Friday the 13th: The Game Review (GavinGWhiz)
California Girls cannot save Jason this time. Hacked servers, dead community, no updates, insufferable TikTok memes. As you can clearly see, most positive reviews posted in the last few days are all some variation of a Katy Perry lyric or referencing Chad. All of the positive engagement is ironic or memelords trying to keep a good content train rolling.
Normally I would consider reviewing a game with 34 minutes of playtime to be irresponsible. Not with this train wreck of memes and slurs bandied about by bored teens.
Friday the 13th: The Game is currently experiencing a flood of new players due to a TikTok trend involving swimsuit-clad councilors dancing around incapacitated Jason Voorhees. Unfortunately, those videos are crafted in private sessions or on some sort of big custom game with pseudo-friends on console.
This game has not received an update in four years due to copyright issues and is officially dead in the water. All of the 34 minutes I spent playing this was spent server-hopping to try and find even ONE other server on a Friday night that wasn't the modded one with 20+ players in a map all at the same time, all with horrendous connection.
Don't let the Katy Perry memes fool you, this game is done. It's over. Kaput. Do not get suckered into buying an online-only game that does not have a functioning online anymore! Friday the 13th: The Game should not be listed on Steam for sale. I would even balk at the idea of it being listed as a free game.
There's thousands of people decrying the slow death of Team Fortress 2, a free-to-play shooter with tons of legacy behind it. This flash-in-the-pan Dead by Daylight-em-up was great in 2017. It's 2022, time to turn off the lights and let it die.
Sometimes, dead is better.
Edit for the LITERAL teenagers mouthing off in the comments: some folks are reporting more success getting into not-modded servers. The Twitch streamer who single-handedly sparked off this game's resurgence is also spreading misinformation about the developer taking a renewed interest and possibly returning to developing DLC. All of this is propped up by the $3 Steam Summer Sale price that has artificially increased the player count.
The night I played the highest player count at any one time was less than 500 people worldwide. The Summer Sale boosted it to 1,000 people on weekends at night. That number is already rapidly falling as the TikTok trend begins to lose steam and people aren't buying the game purely because it's cheap.
This game is abandonedware only kept barely alive because it's free passive income for Gun Media.