In some news you might have seen coming, Saber Interactive has today announced it's officially cancelled the Nintendo Switch version of Evil Dead: The Game.
There's no reason attached to this announcement, but the same update reveals the decision to not pursue the development of "new content" for the game on other platforms. Servers will remain online in the "foreseeable future" and any major issues that arise will also be addressed.
"On behalf of the entire team at Saber, thank you for all the groovy times and your continued support."
Although Evil Dead: The Game was eventually released on other platforms, it did experience multiple delays leading up to this point. The last update on the Switch release was also some time ago, with Saber Interactive and Boss Games mentioning at the time how it was still scheduled to release on Nintendo's hybrid platform. Obviously, this won't be happening now.
This title had players step into the shoes of Ash Williams (played by Bruce Campbell) and multiple other survivors - tasking them with sealing the breach between worlds in co-op and PvP multiplayer modes. Although this title won't be coming to Switch, it is still available on other platforms - so if you really did want to give it a go, the option is there.
How are you feeling about this cancellation? Leave your thoughts below.
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Evil Dead is evil dead on Switch
It's sad to see the game only really lasted a year in terms of major support (the last major update was months ago, they just waited a long time to make this announcement). While I do prefer single-player games, this was a fun and unique take on the asymmetric horror genre that was really cool as a huge fan of the series. There were still plenty of characters they could have added - they didn't even do anything to tie into the new movie, which was a massive hit. I haven't played in a long time, but I'll have to boot it up again soon. Here's hoping we get another game in the future.
Probably because it’s player base is dwindling, I can’t say that for a fact though as I have never played the game, but it looks fun.
Then why announce it in the first place? Stop getting people's hopes up with false promises.
I wish someone would believe in me as much as Saber believed in their ability to get this running on Switch.
I forgot this was supposed to be coming out. We'll that sucks.
Well, I like Evil Dead, but that game... Another DbD-like multiplayer-only game. So, these news didn't disappoint me. If there was some proper single player content in the game, like story mode... That would be disappointing news, probably. Also, do these games support CPU offline mode, at least? Where you can play offline with bots and will be able to upgrade your skills or unlock new ones...
Axed? More like chainsawed. Amirite?!?
Well, I'm a big fan of the films & TV show. I really enjoyed Dead By Dawn and Friday the 13th games but I found this one on PS5 a real non-starter.
Oh, no.
Another multiplayer game based on a franchise I love, but would never play because I loathe playing games with other people.
shrugs
This is a game that I really wanted to like, but just wasn’t able to get into. Here’s to hoping that we can get another Evil Dead single player budget title after this. We haven’t had one of those since the PS2/Xbox days.
With them having to mention the servers will be up for foreseeable future sounds like this is on its way out. No point investing and releasing a Switch version if they will pull the plug across the board in a year or so.
This is a 2022 game so not sure why they already gave up on the game. Either not many people is playing online or the player's install base is not big enough for them to continue. Maybe it would had been a better game if they actually had some single player contents in there rather than making it a multiplayer focus title.
Big fan of the Evil Dead films AND a big fan of overly ambitious yet clearly compromised ports to Switch (see: Mortal Kombat 1), so bummed to see this game has been cancelled and coming to an end on other platforms as well. The official website still said " Coming Soon to Nintendo Switch" literally days ago (yes, I checked on a somewhere regular basis), but considering the amount of time that's passed with no updates, I'm not surprised.
It’s deja Wii U all over again.😂
Noooooooooooooooooo!
I've been waiting so long for this!
This is so not groovy...
Was hopeful as Saber was radio silent for the same amount of time for World War Z, and that ended up being enjoyable, but not ideal experience. They should honestly only announce games for the Switch (or Nintendo’s next console) if they actually got it running on the system.
Game is dead anyway, gets at most 30 people at a time playing on steam lol
Its like these horror multiplayer titles don't last.
Friday the 13th got hit with the franchise wide lawsuit.
Now this just faded and died.
Only Dead by Daylight has managed to be an ongoing success.
Ah yes, one of my "well, it's already on or coming to Switch... " PS+ IGC reactions. Imagine if I shared some fans' selectiveness about what to add to the library on top of that.😏 Still a pity not to see it on Switch even if I'm usually more lukewarm towards exclusively multiplayer titles on any platform. Hopefully Saber is still optimistic about their Kingdom Come Deliverance ambitions.
Aww
NOT GROOVY.
Ok. What about an Evil Dead collection for the PS/Xbox/DC games.
I loved the one on the Xbox that I did play. There were 2, A fistful of Boomstick and Regeneration. I think it was Regeneration where Ted Raimi voices some ugly nurk sidekick. It was a really fun game. Love to play that again.
Eh assymetrical survival games aren't all that great anyway. Make a REAL Evil Dead game, one that focuses on a campy story that is the heart of the series.
I've loved Evil Dead for decades now, but I lost all interest in this when I realised it was an Evil Dead game where there's a good chance you get stuck playing some random numpty while watching someone else play as Ash Williams.
Not sure why they ever thought that would be a good idea.
As a huge Evil Dead fan, still disappointing. I second Mana, just give us a collection of all the old games.
That's fine, it was just an online only thing, not a real game. Won't be missed.
I forgot this game even existed.
Not surprised. If it makes anyone feel better, I don't really enjoy it. It looks really good, but just isn't that fun to play. I had more fun playing Friday the 13th, on both Switch and PS5, than I did with Evil Dead.
I just want a new single player Evil Dead game, akin to the old PS2 games.
@Woderwick There are different Ashs (ED 1, 2, Army of Darkness and Vs). Also Evil Ash from Army of Darkness, which I presume means different people can play each of them in a match. Alas, us Switch owners won't get to test that though.
@Mana_Knight
I'll accept that Ash from Evil Dead is different to the others because Evil Dead 2 if basically a remake of the first the film, but the others are the same character so it sounds more like different skins. Either way, the way I read the description was that someone gets to be Ash each round and the players are stuck being a cheerleader or homeless dude or whatever.
The only way I'd want an Evil Dead game where I don't get to play as Ash would have to be some sort of Deadite Invasion action RPG where I get to create my own character.
As it stands though, I wouldn't want to be playing not-Ash while some jammy git gets to be the Chin Himself.
This is a massive digression though. While this is pretty much the exact opposite of what I want from Evil Dead, fit those that were looking forward to it the cancellation sucks.
I had the game on PC and it was not good. Not a groovy experience at all. I saw the tv show and the reboot movies, which I doubt many people have, and it did have models from all but the last movie. As a big evil dead fan, it was nice to see but obviously Evil Dead 2 is the one most people like and I doubt many people will recognise the models. Also, the old fistfull of broomstick PS2/Xbox game is much better. This is just a sandbox game, no proper levels, like Friday 13th. You need other players online to play this game and because on switch you would have to buy NSO, and then there would be nobody in the lobbies, I would never buy this game on switch. They need to create a proper single player game.
Now when is WB going to announce that Dying Light 2 Cloud Version is cancelled?
I forgot this game was even coming to Switch to be fair. Maybe that's telling in itself "in the grand scheme", lol. Anyway, still a shame. Also a shame it seems dead online on other platforms
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