Friday the 13th: The Game

I recommend this game. It's easy to pick up and play, it incorporates all the best feel of camp crystal lake and none of the more questionable future instalments.

It's up to 8 players or you can have a private match, Jason is randomly assigned unless the host chooses, it's always random in the public match. If you're not Jason you gotta work together to escape by acquiring buildables, like a car battery, phone the police, escape on the boat or simply hide! Calling Tommy Jarvis brings a dead character back after two have been murdered in a variety of ways.

The developers are actively trying to improve the servers as currently one in two games will crash, leaving you with no XP to roll perks or unlock Jason's moves. This is the main downfall which hopefully will be rectified soon.

New content is due every couple of months which no doubt will improve the game further. The controls are fine, some of the mechanics are a bit ropey but that kinda adds to the experience! If you game regularly with 6 to 10 people then get this game, definitely a good laugh if nothing else.

If you're going to buy this game, prepare for the most bugged up mess you'll ever see in your entire life. The only game I've ever known that actually gets MORE bugs when new updates release. At this point you'd think they were an actual feature of the game. Almost every single aspect of the game is filled with them, whether you're playing as Jason or a counselor, and doing something even as simple as searching a draw, or locking a door. In fact you don't even need to get in a game for them to start, they even happen in the main menu as well.

Then you get to the horrible changes they've made to the game over time. In the beginning it was a pretty fun game, but now so horribly unbalanced it becomes laughable.

On top of all that, the game is effectively dead. You'll be waiting anywhere up to half an hour for a lobby since nobody is playing anymore, and the Ft13th lawsuit prevents anything new from ever being added to the game.

The only slightly redeemable factor is the offline challenges you can do, but get very repetitive really quickly.

Might have been worth buying in the beginning, but certainly not now

Great gameplay let down by bad servers but it can be very scary when you are in a cabin with Jason which is what we want in a game like this. Not for kids as the gore is an easy 10/10 and quite brutal. And if you have a full lobby of friends I am going to say that this is the most fun game you will ever play.

Created by independent developers and funded through kickstarter, Friday the 13th, the game is worthy of a purchase on Playstation Plus since its free as of the time of this review. There's no storyline in this game as it's a pick up and play game set in different areas of the franchise. The mission of the game is to survive being killed as either Jason or the counselors and gain experience points and level up. The more you level up, you get more characters. There's also a virtual cabin where you can find interesting trivia about the game and the franchise upon which this cult game is based on. Controls are very easy and the challenge of trying to kill the target is very fun. It also has an influential score from the films, the theme song from part 6 in the credits, and the voice of Kane Hodder as Jason. Most recently in the news, a settlement was reached in which the creators of the game will add future content to this year old game, ensuing that millions of players will hack their way to victory.

There's not much to this online survival game. While it does has its moments, the lack of story or gameplay elements makes the game quite stale after a few lobbies. My brother and I had some great moments running away terrified from Jason, or hacking people to death, but I can't say we spent more than 30 mins at a time on it before getting bored and switching it off. Wish they would have done something different with a Friday the 13th video game; missed opportunity.

Edit: Decided to check out this game a little bit more since I seen the servers were closing down in December 2024. Now, when I first left my review, I haven't played the game in years, and honestly, I wasn't fond of multiplayer-only games especially if it doesn't have any story and is just pvp based. Nowadays, I'm a little more lenient in those genres of games since I found that games don't always need a plot to be fun and enjoyable, but I do need some substance for the game to be worth playing. Now, coming back to this, the multiplayer aspects is pretty straightforward, as in a lobby, you have up to 7 people who play as counselors and 1 person plays as Jason. I think the biggest problem with this game is that because the game is so old and straightforward, everyone that still plays already knows exactly what to do, and for me, was a little frustrating trying to get away from Jason when the person playing Jason has thousands of hours logged in the game and just plays the game to either grief or just troll. Idk after I'd say 20 rounds, I started getting the hang of it, and started enjoying it little by little, I even was able to kill Jason finally and get a few achievements, but sadly , the game is no more, as the servers have officially shut down. I was sad as I was planning on getting a couple more of the achievements, but I was just too busy and didn't have the time. In all, I had fun with this game, and appreciate what it was. Personally I would have rather had a story based Jason game, but this was good enough to warrant the hours spent.