Friday the 13th: The Game Reviews

Friday the 13th: The Game is ranked in the 19th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
6 / 10.0
Jun 7, 2017

Friday the 13th: The Game has a lot of potential, but is an incomplete game with only one mode e without the single player campaign. Right now is afflicted by many bug and glitches and it needs a lot of support and polishing.

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6 / 10
Jun 7, 2017
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Jun 6, 2017

If Illfonic and Gun Media can rein in the many issues seen in Friday The 13th it will go down as a classic multiplayer game. Until then, it's simply wishful thinking.

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4 / 10.0
Jun 5, 2017

Encounters between Jason and counselors should be the high point, but they're often just dull and repetitive

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6.5 / 10.0
Jun 5, 2017

There aren't many games that can offer a camaraderie aspect to the survival horror genre, and Friday the 13th delivers in that regard. It could certainly use a lot more fine tuning and adjustments, but for now, it delivers on a solidly campy experience.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jun 5, 2017

Friday the 13th: The Game is a fun but flawed experience. When it is on, it feels great. The feeling of hunting down that last survivor or dodging Jason and escaping at the final moment is tough to beat. However, the technical glitches and lack of launch content drag it down. If you're willing to overlook them, then you'll find an enjoyable experience that should improve down the line. If you're unsure, you should wait and see how it shapes up in a few patch cycles. Regardless of its flaws, this is a love letter to the Friday the 13th franchise, and it's a game that fans should love.

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48 / 100
Jun 4, 2017

A great opprtunity gone to waste beacuse of the lack of content, numerous technical issues and terrible servers. It offers great ideas, but they end sunk at the bottom of Crystal Lake.

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6 / 10.0
Jun 4, 2017

Friday the 13th: The Game has a very interesting formula, but it needs to be polished in order to be completely enjoyable. It features the essence of the movies, but it has some gameplay issues that need to be addressed soon.

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Unscored
Jun 4, 2017

Friday the 13th: The Game sounded like the wet dream for fans of the newly established multiplayer horror genre with its addition of items and more complex tasks, along the amazing Friday the 13th license. Sadly, nothing of these new systems improved the game in any way. Instead we´re presented a Dead by Daylight, clustered with repetitive gameplay, broken balancing and not working design choices, topped by a huge lack of content.

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GameSpot
Top Critic
4 / 10
Jun 2, 2017

A week after launch, Friday the 13th remains the buggy and sometimes-broken game it was on the day of its release.

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6 / 10.0
Jun 2, 2017

The cat-and-mouse gameplay is exciting and captures classic horror-movie moments – when the game actually works, which isn't often enough

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Jun 1, 2017

An absolute disaster. Ugly, boring, unfun, bug-ridden, and unimaginative, Friday the 13th is the clear frontrunner for worst game of the generation, and possibly the one before.

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IGN
Top Critic
6.9 / 10.0
Jun 1, 2017

When you're playing as Jason, this is unquestionably the best Friday the 13th game ever made. I really appreciate the genuine love for the franchise on display here. Hunting down players and executing them in spectacularly gory scenes is an homage that warms my lifelong Friday-fan heart. But the fun of its asymmetrical multiplayer-only action is heavily skewed toward Jason, which means you'll mostly be stuck playing as teens rummaging through drawers. Despite that lopsided gameplay and some pretty heinous glitches, there is some dumb fun to be had here – which is all the movies ever really offered, anyway.

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Eurogamer
Top Critic
No Recommendation / Blank
Jun 1, 2017

A thrilling and creative multiplayer horror, Friday the 13th's compelling emergent play is hindered by a half-baked launch.

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2.9 / 5.0
Jun 1, 2017

As of now, Friday the 13th: The Game is unique and has its brilliant moments, but it's not a game I'd recommend picking up. It can be too dull of an experience. I think it's mostly diehard fans who will enjoy this the most at this moment. Despite all of this, I could see myself revisiting this game from time to time with some friends who are in it more for a laugh than a scare.

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GameCentral
Top Critic
6 / 10
Jun 1, 2017

When it's finished this has the potential to be a classic multiplayer horror game, but the state it's now the original movies feel like they have higher production values.

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58 / 100
May 31, 2017

Atmospheric, but bugged and illconceived tribute to the movie, that would have been much better as an early-access game.

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PC Gamer
Top Critic
75 / 100
May 31, 2017

It needs more maps, but right now Friday the 13th is a gory game of hide-and-go-seek that's fun with funny people.

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May 31, 2017

Be wary of this game if only for its propensity to hook you. Jason has sunk his pickaxe into me, and he's not letting go, ensuring I will be playing Friday the 13th: The Game extensively for the considerable future.

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5.6 / 10.0
May 31, 2017

This isn’t the worse licensed game I’ve ever played, but it was one that I feel a little disappointed in. I had fun and I had frustration. Only time will tell if I re-visit the game and have the time of my life.

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