Halloween: The Game vs The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Why these two get compared

Gun Interactive published The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 2023 and co-publishes this one, which makes it the nearest reference point for what a Gun-published slasher game looks like now. The development studios differ — Sumo Digital made Texas Chain Saw, IllFonic made this — but the publisher's approach to licence, tone and audience carries across.

It is also the practical benchmark for a question this game has not answered. Texas Chain Saw shipped with crossplay, announced ahead of launch and enabled by default across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, but without cross-progression. Nothing similar has been said about Halloween: The Game — and, usefully, Texas Chain Saw's Steam page does not carry the Cross-Platform Multiplayer category despite having the feature, which is why the store listing cannot be used to answer the question for either game.

One more difference is worth flagging because it affects who can buy them: Texas Chain Saw is available on Steam in Australia. This game is not.

Documented specifications

The Halloween column is sourced from the PlayStation game page and the Steam listing. The The Texas Chain Saw Massacrecolumn carries only widely-published facts about that game — we do not document someone else’s mechanics second-hand.

The honest bottom line

The useful takeaway is not which is better but what one predicts about the other. Texas Chain Saw is the most recent Gun Interactive slasher, it shipped crossplay quietly enough that its store page never reflected it, and it is $25 cheaper. If you are trying to guess how this game will be supported or what its unannounced features might turn out to be, that is the catalogue entry to watch — with the caveat that a different studio built it.

Common questions

Which is better, Halloween or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

We are not answering that. Halloween releases September 8, 2026 and nobody outside the studio has played the retail build, so a head-to-head verdict written today would be invented. The table on this page compares what is documented instead.

Is Halloween the same kind of game as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre?

Both are tag characters, but the formats differ — see the specification table for team size and the rest of the documented differences.

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