The Texas Chain Saw Massacre game is a desperate scramble for survival

polygon.com:

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a horror classic, telling the tale of a family of cannibals who hunt and kill any unlucky souls who wander near. In the original film, there’s only one survivor, who escapes by a hair. In the upcoming video game adaptation, it’s possible for every victim to triumph and escape together… or they might all die a horrible, grisly death at the hands of the Sawyer family. Polygon was invited to a preview of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, where we had the opportunity to try both sides of the game.

Developed by Sumo Digital and published by Gun Interactive, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an asymmetrical horror game where four players take the role of Victims on one team, and three players oppose them as the Family. The game plays out in the iconic house from the film, which is stuffed full of meat hooks, bleached skulls, and bloody torsos. The Victims have a simple goal: survive and escape. The Family must stop them by any means necessary.

Each match starts with the Victims shimmying free of their restraints in the basement, a claustrophobic network of crawl spaces, tunnels, and slaughter rooms. Escaping the basement opens up the rest of the house, which is full of handy resources, like lock picks, health tonics, and bone shards that can serve as a handy shiv. Finally, once they make their way out of the house, the Victims have to navigate a wide-open, brightly lit farm. It’s all been lovingly reconstructed from the original film, and it’s genuinely unnerving to navigate.

Getting out of the basement feels like a relief at first, but it quickly becomes apparent that more room to navigate and more light to see with is as much a hazard as a blessing. You can hide briefly among sunflowers or bushes,