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Ash Williams is bringing the chainsaw and the boomstick to your living room this year.

Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games pulled back the curtain on Evil Dead: The Game during the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live showcase on June 10, 2021, dropping a full gameplay overview trailer narrated by Bruce Campbell himself. First teased at The Game Awards back in December 2020, the asymmetric multiplayer title pulls from Sam Raimi’s original film trilogy and the Ash vs Evil Dead TV series, and the new footage finally shows how the survivors-versus-demon formula actually plays out.

• The trailer premiered during Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live on June 10, 2021, narrated by Bruce Campbell, with original dialogue recorded by Campbell and other franchise alumni.
• Teams of four survivors — playable characters include multiple versions of Ash Williams, Cheryl Williams, Scotty, Kelly Maxwell, and Pablo Simon Bolivar — must manage fear meters and hunt down Necronomicon pages and the Kandarian Dagger to banish evil.
• A fifth player controls the Kandarian Demon from a first-person flying view, able to possess Deadites, trees, survivors, and even the classic 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88.

Four Survivors Against the Woods

The core loop centers on that squad of four, scavenging supplies across the map while keeping an eye on individual fear meters that climb the longer things go bad. The overview trailer shows the group splitting up to search cabins and forest paths for pages of the Necronomicon and the Kandarian Dagger — the two artifact types needed to actually banish the evil stalking them, rather than just surviving until the clock runs out.

Combat leans into both range and gore. Footage cuts between characters firing rifles and shotguns at swarming Deadites and Ash himself going hands-on with the chainsaw and boomstick, with dismemberment built directly into the melee animations. Saber Interactive is clearly building the survivor side around that push-pull of managing supplies and fear while Deadites keep funneling in from every direction.

The Demon’s-Eye View

The trailer’s biggest reveal is the fifth-player role: one person takes control of the Kandarian Demon, flying across the map in a first-person perspective that directly apes Raimi’s signature low-to-the-ground camera trick from the original films. From there, the demon player sets traps, summons Deadite hordes on top of the survivor squad, and possesses targets ranging from minion Deadites to environmental objects like trees.

The demon player can even possess a fellow survivor — or slide into the driver’s seat of the 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88.

That last detail is the one that stands out from the footage: giving the antagonist player the ability to hijack the franchise’s most iconic car turns a familiar horror-movie gag into an actual gameplay tool, letting the demon run down survivors who thought they were safe in the open.

June Schedule Context and Placement

The reveal landed in the middle of a packed run of showcases, arriving days after events like the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase had already dominated the news cycle. For a licensed horror game to cut through that noise, Saber leaned entirely on Campbell’s narration and the shock value of playable Deadite dismemberment rather than a flood of new mechanics reveals.

It also slots into a broader wave of asymmetric and co-op survival titles that have been chasing the format popularized by games built around open-world co-op zombie survival — except here the fifth player isn’t just an obstacle, they’re piloting the actual horror-movie camera.

As of mid-June 2021, Evil Dead: The Game is still tracking for a release later this year across PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC, with no firm date attached yet — just Bruce Campbell’s voice promising the Deadites are coming for all of them.