Horror Inc. confirms new Friday the 13th film and sequel game under development

At San Diego Comic-Con 2025’s panel dedicated to the Jason Universe Initiative, Robbie Barsamian, Vice President of Horror Inc., finally addressed the elephant in the room for fans of Friday the 13th. Barsamian announced that a new Friday the 13th “sequel game” is in early development alongside a new sequel film.

The Friday the 13th franchise had previously been on hold for 16 years, with the last movie hitting theaters as a 2009 reboot. At the SDCC panel, Barsamian addressed the audience:

“I can tell you that a new sequel movie and a new sequel game are at the top of our list. It’s where most of our energy is going right now, and I can tell you we’re finally in a position to deliver on that. While we’re not officially announcing with our partners today, both are coming. They’re both in the works.”

The 2017 Friday the 13th: The Game was an asymmetrical title developed by IIIFonic and published by Gun Media, where one player would take control of Jason Voorhees, while others would play as camp counselors, trying to survive Camp Crystal Lake. It was pretty similar to Dead by Daylight and helped kick off the asymmetrical co-op horror survival genre we know today.

The game garnered a loyal fanbase, selling over 1.8 million copies by August 2017 and generating $30.3 million in revenue. The game had an all-time peak of 16,096 concurrent players over 8 years ago.

However, legal problems caused by the franchise’s IP hindered progress when the original writer Victor Miller and director Sean Cunningham ceased content updates in 2018 and finally delisted the game on December 31, 2023, when its license expired. A year later, official servers were shut down, even as a fan-made mod, Friday the 13th: Resurrected, keeps the game alive on PC.

The sequel’s direction is still out in the wild. In a 2023 interview with composer Harry Manfredi reported that the franchise would be moving away from the asymmetrical format and shifting to “more realistic looking”, hinting at a linear, narrative-driven experience akin to horror games like Alien: Isolation.

Horror Inc.’s Jason Universe was launched in May 2024 to modernize the franchise across all media platforms. For now, no release timeline is known for the next Friday the 13th game. Legal hurdles seem to be out of the way, and fans are awaiting Jason’s return on current-generation consoles and PC alike.