introduce friction.
Who it is for: Existing owners, franchise fans and coordinated groups.
Play notes: Delisted but servers remain; even AI play requires connectivity. Future service and queue times are not guaranteed, and GOTY content is not assumed included.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Character roles support repeated multiplayer matches, but weak solo missions and costly restarts do not provide a convincing alternative. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Active combat and possession give both sides agency, with coordination and timing providing tension within a fairly fixed objective structure. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Recognizable locations, returning voices and exaggerated gore make the license tangible during play, with atmosphere stronger than standalone storytelling. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Imprecise targeting and restart design add friction to the action, while continual connectivity further limits convenient access. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Saber Interactive
- Publisher
- Saber Interactive
- Release date
- May 13, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- DodgeMain Story Under 10 HoursLinear LevelsHorrorThird PersonSolo-friendly3D GraphicsExplorationReplayablePlayer versus EnvironmentShootingFast-paced
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerCo-opSingle player
- Perspectives
- First personThird person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideMay 13, 2022
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