Halloween’s Michael Myers and Ash vs. Evil Useless’s Ash Williams are getting their very own throwback video games

Michael Myers could also be lifeless and Ash Williams could also be flung far into the long run, however they aren’t completed slashing up the display screen right here and now. Boss Stage Video games introduced the upcoming launch of two new retro type video games beneath its RetroRealms banner based mostly on the basic slasher flick Halloween and the Starz horror comedy collection Ash vs. Evil Useless.

The retro Halloween and Ash vs. Evil Useless titles can be launched on October 18 for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Change and PCs through Steam.

The Halloween sport places gamers in command of the homicide machine Michael Myers in the course of the occasions of the unique John Carpenter movie as he hacks and slashes his approach by way of Haddonfield, Illinois along with his iconic butcher knife. The Ash vs. Evil Useless sport pits gamers because the horror film and TV collection hero along with his arm-mounted chainsaw and his beloved boomstick in opposition to an onslaught of Deadites unleashed by the Necronomicon.

The video games can be offered individually, or collectively as a part of a particular “Double Function” bundle. There’s additionally a particular “Collectors’ Version” that features a bodily copy of the sport to your chosen console, two additional playable characters — together with Laurie Strode for Halloween and Kelly Maxwell for Ash vs. Evil Useless — and a bunch of different Halloween goodies like a 12-inch plush Michael Myers doll, a digital copy of the Halloween sport’s soundtrack, a pack of Halloween buying and selling playing cards and extra. The video games join to one another when each are put in by way of crossover entry during which characters may be dropped at both sport and “an ever-expanding universe of widespread characters that unlocks extra gameplay,” based on Boss Workforce Video games.

Boss Workforce Video games is likely one of the studios behind the favored uneven survival horror multiplayer slasher Evil Dead: The Game. The studio’s press launch additionally notes that these two video games can be “the primary two releases in a brand new collection of video games for console and PC” implying that extra throwback sport tasks are within the works.