Early Access Hotfix 1
The first hotfix, one day into Advance Access and three days before the full release. Worth noting for anyone comparing launch-week impressions: re…
September 5, 2026
Unofficial fan wiki
Halloween: The Game: all 12 civilians compared, every item, and all 36 challenges
IllFonic’s 1v4 asymmetrical horror game launches September 8, 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. This site is the character-select screen as a queryable database — the four stats and signature traits side by side — plus what each item does, all four maps, and a walkthrough of every story-mode challenge. Sources are named on every page, and where the game has not explained something we say so instead of filling the gap.
- Playable civilians
- 12
- Story challenges
- 36
- Launch maps
- 4
- Release date
- Sep 8
Items are the most-asked and least-answered part of this game. Players list the brass lantern, the hourglass, the ice pick, the fuse and the road flare as things they pick up without ever learning what they do. Rather than invent effects, every item here is filed under one of three states — and only 3 of 8 are confirmed.
Ancient AmuletConfirmedNegates Michael's first grab and blinds him for roughly three seconds — no button press needed.Fragile HourglassTheorisedPlayers think it does something to Michael's cooldowns. Nobody has confirmed it.Brass LanternUnknownA rare item with no published effect. Named by players as one the game never explains.
Launch and Advance Access details
The post that laid out the shape of the release: Advance Access from September 4 at 9 AM PT for Digital Deluxe pre-orders, full launch September 8…
September 3, 2026
Progression and customization overview
The clearest official description of how progression works: four separate level categories each with their own prestige, a rollable perk card syste…
September 2, 2026
The locations of Halloween: The Game
All four launch maps in one post — East Haddonfield, Haddonfield Heights, Orange Grove Estates and Haddonfield Town Center — along with the named l…
September 1, 2026
Official Discord server
The developers opened an official Discord. It remains the fastest place to see a developer answer a question that the news posts have not addressed…
July 22, 2026
Orange Grove Estates revealed
A dedicated reveal for the affluent end of Haddonfield — the only one of the four launch maps to get its own announcement post ahead of the collect…
July 7, 2026
Haddonfield Town Center
The commercial heart of Haddonfield, and the map with the most named storefronts.
Haddonfield Heights
The quiet family neighbourhood where the 1963 Halloween night happened.
Orange Grove Estates
The newer, more affluent side of town — and the one map with its own reveal post.
East Haddonfield
The rural outskirts: a biker bar, a garage, farmland and a feed company.
Where do you want to go?
Loadout LabToolAll 7 civilians with visible stats, sortable by any of the four columns, with their signature traits alongside.Character database13Stats, traits, unlock condition and playstyle for all 13 characters, Michael included.Chapter challenges36All 36 story-mode challenges across 6 chapters, with the object and the Stalk tier each one needs.Traits & abilities24Every civilian signature trait in one table, plus Michael's abilities and all five starting weapons.Is it crossplay?AnswerWhy the store-listing shortcut everyone uses gives the wrong answer for this publisher's games.Why you can't buy it in AustraliaAnswerReproducible from the Steam API, with a control title showing the region itself is fine.
| PlayStation 5 | Yes | Yes — a launch platform. The official site links straight to the PlayStation Store, and a physical PS5 Limited Collector's Edition exists alongside the digital versions. |
|---|---|---|
| Xbox Series X|S | Yes | Yes — a launch platform, with its own purchase link on the official site. Xbox Game Pass is a separate question and the answer there is no. |
| PC (Steam / Epic) | Yes | Yes — same-day on Steam and the Epic Games Store. Steam lists Windows only: there is no macOS and no Linux build. |
| Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 | No | No. No Switch or Switch 2 version has been announced, and the word Nintendo does not appear anywhere on the official site — including on the purchase row, which lists Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Epic and nothing else. |
| PlayStation 4 | No | No. The PlayStation release is PS5 only; no PS4 version is listed or announced. The minimum PC spec — 16 GB RAM, DirectX 12, SSD required — is a fair indicator of why. |
| Xbox Game Pass | No | No. The game is on Xbox Series X|S as a $39.99 purchase; nothing from IllFonic, Gun Interactive or Xbox has announced a Game Pass release. Being on Xbox and being on Game Pass are different things. |
| Steam Deck | Unclear | Not rated yet. Valve's Deck compatibility report for this app returns "Unknown" — the game has not been through the Verified/Playable review. The minimum spec asks for a GTX 1660-class GPU and an SSD, so treat it as untested rather than as either a yes or a no. |
| Crossplay | Unclear | Unknown — and the store listing cannot settle it. None of the 21 official news posts mentions crossplay or cross-progression at all. Steam's category list does not carry the Cross-Platform Multiplayer tag, but that proves nothing here: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, from the same co-publisher, does have crossplay and its Steam listing is untagged too. Check in-game rather than trusting either. |
| Australia | No | Not purchasable on Steam in Australia. Querying the Steam store API with cc=AU returns no listing for this game, while the same query for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre returns a normal A$21.95 listing — so it is this title, not the region. New Zealand is unaffected and can buy it at NZ$60.99. |