Summary
Live-service multiplayer games have been losing their luster for a while now and it’s plain to see that subgenre will likely be shelved for a bit outside of shooters that have already laid claim to perpetual franchise installments. Rather, asymmetrical multiplayer games in particular are incredibly niche but seem to have made a bit more ground on expanding more lately, namely through games likeEvil Dead: The GameandThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Both games are ironically nearly identical in terms of the content they planned to put out, and therefore the former’s recent news will likely be the latter’s as well.
It’s possible for an asymmetrical game to thrive with unending content, but to do so there needs to be a plan in place that positions it to have a constant stream of new additions. Instead, bothEvil Dead: The GameandThe Texas Chain Saw Massacrewere developed with the intent of only including a relatively small amount of content as their franchises would afford, and becauseThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreis taking an even more narrow approach to its adaptation it is inevitable that it will end up likeEvil Dead: The Game.
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It was unfortunate to hear thatEvil Dead: The Gamewill be ending its developmentwith no more content updates aside from patching bugs. However, such news also wasn’t incredibly surprising because of the asymmetrical game’s nature and scope.
Evil Dead: The Gamedidn’t narrow itself to a singular installment in theEvil Deadfranchise, including characters and skins from the now-canceledAsh vs Evil DeadTV show and even managing to throw in content from the grisly 2013 reboot. There weren’t many other terribly iconic locations the game could’ve included and many of its most iconic characters were already there, though, so it’s definitely clear howEvil Dead: The Gamemight’ve hit a wall with regard to possible content updates.
This would’ve been an unstoppable inevitability in early development considerations as it was already decidedly limited to what it would adapt. It’s still too bad thatEvil Dead: The Gamedid end up needing to shut its doors so soon, and with this asymmetrical horror game’s swan song as an omen of what’s to come, it might not be long untilThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreshutters, too.
The Clock is Ticking for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s Longevity
The Texas Chain Saw Massacrehas only been out for less than a monthand it’s fully possible that Sumo and Gun might have plans for it that will give it a healthy shelf life. Regardless, as is the case with any asymmetrical game that doesn’t have an incessant grip on players’ attention spans,The Texas Chain Saw Massacrecould end up shuttering in the same amount of time it tookEvil Dead: The Gameto.
Moreover,The Texas Chain Saw Massacretruly shot itself in the foot by reducing its scope toprimarily the 1974 original for its adaptation, meaning that content from other movies isn’t expected now, either. Going against that initial premise to include content from otherTCSMentries would be forgiven if it meant that the game would have an extended longevity, but no current news at all about future content updates is essentially a death sentence anyhow. These asymmetrical games are often put down while new releases arrive, and if no new content is on the wayThe Texas Chain Saw Massacreis likely to be left behind before it eventually decides it has run through its allotted content.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacreis out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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